Purchasing Technician

Are you eager to use your strong purchasing skills to support the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients? Do you easily communicate with all types of people? Do you want to work at Novo Nordisk, where your work improves the lives of people living with chronic diseases worldwide?
 
Apply today for a life-changing career!
 
The Position
As our new Purchasing Technician your primary tasks will be to manage planned and ad hoc purchases within indirect spend, primarily for skilled workers and project managers.

Your key responsibilities will include:
•    Purchasing Management: Manage planned and ad hoc purchases, create purchase orders, retrieve offers from vendors, and keep track of financial commitments.
•    Compliance & Systems: Ensure procurement compliance, handle service level agreements, invoice control, and payment to suppliers.
•    Communication & Stakeholder Management: Communicate across the organization with skilled workers, operators, project managers, chemists, and managers. You will also communicate with external vendors, both in Denmark and abroad.

You will secure procurement compliance and handle service level agreements, invoice control and payment to suppliers, sourcing events, and be a super user in our purchasing system, Coupa. We offer training for the right candidate if the drive and motivation to become fully familiar with the systems are demonstrated.

Qualifications
We realize that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:
•    Experience working with purchasing and/or education within this field. Experience with SAP and Coupa is a plus.
•    Fluency in English and good communication skills in Danish.
•    Experience from the pharmaceutical industry and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is an advantage.
 
As a person, you are self-driven, eager to learn, and capable of offering a high level of service. Solid business understanding and ability to adjust priorities accordingly. Structured with a solid sense of order. Strong communication skills for effective stakeholder management.

About the Department
API M4 (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing 4) is part of Product Supply, Quality & IT. At our sites in Gentofte, Hillerød, and Kalundborg, we are more than 600 colleagues working together to manufacture the API used in life-saving medicine for people living with serious chronic diseases. We work with advanced chemical and biotechnological processes such as cultivation, recovery, purification, and freeze-drying. We bring value to our patients by providing the cleanest possible high-quality API made in accordance with GMP while constantly optimizing our processes.

We lead projects within building and facility, Compliance and capacity expansion, Environment, Health, and Safety. Our base is in Hillerød. 

Novo Nordisk Hillerød
At Novo Nordisk Site Hillerød, we are around 4,000 employees developing, producing, and filling injection pens to help patients around the world living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Here we also house a large factory dedicated to the production of life-saving medicine for patients with rare diseases.

At Site Hillerød we employe a diverse range of talent working across the value chain, and we are growing fast. In fact, we are one of the most rapidly expanding sites in Denmark. For this reason, we have many exciting job opportunities and therefore we are continuously looking for new talented colleagues. Join us and become a part of extraordinary teams implementing new technologies to take our production to new heights and serve even more patients.

The site is located in beautiful surroundings and offers good transportation options from Copenhagen, Hillerød, and the rest of North Zealand. 

Currently, we are hiring many new colleagues in various engineering roles, including mechanical, automation, robotics, IT, validation, processes, manufacturing and much more. Also, we are looking for process operators, electricians, mechanics, technicians, project managers, associate managers, and pharmacists or similar background.

Now is an extremely exciting time to join, as we are on an unprecedented growth journey and are serving more patients now than ever. Site Hillerød has a critical role to play in empowering Novo Nordisk to meet the needs of our patients now and in the future. Join us on this journey!

Join us as we shape the future of pharma production and contribute to our purpose of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases!

Get to know us better - meet us at www.novonordisk.com/site-hilleroed-careers 

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. 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, through manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

Contact
For further information about the position, please contact Jeanette Stentoft Becker, Associate Manager & PPM, at +45 30 75 20 18.

Deadline
The 6th of April 2025.

We care about your motivation, but 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 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.