Are you passionate about strategic sourcing? Do you want to make a significant impact in a global healthcare company? We are looking for a Product Portfolio Management Lead to join our AA&PPM, Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices team. If this sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position

As a Product Portfolio Management Lead at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Serve as the anchor point and one-point-of-entry in GSOD and SS IMS for PS/CMC (including LCM) Core Teams and relevant sub-Working Groups for Semaglutide and other products.
• Lead MSS (Manufacturing and Supply Strategy) development activities.
• Continuously streamline and recalibrate ways of working with stakeholders within and outside of GSOD and SS IMS to ensure appropriate contribution to PS/CMC (including LCM) core teams’ work within the context of organisational changes with a portfolio perspective.
• Comply with internal policies, procedures, and instructions as well as external regulations and laws.
• Participate in the continuous development of Strategic Sourcing – our processes, systems, and best practices.
• Actively lead the development of best practices and share these across the sourcing processes and categories.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we expect you to:

• Hold a master’s degree Business Administration or MBA in Supply Chain Management, business, or engineering.
• Have preferably 6 years of experience from working with strategic sourcing and a corresponding track record at a large international company/organisation.
• Demonstrate professional proficiency in English.
• Have Experience in supply chain and direct procurement.
• Possess strong analytical skills to gather and interpret data, identify and address issues and risks promptly.
• Apply critical thinking to solve complex problems and make data-driven recommendations.
• Exhibit excellent stakeholder management skills.

As a candidate, you should have the ability to maintain a holistic view of business needs and have development process understanding. We expect you to work with a positive, can-do attitude, and communicate clearly and engagingly.

About the department

You will join the PPM team in the Alliance, Acquisitions and Pipeline Portfolio Management (AAPPM) department. Our team is responsible for drawing and maintaining the External Supply part of the MSS (manufacturing and supply strategy) document, which provides the organization with direction and guidance for how we wish to manufacture and supply Novo Nordisk finished products, ensuring long-term strategic supply robustness. Furthermore the team serves as a representative for our strategic sourcing departments into the product portfolios, to ensure timely Category Management involvement into product development projects. We work with a broad range of stakeholders across Product Supply, and take pride in connecting External Supply with some of our most strategic development projects, ensuring timely sourcing decisions and value creation and continuous security of supply.

Our team is dynamic, collaborative, and focused on driving excellence in sourcing to support Novo Nordisk's mission.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

This position is a part of the NN DK Employee referral Bonus Programme

Contact

For further information, please contact hiring manager Kristine Sperrild Christensen ksdc@novonordisk.com or at +45 34488909.

Deadline

2 February 2025.

Please note that applications will be reviewed, and interviews will be scheduled on an ongoing basis.

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.

This position is a part of the NN DK Employee referral Bonus Programme

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.