New Product Supply Professional

Category:

Procurement

Are you passionate about resolving complex supply challenges in a dynamic and at times uncertain environment launching new products for the indirect benefit of millions of patients worldwide? Your role is to engage with existing and potential suppliers along with a variety of internal stakeholders to make ends meet timely, quality and regulatory wise by applying your exceptional collaboration, project and negotiation skills? In addition, you will optimise existing supply and documentation flows. If you see yourself getting energized by being responsible for critical inbound supplies and driving innovative solutions for Novo Nordisk Pharmatech? – then apply now.

The position

As New Product Supply professional, you will

• Participate in product development projects or products upgrades across the organization.
• Gather documentation to qualify new products and suppliers according to GMP.
• Handle multiple parallel scenarios of product implementations and/or process optimisations.
• Initiate, scope and manage change requests along with risk analysis and handle deviations.
• Develop inbound supply concepts ensuring an efficient, flexible, yet robust incoming flow at the lowest possible cost, not jeopardizing existing supply flows.
• Negotiate contractual terms, preliminary order forecasts and order sizes.
• Bring innovative process improvements and digitalisation proposals to the team and actively participate in or lead their implementation.

Your role safeguards the successful transfer from project phase to operations phase to ensure the reliability of the inbound supply. This requires contributing to improving and/or driving the setup via communication, transparency, KPIs, processes, SAP settings etc. Strong collaboration with key internal stakeholders including Sales, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Development, Warehousing, QC, QA, Process Support, Business Support along with several departments at Novo Nordisk e.g. Warehousing and Strategic Sourcing is a prerequisite.

The Department

You will become part of a team of 9 Inbound Supply colleagues, who are responsible for vendor management of all raw materials (chemicals and packaging) and process aids for production and CMOs. The team is likewise responsible for supply and qualification of new materials and/or suppliers in relation to product launches. The Inbound Supply team is part of the Supply Chain Management department covering likewise Warehousing, Indirect Procurement and Production Planning.

The job is located in the northern part of Køge, just 20 min. drive south of Greater Copenhagen area.

No travel expected.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we imagine you have

• Master’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, business administration, procurement, manufacturing, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of pertinent work experience in supplier management, supply chain management and/or production - including sourcing, supplier selection, negotiation, and contract administration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive process improvement initiatives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work efficiently in a team environment.
• Respectful communication aiming at finding consensus in case of colliding points of view.
• Strong drive and enjoying setting direction as well as being capable of prioritising tasks and planning ahead.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, along with experience of LEAN tools.
• Experience writing or participating in handling change requests and deviations in a GMP environment.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English

Contact

For further information or questions, please contact Helle Breinholt, Manager of Inbound Supply at +45 31 99 59 83 or HBIT@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

20 March 2024.

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 resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

Working at Novo Nordisk Pharmatech

Novo Nordisk Pharmatech improves biopharmaceutical manufacturing by developing and supplying innovative products used in the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. Biopharmaceuticals are medicines based on biological molecules, such as insulin, growth hormone and blood coagulation factors, that are purchased by Novo Nordisk and many other global pharmaceutical companies. Novo Nordisk Pharmatech improves biopharmaceutical manufacturing – and makes biopharmaceuticals cheaper to produce, thereby enabling better access to medicine for patients.

In total approx. 400 employees work at Novo Nordisk Pharmatech, and even though we keep growing at a fast speed, we nurture the ‘family’ culture for instance by greeting each other and respecting each other’s unique competences and contributions, to foster a welcoming, inclusive and enabling work environment. Novo Nordisk Pharmatech is likewise unique in the way that the entire supply chain is located in one place.

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.