Procurement Digitalisation Manager

Do you want a global career where you are part of our ambition to create world class procurement based on utilisation of best-in-class digitalisation?  We are setting the bar for innovation and utilisation of digital tools to optimise our global sourcing processes and use a variety of tools to dive impact and support our global stakeholders across the organisation. Take the opportunity to join our team of highly dedicated sourcing professionals. Apply now!

The Position

As Procurement Digitalisation Manager you will work as a sourcing specialist to maximise value creation and process efficiencies via our advanced eSourcing technologies. Your primary stakeholders, the global sourcing teams, will rely on your capabilities to develop best-practice sourcing processes, identify optimisation opportunities, and implement with clear guidance on next steps to support major negotiations with our strategic suppliers.   

You will get a unique chance to develop your procurement skills, use your project management toolbox to drive change and have ample exposure in a global organisation in a time where procurement excellence and digitalisation is high on the corporate agenda.

In this position, you will be part of Sourcing Excellence, a great team consisting of eight dedicated and diverse colleagues. The team is the sourcing Centre of Excellence in Novo Nordisk, driving adoption of our procurement systems, currently Coupa, continuous optimisations of our processes and shaping the digital agenda for sourcing activities globally.

This is a unique opportunity for personal and professional development working in a high-performance culture where we take pride in being a great place to work and delivering value to Novo Nordisk while maintaining a sustainable work/life balance.

Qualifications

You have completed a Master's degree (in Economics, IT, Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Procurement or similar) with excellent results. You have a few years of relevant working experience.

• You have a high interest in sourcing, digitalization, innovative technologies (AI), and high degree of curiosity for understanding stakeholder needs
• You are thrilled to work with sourcing and negotiation and help drive the execution of category strategies
• You are motivated by driving change and improvements involving global stakeholders at all organisational levels
• You are a proactive problem solver, can deep-dive into details and use data-analytics to drive recommendations
• You have a high level of drive, initiative and persistence and you are result-oriented
• You excel at translating various data sources into quantifiable and actionable insights
• You have experience with identifying, structuring, and implementing digitalisation and process optimisations
• It is a pre-requisite to work fluently in English

As a person, you are:

• Tech-savvy with a high degree of curiosity in improving business outcomes and processes via technology
• Able to learn fast and work independently with large data sets
• A dedicated team player who values collaboration strongly
• Structured in your problem-solving approach

Please submit your application, CV and transcripts/diplomas. 

About the Department

In Corporate Procurement we are 150 employees in Denmark and India, and globally more than 500 people work in procurement throughout the organisation responsible for approx. 75% of Novo Nordisk’s spend and for setting the strategic direction. Corporate Procurement is Novo Nordisk’s centre of excellence for digital procurement and sourcing processes.  

We pride ourselves on fostering a global mindset, dedication to business partnering and a relentless focus on creating rewarding careers for our people. Further, we manage our business by building strategies and executing improvement projects to optimise our processes. We work fact-based, are dedicated to collaborative problem solving and take active leadership for the initiatives we are involved in.  

We invest significant resources in developing our employees through coaching, frequent feedback, and giving challenging responsibility to individuals.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. That’s why we’re putting our century's worth of industry experience into a new venture – Obesity Therapy. And we want you to be at the forefront of it all. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact Manager of Sourcing Excellence Jeppe Nørup at jpnu@novonordisk.com

Deadline

2 June 2024.

We will review the applications on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.