Senior Manager, Supplier Management

About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, we are helping to improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. For more than 100 years, we have led the way in diabetes care. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

 

In NC, we operate three pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are responsible for fulfilling different steps in our injectable and oral treatment supply chains.  Our newer Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) facility in Clayton, NC sits on 825,000 square-feet of state-of-the-art equipment, and houses the Fermentation, Recovery and Purification in the production of ingredients for Novo Nordisk’s innovative oral products.  At API, you’ll join a global network of manufacturing professionals who are passionate about what they do.  

 

What we offer you:

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 14 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition Assistance 
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

 

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career.  Are you ready to realize your potential?  Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.
 

 

The Position

Lead, manage, and develop the team. Handle supply and supplier management of raw materials delivered from suppliers to NN sites. Identify and develop solutions to issues arising in crisis situations as well as during qualification and optimization projects. Ensure supply chain solutions that support the overall strategic direction of Sourcing Operations (SoOp), Product Supply (PS), and NN. Represent SoOp in the relevant stakeholders' groups in the sites they serve. Develop strong collaboration across different groups of internal and external stakeholders in a global context. Foster a climate of continuous improvement and innovations within own teams and across related organizational entities. Ensure team is inspection ready and work in compliance with relevant standards.

 

Relationships

Reports to Director.

 

Essential Functions

• Lead team by coaching, mentoring, developing, and overseeing daily activities of direct reports within the team
• Contribute to the successful performance of the team through close collaboration with Inbound Supply Management (ISM) stakeholders, taking on cross ISM responsibilities and projects, and ensuring inter-organizational collaboration across teams and departments
• Ensure effective supply management handling of raw materials managed in SoOp’s supply chain, delivered from suppliers to PS sites
• Act as SoOp sourcing representative in relevant groups as well as a SoOp representative in PS Core Groups to develop new processes for delivering the material and optimize supply chains
• Ensure supply chain solutions support overall strategic direction of SoOp, PS, API M1-US, and NN while remaining inspection ready and working in compliance with relevant standards
• Drive global sourcing of production materials from worldwide vendors to NN sites within PS and CMC on time, in full, and in QDC balance
• Ensure that each category has an appropriate operational governance model established, securing effective execution of projects & operational tasks, a model is in place to manage supplies, supplier relationships are developed with Strategic Sourcing and other relevant stakeholders
• Lead cross-organization optimization projects by driving and coaching the project teams and recommending solutions and best practices
• Ensure the team is operating in compliance with ES Quality Management System, relevant core SOPs, internal procedures, regulatory requirements (GxP) as well as compliant and rea