Supply Chain Project Manager

Location:

Bagsværd – Copenhagen, Zealand, Denmark

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Management & Executive Jobs

Other Industries & Skills: 

Manufacturing

Job ID:

131285738

Posted On: 

01 November 2024

Are you passionate about Supply Chain and thrive on managing high-complexity projects in an international environment? Do you aspire to see the tangible impact of your efforts and enjoy sharing your knowledge with your team to achieve success?

Then look no further – join us on an exciting growth journey, with numerous new products set to enter the pipeline in the coming years. Apply today!

The Position
As a Supply Chain Project Manager, your role involves coordinating and establishing supply chains for new Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), directly influencing the launch and delivery of our upcoming products. It’s crucial to establish a trusted and close collaboration, leveraging our business understanding to efficiently build a robust supply chain.

You will be responsible for the Supply Chain work package, reporting to the overall Global Contract Manufacturing – Drug Substance (GCM DS) Project Manager, in partnership with other product and production specialists. By utilizing your excellent stakeholder management and supply chain skills, you will bridge various Novo Nordisk functions to ensure the optimal setup for our new CMOs. You will also be hands-on, executing tasks or processes to support overall project milestones.

Some of your key tasks include:

-Developing and implementing robust supply chain processes in collaboration with CMOs and internal stakeholders
-Establishing effective communication channels and clearly defining roles and responsibilities both internally and with the CMOs
-Contributing to warehousing and transport strategies, ensuring they are based on risk analysis, warehouse space, and aligned with business needs for seamless system integration
-Ensuring the timely delivery of essential test materials throughout the project phase
-Facilitating a smooth and efficient handover to the Supply Chain Planner for the operational collaboration with the CMO

We are dedicated to continuously enhancing the professionalism of our operational practices, offering you the opportunity to significantly influence robustness, cost optimization, and complexity reduction within our supply chain.

In this position, you will gain broad knowledge of the entire Novo Nordisk product portfolio while collaborating with international CMOs. Internally, you’ll work across various departments, such as Master Data, Sourcing, Logistic & Distribution, and Quality Assurance, ensuring a reliable and efficient supply chain.

The current office location is Søborg; however, the department will be relocating to Taastrup in February 2025.

Qualifications
To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

-Hold a master’s degree in supply chain management, or another related field 
-Possess practical supply chain experience within a regulated industry 
-Demonstrate prior experience in Project Management, preferably in setting-up processes or standards 
-Exhibit fluency in both written and spoken English

As a person, you excel at cultivating relationships across diverse cultures, securing commitment from both internal and external stakeholders. In addition to possessing strong communication skills, you proactively approach your daily tasks and effectively manage your own time, enjoying challenges and adeptly crafting solutions to bring structure. You efficiently work independently, take ownership for your work with many simultaneous tasks and changing priorities. To excel in this role, you need to be agile and able to prioritize tasks effectively in a dynamic environment.

About the department
You will be a part of our Supply Chain department in the dynamic and agile GCM DS area. GCM DS is responsible for Novo Nordisk’s outsourced manufacturing and source Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and raw material into Novo Nordisk production sites across the globe.

We collaborate closely with colleagues in the wider GCM DS, CMOs, and several stakeholders from within the central supply chain organization. You will join an international team of 7 highly motivated and talented Supply Chain Project Managers who encourage each other’s professional development and value a positive and fun work environment.

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.

Contact
For further information about the position, please call Senior Manager Line Beck at +45-34488143. 

Deadline
17 November 2024.

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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.

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