Procurement Director LATAM

Are you an experienced procurement leader with a passion for leadership and driving strategic initiatives? Do you thrive in a dynamic, multicultural environment? We are seeking a LATAM Procurement Director to lead our procurement function across Latin America. If you’re ready to make a significant impact, read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

Position Description
As the LATAM Procurement Director, you will define the strategy and lead the LATAM procurement function with clarity and vision, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Drive Category Management and Business Partnering Focus. Foster a structured approach to category management that aligns with market trends, empowering our business units with the best solutions, suppliers, and optimised return on investment.
• Build Strong Supplier Relationships. Cultivate and maintain robust relationships with suppliers to enhance innovation and establish Novo Nordisk as the customer of choice.
• Drive continuous process improvements to provide agility in procurement operations
• Uphold compliance and business ethics in all procurement activities to maintain Novo Nordisk’s commitment to ethics and compliance
• Engage with cross-functional teams and global colleagues to share insights and foster synergies within the organisation. This role will involve direct reports as well as dotted line reports, creating a dynamic environment for leadership and collaborative success.

Required Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following qualifications:

• Extensive experience in procurement, including indirect sourcing, category management, and procure-to-pay processes and technology. Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage
• Candidates must have proven experience in leading procurement teams at a regional level within Latin America. Demonstrated experience with organisational design and development is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement procurement strategies that align with business objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management and change management capabilities.
• Business-level proficiency in English is required; Spanish and/or Portuguese are a plus.

About the department
Join our diverse procurement team, a group of seasoned professionals including sourcing and category experts and operational support functions, seated across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, and Mexico. We value collaboration, team spirit, and knowledge sharing, supporting each other across countries. We drive cross-affiliate projects, act as strong business partners, value supplier relations, optimise processes, and deliver strong results while maintaining an inclusive, collaborative, and fun environment. The position is based in Sao Paulo and offers a hybrid working model.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

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Deadline 
Please apply before June 1st, 2025

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.