Senior Manager

Are you a visionary people leader with a passion for empowering and nurturing high-performing teams? Do you excel in direct procurement or strategic sourcing, combining a strategic mindset with the ability to inspire and guide your team towards success? 

If you engaged by the opportunity to be a key contributor for securing Novo Nordisk’s ability to deliver to patients in a time of growth and scaling, join our dynamic and collaborative team in the Drug Substance Outsourcing (DSO) department. Apply today and take the next bold step in your leadership journey!

The position
As a Senior Manager, your role involves overseeing the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) cluster, developing processes and capabilities to support the needs of the company. The cluster consists of category managers that together are responsible for outsourcing building blocks, intermediates, and starting materials to support the internal Yeast API production as well as specific outsourced biologically produced API’s. 

You will be a hands-on leader that supports and in some instances drives the development of category strategies, specific contracts, and safeguards the strategic relationship with our external partners.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and inspiring the team to maximize their potential, nurturing talent and driving change with a continuous improvement mindset
• Driving cluster's performance, ensuring contracting, supplier collaboration, and risk assessments are all managed timely and according to internal procedures
• Engaging directly in high-impact projects such as major acquisitions, new business models, or other category-related initiatives
• Building and sustaining strategic supplier relationships, conducting risk assessments, identifying opportunities, including deep supply market expertise 
• Acting as a representative of the cluster in various organizational forums
• Securing capacities to support Novo Nordisk requirements for volumes and robust supply chains are contracted

Additionally, you are expected to oversee categories within the API cluster with your deep understanding of market and business dynamics, leveraging your expertise to drive strategic initiatives aligned with organizational goals. 

With a strategic, enterprise-wide mindset, you consistently focus on enhancing our strategic capabilities while prioritizing quality in all responsibilities and securing timely execution.

Qualifications 
To be successful in this role, we believe you:

• Hold a master’s degree in supply chain management, business administration, project management, engineering, or another related field
• Bring a minimum of 12 years of experience in strategic sourcing, direct procurement, or category management across a large international organization 
• Demonstrate solid leadership and people management abilities, training, guiding, and mentoring high-performing teams 
• Showcase strong communication and stakeholder management skills, serving as a constructive sparring partner across the organisation
• Display proficiency in both spoken and written English

On a personal level, you are an empathetic and authentic leader with strong communication skills and a strategic mindset, effortlessly building trust within your team and bridging cultural and organisational gaps in a complex stakeholder landscape. A trusted partner, you inspire, empower, and energise those around you with your leadership and passion. You excel at navigating complexities, maintaining a calm, clear, and focused approach even in uncertain situations. 

About the department
You will be joining the DSO 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 team is committed to optimizing and strategically sourcing essential fine chemical compounds, excipients, and APIs for Novo Nordisk´s final products, securing external resources to meet the demands of Novo Nordisk's crucial medicines

Our DSO 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
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 details about the position, please reach out to VP Drug Substance Outsourcing, Uffe Holm, at +45 30 79 71 21.

Deadline
12 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.