GITO PI GBS - Agile People Leader

Department –GITO GBS Production Infrastructure

Does your motivation come from challenges and working in a dynamic environment? Do you thrive in an environment where close collaboration with key stakeholders and strategic alignment is essential? Do you have a can-do attitude with continuous improvement as one of your career objectives? Then we might have the right position for you. Apply now!

About the department

The position is based in the Production Infrastructure (PI) area, part of Global IT Operations (GITO) – a department with 400+ employees distributed across more than 25 countries, managing our IT Infra compliance, Cloud Services, Infrastructure Services, Operations, IT Support, Major Incident Management and Digital Workplace Services. The Production Infrastructure is an area consisting of global Product teams with highly skilled and dedicated employees, supporting production sites infrastructure services across the globe. We have a strong focus on teamwork and collaboration, and we work in a truly global setup with colleagues located all over the world.

The Position

As a Agile People Leader, you will be managing team of 20+ employees and attract, develop, and retain talent in the department with a strong focus of having an agile & growth mind. You will be analysing information and processes and developing more effective or efficient processes and strategies. It will be expected of you to empower and delegate employee’s responsibilities and track their accountabilities and share regular feedback. You will consciously create a workplace culture that is consistent and emphasizes the identified mission, vision, guiding principles, and values of Novo Nordisk. You will lead employees using a performance management and development process that provides an overall context and framework to encourage employee contribution and includes goal setting, feedback, and performance development planning. You will additionally be responsible for:

• Managing the overall operational, budgetary, and financial responsibilities and activities of the department.
• Ensuring realisation of the Production Infrastructure product area strategy for Global NN Organisation and support innovative initiatives with significant business impact.
• Ensuring full delivery management of the Production Infrastructure (Compliance, Surveillance, and monitoring operations) area in aspects of Managing, Maintaining, Operating and further Developing the Services to Global IT Operations’ expectation and Global Standards.
• Ensuring Quality requirement adherence in delivery being essential to the unit. To ensure that all employees are updated with the Quality, governing Policies, Novo Nordisk QMS (Quality Management System), Process adherence and especially in the GxP compliance.
• Managing third party vendors, contracts, budgets for the external resources and participate in audits, inspections and ensuring compliance of systems and products anchored in alignment with the IT Product Manager and System Management team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science (or equivalent) with 10+years in IT.
• 3+ years of experience in people management.
• Well versed with compliances and production projects.
• Good understanding on IT Infrastructure (Production) domain.
• Good experience in stakeholder management and vendor management.
• Solid knowledge on how to continuously evolve an organisational Agile mindset with experience in training, coaching and mentoring people towards an Agile mindset.
• Experience of working in service delivery setups having operations and development scope with internal and external teams.
• Should possess strong stakeholder management skillset able to handle communication and alignment with LoB (Line of Business) stakeholders, primarily Product Manager, Project Owners, RTEs, Scrum Masters and System Managers.
• Excellent writing, verbal, presentation, communication, and consensus building skills.
• You have high cultural sensitivity and ability to work across cultures.
• Knowledge on Agile principles and GxP concepts, is added advantage.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Contact
To submit your application, please upload your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
27 June 2024.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.