Key Account Manager

Are You Ready to Elevate Supplier Management in a Global Setting?, Do you thrive on building strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive strategic decision-making? Can you navigate complex vendor landscapes, ensuring capacity, capabilities, and risk mitigation align with business needs? 

If this sounds like you, apply today and become a key player in shaping Novo Nordisk’s packaging supplier strategy as our new Key Account Manager! 

Apply today for a life-changing career! 

The Position  

As a key account manager in FPMSAT Packaging Strategic Engineering, you operate in the space between NN corporate global supplier contracting and day-to-day vendor interaction in project execution. Your role involves building relationships with a selected portfolio of suppliers, enabling you to maintain an overview of supplier capacity, capabilities, and potential risks. Additionally, you serve as a point of escalation. 

Moreover, a key task is to spearhead the development of a best-in-class supplier management organization through continuous evaluation of the supplier landscape strategy against NN needs, while leading the creation of governance, tools, and templates. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the primary contact for assigned Product Supply suppliers, collaborating closely with Investment, Engineering & Sourcing (IES). 
• Maintain oversight of key packaging equipment suppliers, assessing capacity, capabilities, and overall performance to support management prioritization. 
• Provide recommendations on supplier selection during the project concept phase and support negotiations for new packaging and supporting equipment. 
• Conduct and facilitate business review meetings with suppliers to ensure alignment on performance, cost, quality, and sustainability. 
• Lead the development of tools, templates, and governance frameworks to enhance strategic supplier management and optimize demand-supply assessments. 

Qualifications  

As a person do you thrive with building relationships internally and externally in a global setting. You have solid business acumen, and you can translate complex matters to easy comprehensive needs.   

We expect the ideal candidate to: 

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, or a related field 
• At least 5 years experience within vendor management and supplier interaction in a global setting 
• Experience within engineering, sourcing, or otherwise relevant from a regulated industry e.g. pharmaceutical, aviation, etc.  
• It would be considered an advantage if you have experience with machine vendors and within a regulated industry 
• Full proficiency in written and spoken English.  

About the department  
FPMSAT has over 600 dedicated employees striving to be the best manufacturing development partners of medical devices. Our dedication is to build superior quality in our device products and processes. Our challenge is to execute an increasing portfolio of diverse projects in a complex, international, and highly regulated area.  
 
Packaging is a global department, located in Denmark and anchored at each strategic local site. We design and develop equipment for the packaging processes for the devices utilized in our final clinical and commercial products, the finished product. 

About Site Hillerød 
Site Hillerød is an innovative and fast-growing production site. With over 4,000 talented employees, we work together to drive change for people living with serious chronic diseases. The site is located in beautiful natural surroundings, and we offer a diverse array of career paths at all educational levels. Join our vibrant community at Site Hillerød and ramp up your career while we ramp up our production! Get to know us better - visit our Site Hillerød career page. 

Novo Nordisk Hillerød 

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 hiring manager Franziska Juchmes at [email protected]. 

Deadline 

28 February 2025. 

 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.  

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.