Scheduling Professional

Are you passionate about project management? Do you excel at optimising schedules and resources? We are looking for a dedicated Scheduling Professional to join our Project Office at Novo Nordisk. If this sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.
About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 63,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 170 countries.
The Project Office, KFA, is a dynamic and collaborative environment where we focus on driving cross-functional projects that cut across several different job families. We take charge of key decisions throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring effective use of time and resources. Our team oversees organising project teams, assigning r esponsibilities, developing project schedules, and identifying r esource requirements. Our department is passionate about mai ntaining high compliance with all internal and external regulations, ensuring the success of our facility expansion projects.
The position
As a Scheduling Professional at Novo Nordisk, you will play a pivotal role in monitoring project progress and ensuring compliance with regulations for facility expansion. Your main tasks will include:

• Regularly update and study project schedules to monitor progress and identify potential delays.
• Develop mitigation strategies for schedule delays and collaborate with project managers.
• Collaborate with project managers to allocate resources effectively, optimizing workforce productivity.
• Participate in recurring meetings with the project team and maintain project schedules aligned with project goals and client requirements.
• Prepare and deliver regular progress reports to project managers, emphasizing key milestones, risks, and action plans, while ensuring high compliance with all internal and external regulations and requirements for facility expansion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a scheduler or project planner.
• Possesses strong logical ski lls with experience in schedule analysis and demonstrates strong communication and social skills.
• Familiar with project management methodologies, scheduling best practices and standards, as well as an understanding of risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Intermediate level of English proficiency (minimum TOEIC score of ≥ 500).

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We're inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things - from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we're all here - to ensure that people can lead a life, independent of chronic disease.
Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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.
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