Supply Chain COE Professional

Do you want to be part of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) with a high-performing team managing the supply chain operations and strategies of a global pharmaceutical company? Are you a data-driven and a strategic-thinker who capitalizes on cross-functional collaboration to solve challenging supply chain tasks? If so, then you might be the new Supply Chain Professional we are looking for. Apply now!

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 63,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries.
As part of a globally successful pharmaceutical business, Novo Nordisk Vietnam is a high-growth affiliate with an exciting growth trajectory and pipeline in new products and therapy areas in the coming years. We proudly live our purpose of improving the lives of patients within the therapy areas our products treat and put both patients and people firmly in the centre of everything we do. 

The Supply Chain CoE organisation supports the business through conducting planning and supply chain activities ensuring that there is sufficient product to meet patient’s needs. The Supply Chain CoE Professional is a key member of the Novo Nordisk Supply Chain CoE team based in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, which supports 17 affiliates (markets) across the Region APAC and will report directly to the Supply Chain CoE Lead.

The position
In this role, you will be accountable in ensuring Novo Nordisk product availability to patients across country with uninterrupted, efficient and compliant supply in coordination with stakeholders. The nature of your work will be 80% operational and 20% strategic. The main scope of accountabilities includes but is not limited to:

• Operationally, you will be involved in daily activities relevant to forecast analysis & product replenishment planning, inventory management, Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) Operations, customer service & logistics, business support, and reporting and compliance. You will work closely with internal stakeholders in Finance & Operation, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, as well as with external stakeholders such as third-party logistic providers (3PLs), customers (Distributors, wholesalers).
• Strategically, you are expected to act as the key subject matter expert regarding process improvement initiatives to improve Supply Chain performance. You will develop standards around which others will operate, drive sharing of best practices, streamline inefficient practices, and teach and train colleagues on process improvements, tools, and systems. You will work closely with relevant teams to develop effective technology solutions, system configuration and training materials that meet the requirements of the strategic goals and objectives, among other strategic tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business Administration or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 year’s work experience in supply chain management. Work experience in pharma industry will add an advantage.  
• Profound operational & business acumen of supply chain collaboration in cross-cultural teams and cross-organisational stakeholder management. 
• Vietnamese native speaking with good communication in English. 
• Microsoft office proficiency and SAP knowledge will be a plus.

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. 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 energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can live a life of chronic disease.

Contact       
Please send your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). 

 
Deadline
27 December 2024
 

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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