Supply Chain Specialist

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Supply Chain

Are you enthusiastic about making a significant impact on supply chain operations while championing continuous improvement in a dynamic and high-paced environment? Do you aspire to play a pivotal role in shaping and expanding your responsibilities across the entire spectrum of the company's supply chain?

If this resonates with your career goals, then you might be the perfect fit to join our team in Sourcing Operations (SoOp)! Submit your application now and seize the chance to contribute to and shape the evolving landscape of Novo Nordisk's supply chain.

The position

As a Supply Chain Specialist, you play a leading role in driving continuous improvement across all departments in SoOp, consistently enhancing cross-functional processes, pinpointing bottlenecks, and working towards their reduction or elimination.

Some of your key tasks include:

• Developing and maintaining process-focused operations within Raw or Packaging value stream in SoOp
• Planning strategically and executing value stream mappings to tackle bottlenecks and address issues
• Coaching and developing local process responsibles in adopting a process-focused mindset, facilitating process improvement, and managing data effectively
• Seeking proactively creative methods to enhance process-focused operations, actively exploring new ways to drive continuous improvement
• Serving as a subject matter expert, providing expertise and guidance on SoOp processes

The primary workplace is located in Hillerød, where our main stakeholders are based. The office space will be in Bagsværd until December 2024, at which point we will move to Taastrup.

Qualifications

To be considered for this role, we imagine you:

• Have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, supply chain, or a related discipline
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of experience in improvement projects, including holding a black belt or solid expertise in improvement programs
• Demonstrate a track record of Value Stream Mapping experience on a factory level
• Showcase outstanding skills in stakeholder management and coaching
• Display proficiency in both written and spoken English

On a personal level, you embody independence, ambition, and structure. Your can-do attitude, coupled with curiosity and pragmatism, enables you to thrive in diverse stakeholder environments. As a team member, you play an instrumental role in fostering continuous improvement, demonstrating both a Lean mindset and a natural inclination for enhancing processes. Your excellent communication skills, combined with adept networking abilities, drives your enthusiasm to inspire, support, and consistently improve, always dedicated to your team’s success.

About the department

As Supply Chain Specialist, you will be part of the Strategy and Business Development department, which drives the strategic development and distribution of SoOp – that has the overall responsibility for the incoming supply chain in Novo Nordisk – consisting of 400 dedicated team members.

You get the opportunity to join a diverse and high performing team with a variety of backgrounds within project management, innovation, agility, digitalisation, and business intelligence. We use our differences to create novel ideas and high-quality solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the SoOp function globally. You will be working in an environment characterized by innovation, openness, and highly engaged colleagues who work dedicated to help us change lives for the better for patients around the world.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. 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, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact CVP cLean Partner, Michael Mortensgaard, at +45-30795165.

Deadline

03 April 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. Also, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV to ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process.

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.