Senior Manager - Procurement Operations

About the Department

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals.

Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities.

Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions.

At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development.

Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

This position is responsible for promoting the utilization of the Novo Nordisk, Inc. (NNI) Procurement Methodology through Category Management and Strategic Sourcing activities.

This position will ensure the acquisition of high-quality goods / services at the best possible prices by negotiating and monitoring contracts and relationships with selected suppliers.

Will be responsible for ensuring that NNI will realize increased investment efficiency of monies spent and ensure fair value and service accountability.

Identified opportunities for operational improvements and seeks agreement through consensus management. This role is also responsible for managing procurement professionals who are assigned to category management and / or strategic sourcing roles within the department.

Relationships

Reports to a Senior Director within the NNI Procurement Team and will interact with all NNI Procurement Professionals, current and prospective NNI suppliers and key NNI stakeholders.

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates Market, Industry and Customer Understanding
• Benchmarks operational costs to industry standards and provides information and insights to the lines of business
• Identifies, establishes, designs and shares best practices
• Leverages knowledge of the industry and line of business to identify and incorporate procurement trends and best practices into strategies and tactics
• Influences Key Stakeholders
• Collaborates with others, to ensure they are involved in and can influence the decisions and plans that affect them
• Seeks out, builds and maintains trusting and collaborative relationships and alliances with others inside and outside of the organization in ways that accomplish key business objectives;

and helps others do the same

• Supports the NNI DSI Supplier Diversity program and promotes the inclusion of diverse suppliers in all sourcing initiatives
• Manages Supplier Performance
• Manages and monitors organizational compliance with all established supplier agreements.
• Provides Strategic Procurement Partnership
• Assists the Line of Business and / or Enabling Functions with developing business requirements across a specific category / sub-category
• Communicates to Line of Business approved suppliers per category
• Develops supplier selection criteria and facilitates team members through a disciplined strategic sourcing process focused on maximizing total value.
• Establishes, directs and leads cross-functional teams in various sourcing categories to identify, select, negotiate, establish and source preferred supplier contracts, agreements, leases, supplies and services
• Identifies, pursues and maximizes opportunities for realizing cost savings without sacrificing the quality, service and reliability expected of our suppliers
• Understands broad organizational perspectives and delivers messages and presentation to various stakeholders to gain consensus for strategic initiatives and ideas, in the face of complexity or disagreement
• Utilizes And Enhances Procurement and Sourcing Systems And Tools
• Collaborate and dialogue with users on system support and understanding
• Conducts spend analysis and relevant analytical tasks to support and justify sourcing direction and related activity
• Follows up on system usage and proactively ensures compliance to system
• Interfaces with the Novo Nordisk Corporate Procurement Colleagues to promote optimal use of procurement systems and ensure NNIs involvement in global sourcing projects and related efforts
• Partners with the Procurement team to establish company-wide procurement systems, tools, processes, policies and procedures to support and lead to informed, fact-based sourcing decisions

Physical Requirements

10-20% overnight travel required.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 3 days per week onsite in Plainsboro, NJ.

Development Of People

Supervisory. Ensure that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.

Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.

Qualifications

A Bachelor 's degree required in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or other related area; relevant experience may be substituted for degree, when appropriate;

advanced degree preferred

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and / or purchasing, including at least 5 years’ experience sourcing and / or managing non-manufacturing (indirect) spend categories, previous consulting experience a plus
• Ability to exert influence on the overall objectives and goals of the department
• Ability to multi-task effectively, complete work in a timely manner and work well with others
• Ability to navigate new category areas independently
• Ability to operate autonomously with limited up front information
• Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) and / or Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) a plus Demonstrated analytical, organizational, communication, presentation, relationship management and people skills
• Demonstrated leadership qualities with the ability to act as project lead in the development and implementation of projects, processes and programs Multiple sourcing category / group experience preferred
• Pharmaceutical industry experiences helpful, but not required
• Proficient with PCs, Microsoft Office Suite, Project Management Tools, Ariba or other eSourcing and contracts management systems
• Self-starter with a proven track record of delivering savings / value through strong collaboration with business stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of Category Management and Strategic Sourcing Methodologies, Procurement Processes and Practices
• Two or more years supervisory experience

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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290.

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