Project Manager for Sustainable Use of Medicines in the Central Denmark Region

Would you like to help make Region Midtjylland's use of medicine more sustainable?

The medication area constitutes a significant part of Region Midtjylland's total climate and resource footprint. As a project manager, you will have the opportunity to work in an area where even small changes can make a big difference for both climate, resource use, and the healthcare system's overall sustainability. At the Center for Sustainable Hospitals, we are looking for a project manager who can drive and anchor the region's work with sustainable medicine use in close collaboration with the hospitals, the Regional Pharmacy, and a wide range of other partners.

About the position

As a project manager you will be a central driving force in developing, implementing and anchoring initiatives that reduce medicine waste, resource use, and CO₂ footprint without compromising patient safety, quality or professionalism. As one of two project managers for the area, you will play an important role in bringing partners together around the shared goal, and you will help translate sustainable ambitions into concrete changes in practice across the region's hospitals.

Your tasks and success criteria

As a project manager you, together with a colleague, will share responsibility for leading and coordinating a cross-cutting portfolio of projects and implementation efforts within sustainable medicine use.

Your tasks will include, for example

• Facilitate steering committees, project groups and working groups and support decision-making processes.
• Prepare status reports, decision briefs and reporting of goals, effects and results.
• Develop and follow up on measurable success criteria and documentation of gains.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and anchoring of initiatives in the medication area. In the first phase within the themes “Only necessary medicine,” “Use the patient’s own medicines” and “More sustainable administration forms.”
• Ensure progress, coordination and collaboration across the hospitals, the Regional Pharmacy, and other partners.
• Represent Region Midtjylland in relevant regional and national collaborations.
• Contribute to the development of new projects and initiatives within sustainable medicine use.
• Contribute to the general work in the Center for Sustainable Hospitals, including participation in working groups, external events, and collaboration with the sustainability consultants at the hospitals.

Your profile

You have a foot in both the project-expertise and healthcare toolkit and have a strong interest in applying your skills with a focus on the green transition of the healthcare system.

As a person you are structured and outgoing and thrive with a large range of contact at both organizational and managerial levels but also clinically close to Region Midtjylland's units. You understand how to succeed together with both internal and external partners and see diversity as a strength.

You work proactively and thrive with taking responsibility for processes and ensuring that the results reach all the way to the clinical reality at the units. You see that implementation in daily practice is the necessary and complex end goal that creates lasting changes for the benefit of both patients and climate/environment.

We emphasize that you have

• A healthcare background at the master's level or equivalent.
• Minimum 3-5 years of healthcare experience – experience in the field of medicine is an advantage.
• Documented experience with project management in a hospital-related context or the healthcare system in general.
• Experience with implementing new procedures and workflows within sustainability in healthcare is an advantage.
• Experience navigating multiple levels in a politically led complex organization.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build and work through relationships.
• Strong interest in sustainability and the green transformation in healthcare.
• Good analytical skills and interest in data, monitoring and documenting effects.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex knowledge into action.

Our everyday life

Center for Sustainable Hospitals is part of the Department of Purchasing & Medicotechnics, where the headquarters are located in the regional house in Aarhus N. You will therefore work in the regional house, which is located close to the light rail stop.

In the Center for Sustainable Hospitals we are a mixed group of about 20 employees who work across disciplines to accelerate the green transition of the healthcare system. The center is dedicated to minimizing the environmental and climate footprint from goods, equipment and medicine at the hospitals in Region Midtjylland and also contributes to promoting circular economy through strong collaborations.

We offer varied and exciting tasks, where you can largely plan your own workday. We understand the importance of balancing work and private life and therefore use flexible hours while there is also the possibility of telework.

Salary and terms of employment

Main workplace is Center for Sustainable Hospitals, Purchasing & Medicotechnics, Region Midtjylland, Regional House Aarhus, Olof Palmes Allé 15, 8200 Aarhus N.

You will report to the area manager of the Green Clinical Practice team.

It concerns a 2-year position at 37 hours per week, including paid lunch break and with a flex-time arrangement.

Your salary and terms of employment are determined according to the applicable collective agreement. The salary consists of a base pay possibly supplemented by function and/or qualification allowances, which are set based on the content of the position and your competences, experience and qualifications.

It is expected that the appointment will take place as soon as possible and no later than 1 February 2027.

Interested?

Send us your application via the indicated link no later than Wednesday, 18 November 2026 .

Round 1 interviews will be held on Thursday, 3 December 2026, and a potential round 2 interview on Wednesday, 9 December 2026. An initial round of interviews will be conducted at the end of week 48.

If you have questions about the job and its professional content, you are welcome to contact Sustainability Advisor Karin Aagot Møller Jørgensen at phone 2372 6578. Questions about the employment process or management-related matters can be directed to area manager Sofie Schousboe Laursen at phone 5123 8441.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Read more about the Center for Sustainable Hospitals here: Center for Sustainable Hospitals here

Read more about Region Midtjylland's sustainability strategy here: Strategy for Sustainability 2030

Read more about the Danish Regions' strategy here: Strategy for Green Hospitals

Become part of an exciting department

Purchasing & Medicotechnics is a region-wide unit with about 200 employees, responsible for purchasing, logistics and medical technology across Region Midtjylland:

• We handle all of the region's tenders, procurement agreements and contracts,
• We are responsible for goods logistics, from order to delivery at the right location in the region, which also includes the region's common warehouse, operated by a private partner,
• We acquire, operate and maintain the medical-technical equipment at the region's hospitals and advise the hospitals in this area.

In addition, we work for sustainable development of the region. We incorporate the region's goals of less CO2 footprint, less waste and more recycling into our tasks across all our areas of responsibility. Together with the Center for Sustainable Hospitals, which is part of Purchasing & Medicotechnics, we cover almost the entire task of Circular Economy in Region Midtjylland.

Read more about what it's like to work with us on our careers page.

Or get a glimpse of our daily life on LinkedIn.

As Region Midtjylland continuously implements savings and reorganizations, employees in relocation who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland, in line with the EU Transparency Directive for wages that came into force on 7 June 2026, is required to inform you of starting salary or a salary range for a position before offering employment.

You can find Region Midtjylland's pay scale for most professional groups and positions that exist in Region Midtjylland: Transparency prior to employment - Employee.rm.dk

Department: Purchasing & Medicotechnics

Application deadline: 18 November 2026

Location: Olof Palmes Allé, 15, 8200, Aarhus N