Supply Chain Planner

Supply Chain Planner

Are you motivated by ensuring stable supply to patients worldwide? Do you thrive in a dynamic, international environment where collaboration and optimisation go hand in hand? Join our Global Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain team and play a key role in delivering reliable and efficient planning.

Your new role

As a Supply Chain Planner in Global Contract Manufacturing (GCM), you will play a central role in ensuring a stable, efficient, and transparent supply chain across global partners. Working closely with Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs) and internal stakeholders, you will combine hands-on planning with continuous improvement to ensure products reach patients on time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering accurate forecasts and ensuring timely communication of demand to CMOs and key stakeholders
• Managing purchase orders, monitoring deliveries, and ensuring material availability aligned with production needs
• Maintaining and optimising inventory levels, including defining safety stocks for critical materials
• Identifying supply risks, analysing constraints, and driving prioritisation to mitigate potential disruptions
• Driving continuous improvements across supply chain processes in close collaboration with internal teams and external partners

In this role, you will act as a key connector across the value chain, ensuring strong coordination between production sites, quality, procurement, and external partners. You will also contribute to maintaining high data quality across systems and support decision-making through structured analysis and clear communication.

Your new department

You will join the Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Substance (GCM DS) Supply Chain team, part of Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply organisation. GCM is responsible for all contract and license manufacturing of intermediates and drug substances, ensuring seamless delivery across the global supply chain.

Our team consists of highly engaged and skilled professionals working in an international environment, characterised by openness, trust, and a strong focus on collaboration. We work closely with colleagues across Novo Nordisk as well as global CMOs to ensure the reliable supply of products to patients worldwide.

In GCM Supply Chain, we combine operational excellence with a forward-looking mindset, continuously improving processes and strengthening partnerships to meet growing demand and evolving business needs.

Your skills and qualifications

We are looking for a proactive and collaborative professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and enjoys working across cultures and functions. You bring a structured mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and the ability to build trust with stakeholders at all levels.

To succeed in this role, you have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in supply chain management, engineering, or a related field, with 2–4 years of relevant supply chain experience
• Solid understanding of supply chain processes such as planning, sourcing, or logistics within complex organisations
• Strong analytical skills and a structured approach to problem solving, with a focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Experience working with IT systems such as SAP (e.g. APO, ECC, OMP) and general data handling tools
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English

As a person, you are adaptable, solution-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. You demonstrate ownership of your tasks and enjoy collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk, you’ll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

Salary:  For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 570,200 to 838,100 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level,  location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Deadline:

19th July 2026

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.