Overview

Follow Your Genki to the largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO in Europe and in North America.

The work we do at FDB has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FDB and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing significantly into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States as well as expanding our manufacturing site in Denmark to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest network of end-to-end cell culture CDMO facilities in the world.

Our new sites will offer a network of end-to-end solutionsto our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US and in Europe. In addition to drug substance manufacture, our sites will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services.

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About This Role

Our new Senior Project Manager will report to our Sr. Director of Strategy, Execution and Digitalization and be responsible for project management of key strategic initiatives to ensure facilitation and execution across our Large Scale Business Unit.

As our new Senior Project Manager you will lead several key cross-functional strategic projects. They may vary in content and subject matter, but your ability to facilitate the right people to be involved, drive execution forward and ensure progress while keeping accountability with the sites is key for us to succeed with growing our business unit.

What You’ll Do

• You will be the project manager of several cross-functional projects, ensuring progress, involvement and facilitation through our Business Unit
• You will collaborate across teams and functions ensuring sense of ownership and followership in every step of the process.
• You will be responsible for driving and co-driving complex projects across functions, including the daily management of respective project teams.
• You will manage projects towards successful implementation of business priorities and act as a sparring partner and a trusted advisor to our project owners on both content and recommendations.
• Responsibilities include strategy development and execution, organizational development, data analysis, process optimization and executive decision support among others.
• You will be exposed to different organizational areas throughout our Large Scale function, which include commercial, Operations and Finance among others.
• You will build a strong international network and further develop your leadership skills, as well as your personal and technical skills
• We expect you to take an active role in the establishment of the new unit and continuous development of the department regardless of your role and tenure.
• You will support with reports, materials and content for leadership meetings as needed (including, but not limited to: StC presentations, ELT presentations, facilitation of workshops, conference materials etc.).

Who You Are

You are a very high energy individual, full of passion and genki for driving initiatives forward. You are a natural people-person with the ability to build strong relationships ensuring followership and involvement from all employees in the process. You have a natural project management mind-set and find it easy to break complex problems into simple and executable plans and steps. You are a strong communicator, able to explain even the most complex process and project easily to all stakeholders. You work at a high pace, able to shift and adapt quickly, and thrive in an environment of change and complexity.

Basic Requirements Senior Project Manager

• Masters' degree in Project Management or related field
• 15 years experience with Project Management
• Ability to drive large complex projects
• Ability to driving multiple projects
• Expert in PPT and Excel
• Being flexible to working in a global environment which will, at times, require meetings outside normal working hours.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in project management within the biotech pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience with projects within ESG or Digitalization a plus
• Experience with strategy development and implementation projects
• Ability to report results to senior management and/or customer
• PMP or IPMA certificate
• Experience from Management Consulting is a plus
• Change management certificate (e.g. ADKAR or similar) is a plus