Senior Network Strategy Lead

Do you have a vision for building the future Supply Chain for Novo Nordisk? Are you adept at connecting the dots across a complex organisation and do you thrive working closely with peers across Novo Nordisk? If so, you might be the perfect fit for our Senior Platform Strategy Lead role in Strategic Supply Chain & Design at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position

In Network Strategy, we are responsible for ensuring that a coherent network strategy exits for all production platforms in Novo Nordisk and the subsequent deployment of the strategies in Line of Business. We’re committed to support transparent senior decision making, which helps drive Novo Nordisk’s long-term ambitions of serving significantly more patients.

As Senior Network Strategy Lead you are responsible for the establishing, maintaining and deploying the network strategy for the Drug Substance area. You act as a trusted partner to senior management and collaborate closely with business support units, the supply chain organisation, production sites, Manufacturing & Development, and colleagues in the commercial organisation.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Lead the Supply Chain domain of expertise on the Yeast, mammalian, E.coli and/or the synthetic API platforms together with two close colleagues
• Lead the development of the platform strategy in collaboration with the relevant SVP areas in PS and Commercial and ensuring the supply plan (S/D) is aligned to the platform strategy.
• Act with mandate from Supply Chain to make network allocation decisions across products within the platform, in alignment with the Platform Strategy guiding principles and the relevant product manufacturing strategies.
• Assess strategic fit of available internal, external, and brownfield solutions, driving supply chain assessment as part of the PS due diligence of potential commercial assets impacting this platform.
• Govern the API Platform steering group to enable all platform decisions.

In addition, you will continuously identify opportunities for innovation and improvement to drive the platform, regularly lead project teams to achieve milestones and objectives, build strong relationships with key internal decision-makers and coach/mentor PMs or specialists across Strategic Supply Chain & Design, SVP areas in PS, CMC, and Commercial.

Qualifications

You are an ambitious and motivated individual with a master’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Chemistry or a similar fields. You can break down complex situations, problems, and issues into practical solutions via close collaboration with the team and colleagues around the organisation. You possess excellent stakeholder management skills, have an open and curious approach to your work and can clearly convey information and ideas to colleagues and management and can proactively support Supply Chain related decision-making.

You thrive in being a strong representative of your domain of expertise and proactively apply your knowledge to secure continuous improvement of our deliverables.

In addition, you likely have 10+ years of experience from working in Supply Chain, Manufacturing Development and/or strategic functions, which means you have a good balance between technical knowledge about API production and knows how to use that knowledge to work strategically.

Furthermore, you are fluent in spoken and written English.

About the department

We are a well-rounded group of colleagues with various educational backgrounds and skillsets. We are dedicated and ambitious colleagues in a positive and dynamic working environment, that focus just as much on having fun together as we do on running the business. We have a social committee for shared activities, offsites, celebration lunches and coffee runs. Our organisational anchor and deliverables offer a unique insight into the strategic outlook for Novo Nordisk, and a good platform for potential further development within the Novo Nordisk value chain.

The team is part of “Strategic Supply Chain & Design” and is anchored in the central Supply Chain organisation.

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 or questions, please contact Thomas Hjort Schiøler at +45 3077 7284.

Deadline

24th of November 2024.

We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.