Senior Category Manager

Are you looking for a position that enables you to make a big impact?   Are you passionate about procurement and able to transform strategic ideas into sourcing-related actions? If you have a dynamic and strategic mindset, then look no further!   Join our Oral Drug Product and Packaging Outsourcing team today.

The position

As one of our Senior Category Managers, you will have the opportunity to work closely with experienced colleagues and play a pivotal role in identifying/implementing strategic solutions within outsourced manufacturing and packaging services categories.  Your responsibilities will include driving strategic sourcing initiatives, leading negotiations, identifying, and partnering with external partners namely Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) within the Drug Product manufacturing and final Product production space.  These collaborations with external partners are of paramount importance to ensure that we deliver on our supply chain ambitions for our patients.

To be successful you will:

• Actively engage with various parts of the organization to gain a deep understanding of business needs
• Translate business needs into strategic supply chain and category-specific strategies, while identifying and partnering with external providers
• Analyze and understand market trends within contract manufacturing and CMOs role in the current Drug Product manufacturing space and effectively present results/recommendations to senior management
• Lead contract negotiations under pressure, and manage ongoing supplier relationships
• Ensure strong fundamentals in categories such as contracting, negotiations, supplier collaboration structures, and risk assessments

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine you to:

• Hold a master’s degree or equivalent in supply chain, business, engineering, or any other relevant field
• Have a previous experience within procurement/sourcing from a large international organization
• Demonstrate experience working in a regulated industry such as pharmaceutical, medical devices, automotive, health care, food, dairy, or cosmetics industries to name only a few
• Possess strong communication and presentation skills
• Be fluent in both verbal and written English

The ideal candidate will have a commercial and strategic mindset, with the ability to quickly grasp complex business models and industry dynamics. You can put the strategy into action by breaking the bigger picture down into actionable sourcing decisions, maintain a holistic view of the entire category, and manage projects with strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of numbers. Additionally, you should thrive in a multicultural and fast-paced environment, bringing a 'can-do attitude' and a healthy sense of humor to work, even under pressure."

About the department

Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices (GSOD) is the central sourcing unit in Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply division. Through collaboration with our international supplier networks, we ensure the availability of external supply needed to develop and produce products that help millions of people around the world living with chronic diseases.

Joining our team, you will be surrounded by colleagues with different backgrounds and levels of experience, allowing you to continue your development within the sourcing domain. In GSOD, we invest significant resources in developing our employees through coaching, frequent feedback, formal training, and challenging responsibilities. You will join an international team with a diverse group of people who are self-driven, open-minded, and have a strong drive to show that despite us being good at what we do, we can be even better.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information, please contact Helena Sjölin Lauridsen at +45-30754200.

Deadline

6 January 2025

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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.