Senior Project Manager
- Sourcing
- Denmark - Hillerød
Novo Nordisk offers you the opportunity to join a professional company and a department with highly skilled and motivated colleagues. We have an engaged and people focused culture, which is strongly founded on the Novo Nordisk Way.
About the department
Strategic Sourcing is the central sourcing unit in Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply division, and we are responsible for the strategic sourcing activities related to Novo Nordisk’s worldwide pharmaceutical production sites as well as global management of suppliers. We organise our activities in sourcing categories through a strong cross organisational Category Group setup led by Category Managers and through R&D Sourcing Project Managers who liaise with Research and Development.
The Job
As Senior R&D Sourcing Project Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that the sourcing activities within R&D Sourcing are optimized and aligned with the overall strategic goals of Product Supply. As Senior Project Manager, you will drive and ensure the implementation of various projects to support sourcing, supply chain optimization for selected R&D development projects, while ensuring the right focus with respect to quality, delivery, cost and environmental and social risks. You will ensure timely involvement of the Category Groups in Strategic Sourcing. Additional activities include developing supplier strategies, selection of supplier’s, negotiation of supply and price agreements, making recommendations for In- vs. Outsourcing decisions. As Chairperson of R&D sourcing strategy groups, you will develop cross-organisational sourcing strategies for approval by key decision makers at senior management level. You will facilitate cross organizational collaboration with relevant stakeholders in e.g. quality, operational sourcing, R&D and Manufacturing Development.
The R&D sourcing activities in Strategic Sourcing are a strategic focus area where we are expanding our activities significantly; hence there this is a great opportunity to shape and influence the way we operate within this area and ensuring the right sourcing platform for our future products.
Qualifications
We are seeking a candidate with a M.Sc. and/or Ph.D. in chemistry, pharmacy or biotechnology, with +10 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry within drug development. Furthermore, you have significant commercial experience from complex sourcing projects where you have conducted large and complex negotiations and contracts in an international setting dealing with IPR, quality, supply risk and cost. You are experienced in developing sourcing strategies to ensure high level management commitment. You have a successful track record and documented skills in managing complex projects and overcoming various unforeseen difficulties. Experience with contract manufacturing and outsourcing activities will be an advantage.
You possess strong cross functional leadership skills, including an ability to work, build relationships and trust and secure commitment from both internal and external stakeholders. You must possess personal power to influence others and to retain focus while having a high level of execution. The job requires you to create a strong network internally in Novo Nordisk as well as with suppliers worldwide. You must therefore have excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, and be capable of working in a complex interdisciplinary organization. You must be fluent in English (both written and oral) and master Microsoft Office.Engagement and a positive mindset, combined with a willingness to make a difference and walk the extra mile are personal competencies needed in order to be a success in this job. You must work both independently but also within a team. You are innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic.
Contact
For further information, please contact Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire at +45 3079 9073 or Malene Lysbeck Mikkelsen at +45 3075 6019.
Deadline
5 August 2013.
- Sourcing
- Denmark - Hillerød
Novo Nordisk offers you the opportunity to join a professional company and a department with highly skilled and motivated colleagues. We have an engaged and people focused culture, which is strongly founded on the Novo Nordisk Way.
About the department
Strategic Sourcing is the central sourcing unit in Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply division, and we are responsible for the strategic sourcing activities related to Novo Nordisk’s worldwide pharmaceutical production sites as well as global management of suppliers. We organise our activities in sourcing categories through a strong cross organisational Category Group setup led by Category Managers and through R&D Sourcing Project Managers who liaise with Research and Development.
The Job
As Senior R&D Sourcing Project Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that the sourcing activities within R&D Sourcing are optimized and aligned with the overall strategic goals of Product Supply. As Senior Project Manager, you will drive and ensure the implementation of various projects to support sourcing, supply chain optimization for selected R&D development projects, while ensuring the right focus with respect to quality, delivery, cost and environmental and social risks. You will ensure timely involvement of the Category Groups in Strategic Sourcing. Additional activities include developing supplier strategies, selection of supplier’s, negotiation of supply and price agreements, making recommendations for In- vs. Outsourcing decisions. As Chairperson of R&D sourcing strategy groups, you will develop cross-organisational sourcing strategies for approval by key decision makers at senior management level. You will facilitate cross organizational collaboration with relevant stakeholders in e.g. quality, operational sourcing, R&D and Manufacturing Development.
The R&D sourcing activities in Strategic Sourcing are a strategic focus area where we are expanding our activities significantly; hence there this is a great opportunity to shape and influence the way we operate within this area and ensuring the right sourcing platform for our future products.
Qualifications
We are seeking a candidate with a M.Sc. and/or Ph.D. in chemistry, pharmacy or biotechnology, with +10 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry within drug development. Furthermore, you have significant commercial experience from complex sourcing projects where you have conducted large and complex negotiations and contracts in an international setting dealing with IPR, quality, supply risk and cost. You are experienced in developing sourcing strategies to ensure high level management commitment. You have a successful track record and documented skills in managing complex projects and overcoming various unforeseen difficulties. Experience with contract manufacturing and outsourcing activities will be an advantage.
You possess strong cross functional leadership skills, including an ability to work, build relationships and trust and secure commitment from both internal and external stakeholders. You must possess personal power to influence others and to retain focus while having a high level of execution. The job requires you to create a strong network internally in Novo Nordisk as well as with suppliers worldwide. You must therefore have excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, and be capable of working in a complex interdisciplinary organization. You must be fluent in English (both written and oral) and master Microsoft Office.Engagement and a positive mindset, combined with a willingness to make a difference and walk the extra mile are personal competencies needed in order to be a success in this job. You must work both independently but also within a team. You are innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic.
Contact
For further information, please contact Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire at +45 3079 9073 or Malene Lysbeck Mikkelsen at +45 3075 6019.
Deadline
5 August 2013.