Regional and Site Excellence Partner

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Are you passionate about driving operational excellence in a complex manufacturing environment? Do you thrive on transforming strategy into action while building a culture of continuous improvement? At Novonesis, we're looking for an Excellence Partner to help shape the future of production performance across Region Enzyme Europe and Site Bagsværd.

The Excellence team plays a critical role in advancing Novonesis’ purpose by driving operational excellence, Lean capability, and continuous improvement across production operations. We work closely together through knowledge sharing, collaborative problem-solving, and a strong focus on global standards while adapting solutions to regional needs. As part of a global excellence community, you will help strengthen manufacturing performance and build the capabilities needed for sustainable success.

The Role & Your Impact

As Excellence Partner for Region Enzyme Europe and Site Bagsværd, you will serve as a strategic and hands-on leader driving the deployment of Operational Excellence and Lean methodologies across the region. Working closely with global, regional, and local stakeholders, you will ensure alignment between business strategy and execution while developing a culture of continuous improvement and high performance. This is a highly visible role with both regional and global impact.

In this role, you'll make an impact by:

• Representing Region Enzyme Europe in the global Go4Excellence team and ensuring a harmonized deployment of Operational Excellence standards, tools, and methodologies.
• Driving Production Strategy Deployment processes, including Hoshin Kanri implementation, execution follow-up, and leadership governance routines.
• Leading and facilitating Rapid Improvement Events and continuous improvement initiatives to improve operational performance, flow, and capacity.
• Assessing Lean maturity across sites, identifying improvement opportunities, and partnering with site management teams to implement sustainable improvements.
• Coaching leaders and teams while developing and delivering Lean and Operational Excellence training programs for new employees and leaders.
• Building engagement around prioritized improvement activities and sharing best practices and learnings across sites and regions.
• Continuously improving Operational Excellence systems and approaches to meet evolving business and manufacturing needs.

To succeed in this role, you likely bring:

• A master's degree or higher in a scientific or related field.
• 10+ years of experience driving Lean implementation, operational excellence, and sustainable performance improvements within process manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success applying Lean principles and methodologies to translate strategy into execution and deliver measurable business impact.
• Strong experience with strategy deployment, Hoshin Kanri, workshop facilitation, change leadership, and capability-building initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and communicate effectively across organizational levels, from shop-floor teams to senior leadership.
• Strong organizational skills, visual management capabilities, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. A collaborative and coaching-oriented approach, with the ability to build strong relationships and work effectively across functions, sites, and regions.

Additional experience that would be advantageous:

• Lean maturity assessments in multi-site manufacturing environments.
• Global manufacturing experience.
• Operational Excellence and digital Lean expertise.
• Danish language skills. A strong commitment to capability building and high-performance cultures.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to drive meaningful change across regional manufacturing operations.
• A strong global network of Excellence professionals.
• Significant opportunities to influence production strategy and execution at site, regional, and global levels for the world leading producer of Biosolutions.
• Professional growth through exposure to senior stakeholders and complex business challenges.
• A culture that values curiosity, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation. The chance to make a lasting impact on manufacturing excellence and capability development across Novonesis.

Ways of Working

This role follows a hybrid working model with a primary presence at our Bagsværd site and partial presence at Fuglebakken, København N.

You can expect:

• On-site work setup with some flexibility.
• Close collaboration with manufacturing sites, regional leaders, and global stakeholders. Limited travel within Denmark and Germany to support assessments, workshops, capability building, and strategy deployment activities in the region

Application deadline: 18 august 2026

Contact information:

• Contact: If you have any questions about the role or the team, please reach out to Head of Enzymes Europe, Martin Nørby, at MNNY@novonesis.com
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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