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Novo Nordisk

Sourcing Project Lead

November 13, 2024

Sourcing Project Lead

Category: Procurement

Location:Høje-Taastrup, Capital Region of Denmark, DK

Are you experienced in facilitating sourcing projects and driving best practice? Do you have a strategic mindset and a passion for optimizing value, challenging ways of working, and making an impact on the sourcing processes for our direct materials?

If this sounds like you, we look forward to welcoming you in our Strategy, Sourcing & Negotiation (SSN) Co E in Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices (GSOD). Apply now!

The position
As a Sourcing Project Lead, your primary role involves serving as a facilitator of the sourcing framework and collaborate with category managers to drive sourcing projects, supplier selection, and go-to-market events. You will approach these responsibilities from a project execution, process, and training perspective.

Your success will depend on your ability to leverage your strategic insights and experiences by bringing value to category managers, and other sourcing professionals, decision making process.

Your primary responsibilities include:

Designing, anchoring, and promoting continuously our best-in-class sourcing processes and frameworks to be utilized by our category management teams
Coaching and training sourcing and category managers in the sourcing processes
Applying your business acumen and strategic understanding to challenge and help execute the category strategies
Acting as an ambassador of the SSN Co E across the unit and Novo Nordisk in general

This is a great opportunity for someone who already has deep sourcing experience and are looking to finetune their skillset and competences in a professional and engaging setting.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, we imagine you:

Hold a M.Sc. degree in business administration, supply chain management, industrial engineering, or equivalent
Possess a minimum of 6 years of experience in driving strategic sourcing projects and supplier negotiations, or alternatively consultancy experience
Demonstrate strong sourcing process understanding with the ability to challenge ways of working
Showcase a strategic mindset and an ability to quickly understand different business models and dynamics
Display fluency in both verbal and written English

As a person, you naturally take responsibility for driving sourcing and processes excellence forward, interacting with stakeholders at all levels. It is important that you feel comfortable challenging the status quo and can promote alternative solutions to the benefit of the organization. You are a natural anchor point in the department, coaching less experienced people, and your colleagues will naturally turn to you for guidance and advice. You communicate clearly and concisely and are comfortable in giving presentations and facilitating training, allowing you to translate complex topics to a broad audience. You like to impact decision-making through clear recommendations, always founded on solid data and analysis.

About the department
The SSN Co E department is part of GSOD function located in Høje Tåstrup, Denmark. We have the global direct spend responsibility managing a network of outsourced partnerships for Product Supply.

Our SSN Co E department is dynamic and diverse team of specialists in strategy, sourcing, and negotiation with members from multiple nationalities and backgrounds.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 61,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.

Contact
For further information, please contact Senior Manager Anton Larssen at +45 34483213.

Deadline
26 November 2024.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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