Manager for Packaging Material Supply Planning

Are you an authentic and empathetic people leader with a strong track record of leading teams in daily operations and through change? Do you have the ability to oversee team development and provide clear purpose? Do you have natural talent for collaboration and stakeholder management skills? If so, this might be the right opportunity for you!

Apply today!  

The Position  

As our new Manager for Packaging Material Supply Planning, you will lead a team of 14 dedicated planning professionals. Working closely with the team, stakeholders, suppliers and manufacturing sites you will ensure inbound supply of primary packaging for all Novo Nordisk manufacturing sites around the world.  This will be achieved by aligning demand and capacity, continuously optimising purchase processes and ultimately ensuring on-time delivery of materials to Novo Nordisk production sites.  

Your key responsibilities will be to:  

• Ensure efficient daily operations in compliance with GMP and corporate standards, whilst optimising internal workflows. 

• Employ problem-solving to locate and eliminate root cause of an error securing working process, when needed.  

• Lead and participate actively in board meetings and KPI reporting. 

• Foster a climate of high well-being and development within the team and across related organisational departments.  

• Building and managing professional and collaborative relationships, demonstrating robustness and the ability to communicate information in a way that is accessible to relevant stakeholders. 

You will become a member of a dedicated, trustful and ambitious management team reporting to the Senior Manager of ISM PACK. As a member of the Inbound Supply Management team, you will contribute to the successful performance and ongoing development of the department, through a close collaboration with your colleagues.  

Qualifications  

To be successful in this role, you have:  

• Master’s degree in relevant field.  

• Proven experience as a people leader including performance management, team development, and leading others through change 

• Experience in Supply Chain, Logistics and Planning  

• Operational understanding of manufacturing or operational workflows 

• Fluency in English.  

As a person, you have solid stakeholder management and communication skills, you are authentic and empathetic with strong interpersonal skills that enables you to build trust.  We expect you to be a people leader by nature with the ability to coach and lead others in a complex and global stakeholder landscape. You a skilled communicator, renowned for your strong interpersonal skills and ability to set challenging goals. Lastly, you have a high degree of independence and take initiative to drive improvements towards robustness and scalability.  

About the Department  

Inbound Supply Management is part of Sourcing Operations, which has the overall operational responsibility for the inbound supply chain of Novo Nordisk. We use our differences to create novel ideas and high-quality solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the Sourcing Operations function globally. We work in environment characterized by innovation, openness and highly engaged colleagues who works dedicated to help us change lives for the better for patients around the world. We would also like to inform you that on January 1, 2026, the team will change its location to Taastrup.  

Working at Novo Nordisk  

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap.  

Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing. 

Contact  

For further information, please contact Sanne Skræddergaard at +45 34488181. 

Deadline 

27 October 2024.  

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include your motivation for applying in your resume or 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.