Experienced Senior Lean Consultant for Project Excellence at Novo Nordisk Engineering

If you’re energised by driving lean transformation at a company level and you thrive on turning complex challenges into tangible business impact, we’d love to hear from you!

Who we are

We are a leading pharma engineering company shaping the future of API pharma engineering globally. Leveraging the expertise of 2,000+ employees across Denmark, India, and the US, we design, build and optimise pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are essential to the health and well-being of patients everywhere.

Our success is driven by passion, innovation, and collaboration — with our customers and across our teams and disciplines. If you share our dedication to a noble cause and our passion for API pharma engineering, then NNE is the place for you.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Lean Consultant to join our team of highly skilled colleagues in the Project Excellence department. In Project Excellence, we act as internal consultants grounded in Lean, supporting projects and leadership across NNE by strengthening performance management, structured problem solving and continuous improvement practices.

As a Senior Lean Consultant, you will work closely with project organisations and leaders to set direction for improvement initiatives, build Lean capabilities and drive performance. At the same time, you will take an active, hands-on role in facilitating problem solving and implementing improvements on our most critical projects, ensuring that ideas translate into real impact.

This role offers a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of leadership, Lean transformation and project execution, contributing to building a strong and sustainable performance and improvement culture across NNE.

You’ll be based in our Virum Office, but the role requires you to visit our project sites in Kalundborg and around the Copenhagen area on a regular basis.

How you might spend your days

As a Senior Lean Consultant, you’ll be:

• Helping the Project Excellence department set direction for continuous improvement and Lean in NNE, aligned with NNE’s strategy
• Building Lean capabilities by developing and embedding structured problem solving, lean project management and continuous improvement practices
• Designing and delivering training in Lean tools, Lean principles and Lean ways of working across NNE
• Coaching leaders and teams to strengthen performance management and Lean leadership behaviours
• Facilitating and driving structured problem-solving on major projects, using A3 thinking as our core approach
• Advising on consistent implementation of improvements, ensuring solutions are anchored and deliver real impact

Who you are

We care about who you are as a person. In the end, how you work, and your energy is what impacts the results we achieve as a team. As a person, you are:

• Passionate about Lean thinking and driven to create real lasting business impact
• Confident in engaging, challenging and developing leaders and teams at all levels
• Comfortable operating in complex environments, bringing clarity, structure and direction
• Pragmatic and execution-focused with a great drive to turn ideas into results
• A credible role model who takes ownership and leads by example

What you bring to the role

In all positions, there are some things that are preferred, and others, a bonus. If you do not meet all the qualifications listed below, you are welcome to offer alternative experience that you think would be valuable in this role:

• Extensive experience driving continuous improvement and lean transformations in complex organisations
• Proven ability to lead and implement change with measurable impact
• Solid experience working closely with senior leaders on performance and improvement agendas
• A relevant academic degree at Master level
• Excellent facilitation, coaching and stakeholder management skills across organisational levels

Life at NNE

NNE is short for Novo Nordisk Engineering. And for all of us who work here, NNE means so much more.

At NNE, you become part of a vibrant, project-based environment built on close day-to-day collaboration. The role is therefore primarily on-site, with physical presence at the workplace expected five days a week. Limited flexibility for occasional remote work may be accommodated in line with business needs.

We are, at our core, a people business and, as such, committed to continuously developing our people and the way we work together. We do not expect you to know it all from day one, and we truly believe a great start makes a real difference. We therefore welcome new colleagues with our award-nominated onboarding programme, supported by a range of in-house talent and development initiatives designed to support your long-term growth.

You can read more about the benefits we offer here.

Did we spark your curiosity? If you’re ready to join our passion, let’s hear from you.

Deadline of application is 13th November 2026

Questions before applying? Send us a quick text to arrange a convenient time to chat. Please Contact Director Daniel Iwarsson at +45 3075 7823 or Principal Consultant, Mikkel Bonne at +45 3191 8723 between 12.00-15.00 (12 AM-3 PM) on weekdays.

Please note:

• We only accept applications submitted through our online recruitment system
• You do not need to attach a cover letter, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV
• We invite to interviews on a running basis.

Fair hiring:

At NNE, we are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunities for all job applicants. To maintain fairness, we request that you refrain from including a personal photo in your CV.