Purchasing Supporter - API MSAT Business Support

Do you have a passion for procurement and finance and thrive in dynamic, collaborative environments? Novo Nordisk is seeking a committed and detail-oriented Purchasing Supporter to join our PS API MSAT Business Support department. This position involves a variety of roles that are integral to our operations, ensuring streamlined processes and effective stakeholder management. Apply today!  

The position 

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing local sourcing processes, ensuring compliance with Novo Nordisk’s standards, helping users in creating new suppliers, managing timely payments to suppliers, and offering support to our departments. We have an exciting position to offer with a great variety of tasks, ranging from: 

• Manage End-to-End purchasing processes. To act as a Coupa Super User, assisting users involved in projects with the Coupa procurement system, ensuring efficient operation and troubleshooting issues. 
• Ensure procurement compliance and quality aspects. Act as an SAP Finance Super User/ICE, you will support end users in projects related to SAP Finance, ensuring smooth and efficient processes, continuously updating your own skills in system and business processes, and keeping end users informed about new functionalities and system updates. 
• Support MSAT organisation to increase procurement understanding and know-how. You will act as a super user, providing expertise and guidance to MSAT departments, and track and manage follow-up on procurement activities, ensuring seamless operations. 
• Support MSAT departments and our investment projects with procurement and purchasing requests. You will also provide service-minded, professional service to ensure a positive reputation in project procurement and controlling, communicate within the organization reflecting Novo Nordisk values and organizational targets, interact with vendors, colleagues, and business partners to exchange knowledge and experiences, and represent Novo Nordisk in customer service contexts. 

Beyond these specific responsibilities, you are expected to maintain composure and effectiveness in a demanding environment, understand the importance of documentation, exhibit excellent collaboration skills and flexibility, effectively communicate and share experiences with others, adapt positively to change, and drive change processes.  

Qualifications 

To succeed in this position, we see that you have the following qualifications: 

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering or other relevant field. 
• Some experience from a similar position. 
• Understanding of purchasing processes and related tools. 
• Experience working with SAP, especially SAP MM, Coupa or similar procurement systems. 
• Fluency in English and ability to engage with stakeholders. 

You are self-driven, can work independently and at the same time you are a team player, always working towards reaching strong business results. You are able to establish strong professional relations, internally and externally with relevant stakeholders, and you apply a pragmatic approach to solving issues. 

Your structured approach allows you to maintain a broad overview while keeping an eye for the details.  

About the department  

The job is within the PS API MSAT Business Support department, located in Bagsværd. Our team provides essential services and assistance to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of MSAT. The atmosphere is dynamic and collaborative, with a focus on stakeholder management, innovation, and excellence. 

 
Working at Novo Nordisk  
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. 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 Senior Manager Maria Gullander at +45 3075 1258 
 

Deadline  

1.  April 2025   

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, interviews will be taking place on an ongoing basis throughout the period. 

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.