Project Manager for Sustainable Medication Use in the Central Denmark Region

Would you like to help make Region Midtjylland's medication use 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 health service's overall sustainability. In the Centre 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. You, as one of two project managers for the area, 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 and 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 groups, 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 medicines 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 overall work in the Centre for Sustainable Hospitals, including participating in working groups, external events and collaboration with the sustainability consultants at the hospitals.

Your profile

You are able to balance both the project-management and health-professional toolboxes and have a strong interest in using your skills with a focus on the green transition of the health service.

As a person you are structured and outgoing and thrive with a wide network of contacts 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 on taking responsibility for processes and ensuring that the results reach the clinical reality in the units. You see that implementation into everyday operations is the necessary and complex end goal that creates lasting changes for both patients and climate/environment.

We emphasize that you have

• A health-professional background at master’s level or equivalent.
• Minimum 3-5 years of health-professional experience – experience within the medicines area is an advantage.
• Documented experience with project management in a hospital professional context or the health service in general.
• Experience with implementing new procedures and workflows within sustainability in healthcare is an advantage.
• Experience navigating at 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 green transition in the health service.
• Good analytical skills and interest in data, monitoring and outcome documentation.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex knowledge into action.

Our everyday life

The Centre for Sustainable Hospitals is part of the Department of Procurement & Medicotechnics, where the head office is located in the regional house in Aarhus N. You will therefore spend your daily time in the regional house, which is located close to a light rail stop.

In the Centre for Sustainable Hospitals we are a mixed group of about 20 employees who, across professional disciplines, work together to accelerate the green transition of the health service. The centre is dedicated to minimizing the environmental and climate footprint from goods, equipment and medicines in the hospitals of Region Midtjylland and also contributes to promoting a circular economy through strong collaborations.

We offer varied and exciting tasks, where you can largely determine your own workday. We understand the importance of balancing work and private life and therefore use flexitime while also offering the possibility of home working.

Salary and terms of employment

The primary place of work is the Centre for Sustainable Hospitals, Procurement & Medicotechnics, Region Midtjylland, Regional House Aarhus, Olof Palmes Allé 15, 8200 Aarhus N.

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

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

Your salary and terms of employment are determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. The salary consists of a base pay possibly supplemented with a functional and/or qualification allowance, which are set according to the content of the position and your skills, experience and qualifications.

It is expected that the employment will begin 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 .

First interview round will take place on Thursday, 3 December 2026, and a possible second interview round on Wednesday, 9 December 2026. A first interview round will be scheduled 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 telephone 2372 6578. Questions about the recruitment process or of a managerial nature can be directed to area manager Sofie Schousboe Laursen at telephone 5123 8441.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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

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

Read more about the Danish Regions' strategy here: Strategy for green hospitals

Become part of an exciting department

Procurement & Medicotechnics is a region-wide unit with about 200 employees, responsible for procurement, logistics and medicotechnical equipment across Region Midtjylland:

• We handle all regional tenders, procurement agreements and contracts,
• We are responsible for the goods logistics, from ordering to delivery at the right location in the region, which also includes the region's central 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 a sustainable development of the region. We incorporate the region's goals of lower CO2 footprint, less waste and more recycling in our task solutions across all of our areas of responsibility. Together with the Centre for Sustainable Hospitals, which is part of Procurement & Medicotechnics, we cover almost the entire task of Circular Economy in Region Midtjylland.

Learn more about what it is like to work with us on our careers site .

Or get a glimpse of our everyday life on LinkedIn .

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

In accordance with the EU wage transparency directive, which came into effect on 7 June 2026, Region Midtjylland is obliged to inform you of starting pay or a range of starting pay for a position before offering employment.

Here you can find Region Midtjylland's pay catalog for most occupational groups and positions found in Region Midtjylland: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk