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Senior Lead Category Manager

1 month ago

Taastrup, Høje-Taastrup Kommune, Denmark Novo Nordisk AS Full time

Are you passionate about procurement or direct sourcing, with the ability to translate strategic ideas into impactful sourcing decisions? Do you excel in a dynamic environment, skillfully navigating complexities and building strong partnerships?

If you are naturally curious about finding innovative solutions, driven to make a difference, and eager to guide colleagues while growing your potential, come join our Drug Substance Outsourcing team. Apply now

The position

As Senior Lead Category Manager within Drug Substance Outsourcing, you will be responsible for defining the strategy and securing supply availability within the chemically produced Small Molecules category.

Your key activities include:

  • Developing category related market insights to identify trends and dynamics, ensuring sourcing opportunities and risks are identified and acted upon
  • Owning and developing sourcing strategies that secure supply to Novo Nordisk in the short and long term
  • Sourcing and contracting items within your category to enable availability for manufacturing, ensuring they meet defined requirements in terms of quality, timing, and competitive terms
  • Providing sourcing advice to support innovation and decision making with a time horizon of up to 10 years
  • Collaborating strategically with key suppliers as well as building strong collaboration with internal stakeholders

You will be working with global Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs); hence you should expect up to 20 days of travel activities per year.

This position holds ample opportunities for personal and professional development and will quickly establish you as the go-to person within your area, giving you exposure to management.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine you to:

  • Hold a master's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, manufacturing, or a related field
  • Bring extensive experience in procurement or strategic sourcing within a highly regulated organization, coupled with a strategic mindset
  • Have a good understanding of chemical processes, ideally with expertise in small molecules
  • Showcase strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Be fluent in both written and spoken English

It would be considered as a plus if you have already worked within the pharmaceutical industry.

As a person, you have a commercial and strategic mindset, with the ability to quickly understand different complex business models and industry dynamics. You can put the strategy into action by breaking the bigger picture down into sourcing-related decisions. You can keep a holistic view on the entire category, together with your team members, as well as its impact on other pieces of the supply chain, while still being into the details of your specific projects. Lastly, you enjoy working in a multicultural and fast-paced environment and are always willing to share your knowledge with your colleagues.

About the department

You will be joining the Drug Substance Outsourcing department, which is part of Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices function located in Høje Taastrup, Denmark. We have the global direct spend responsibility of managing a network of outsourced partnerships for Product Supply.

Our Drug Substance Outsourcing department is a dynamic and diverse team of Category Managers with different levels of experience, nationalities and backgrounds. The department has direct impact for Novo Nordisk ability to supply to patients.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That's why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 60,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to call Juliano Cunico Schwab, Senior Manager of Drug Substance Outsourcing, at +45 34 44 66 53.

Deadline

16 February 2025.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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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