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Accept ClosePress Tab to Move to Skip to Content LinkSearch by KeywordSearch by LocationLoading...CategorySelect how often (in days) to receive an alert:xc3x97Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:Associate ManagerCategory: Digital & ITLocation:Bangalore, Karnataka, INDepartment: Validation Center of Excellence (CoE)Are you passionate about leading a team of validation Specialists? Do you have a knack for driving continuous improvements and innovation? If so, we invite you to apply for the Associate Manager position at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.The position
As an Associate Manager at Novo Nordisk, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead the team as a role model in all aspects of People Management and manage unit reporting employees. Drive continuous improvements and enable maturity of process and define and drive unit goals.
• Drive Efficiency, drive capacity planning, team performance management, productivity and innovation. Drive continuous improvements and enable maturity of process and define and drive unit goals.
• Resource planning, incl. participates in recruitment of internal and external employees and consultants. Supervision, coaching and mentoring of employees and acting as day-to-day manager of employees incl. feed-back and talk2Grow. Work with reporting manager for the overall motivation of employees.
• Build competency of Automation tools within Digital Data (DD) & IT to support the growing needs of organization. Spearhead Community of practice.
• Follow up on vendor deliverables and service targets/matrices and manage vendor contracts/service orders.
• As a CoE, Ensure continuous improvement of processes through process reviews and reusability of assets.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Bachelors or Masters in relevant field with minimum 10+ years in the IT or equivalent industry.
• Minimum 2+ years of people management experience within pharmaceutical or other relevant industry, including hiring, appraising and development responsibility of people.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in managing Validation deliverables in service level-based setup.
• Proven management skills in quality as well as validation and compliance activities and Global Stakeholder Management in Pharmaceutical field and expertise in SDLC and STLC.
• Knowledge of and experience with regulatory requirements (e.g., GMP, 21 CFR Part 11), GxP, self-driven to ensure that the IT systems will pass inspections from the authorities without problems.
• Should be able to effectively manage employee utilization and maximum efficiency with right balance on employee engagement, coach and develop employees.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, communication and collaboration skills and ability to represent NN in relation with users and external stakeholders.

About the department
Validation CoE is the unit responsible for validation and qualification of various systems, applications and infrastructure in different business areas. These systems are used on a local, regional, and global scale by many areas of the business, including Sales and Marketing, Production sites etc. and are critical to the execution of key business process such as development, manufacturing, sales, finance, etc. This unit is responsible for validation these systems/ Qualification of underlying infrastructure and maintaining the systems in the validated state throughout in its operation.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
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Apply Now!Deadline
8 April 2025.Disclaimer
It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment process.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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