Primary Packaging – Oral & Vial Team | Hillerød, Denmark
Primary packaging may look simple—but it is the first line of protection for Novo Nordisk A/S's medicines and the people who rely on them. As a Product Development Engineer Lead, you will combine deep technical expertise in primary packaging development with project leadership, helping to ensure robust, compliant, and patient-focused packaging solutions are delivered efficiently and effectively. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of oral and parenteral products while working in a highly collaborative and innovative environment.
Your New Role
As a Product Development Engineer Lead, you will play a key role in securing the technical development of primary packaging systems and components for oral and/or parenteral drug delivery. Operating within a matrix organisation, you will lead assigned projects in close collaboration with a PMO Project Manager while remaining hands-on in the technical development activities.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing primary packaging systems and components for oral products (bottles and blisters) and/or parenteral products (vials), including specifications, drawings, and test documentation.
- Translating regulatory and industry requirements into robust development practices, ensuring technical documentation is compliant, inspection-ready, and aligned with relevant standards and pharmacopeia expectations.
- Driving safety risk management activities, requirements engineering, technical troubleshooting, and systematic problem-solving across development projects.
- Planning and coordinating project execution by defining goals, managing timelines, resources, budgets, and ensuring delivery against agreed scope, quality, schedule, and cost targets.
- Leading cross-functional teams and stakeholders, supporting supplier collaboration, integrated change control, governance activities, and compliance with Novo Nordisk Quality Management System and Environmental, Health & Safety requirements.
In this role, you will also work closely with specialists in testing, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, and external suppliers to ensure seamless development, transfer, and implementation of primary packaging solutions.
Your New Department
You will join the Oral & Vial Team within Primary Packaging Development, located in Hillerød and part of Drug Delivery Innovation. The team consists of highly skilled development engineers, specialists, and project partners dedicated to developing and implementing primary packaging solutions across Novo Nordisk A/S’s portfolio. Together, Novo Nordisk A/S combines technical expertise, collaboration, and innovation to deliver solutions that support patients worldwide.
Your Skills and Qualifications
To succeed in this role, Novo Nordisk A/S imagines you have a strong technical foundation combined with the ability to lead complex projects and engage diverse stakeholders.
Novo Nordisk A/S is looking for candidates who have:
- An MSc or BSc degree in Engineering, Pharmacy, or a related discipline, combined with at least 7 years of relevant industry experience.
- Solid experience working with primary packaging development, regulatory requirements, industry standards, and GMP environments.
- Experience within requirements engineering, safety risk assessment, and product development involving oral, parenteral, and/or medical device technologies.
- Demonstrated success coordinating cross-functional activities, driving project milestones, and managing stakeholders in a complex organisational setting.
- Fluent written and spoken English, along with strong analytical skills, a structured mindset, and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
It will be considered an advantage if you also have project management experience or certification, knowledge of extractables and leachables, GMP material documentation, systems engineering, and experience applying Lean methodologies to optimise business processes.
Working at Novo Nordisk
Every day Novo Nordisk A/S seeks the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, Novo Nordisk A/S approaches Novo Nordisk A/S's work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward.
For over 100 years, this dedication has driven Novo Nordisk A/S to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join Novo Nordisk A/S, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.
What Novo Nordisk A/S Offers
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of Novo Nordisk A/S's culture and the extraordinary results Novo Nordisk A/S produces. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around Novo Nordisk A/S, while Novo Nordisk A/S's benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.
Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 DKK (DK), corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.
Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives, as well as other benefits.
