Logistics Area Specialist II

About the Department 

You will be joining Fill & Finish Expansions (FFEx), which is responsible for all major expansion activities within aseptic production, solid dosage forms, finished products, fill & finish warehousing, and QC across all production areas in Product Supply. The area is anchored in Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approx. 20,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 50,000 employees.

 

FFEx is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan, and build all new aseptic filling capacity across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients. We do it by rethinking our production facilities with the use of modern technology, as we are setting the standards for the aseptic production of the future. Facilities designed today which we will still be proud of 20 years from now. FF Expansions has a global approach, where you will be working with multiple sites and cultures across the world.

 

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

Serve as key member of warehouse, with a focus in shipping & logistics. Drive stakeholder management through process improvements & data analytics. This position is responsible for communication with 4PL partner, freight forwarders, customers & planners.

 

Relationships

Reports to Manager, Warehouse.

 

Essential Functions

• Acts as a process advocate, coordinating daily schedule with work cell leaders & support groups to remove barriers & enabling the process to run optimally
• Coordinate & execute shipments of NN finished goods & bulk to NN affiliates & external customers
• Generate & process shipping documentation
• Coordinate shipment planning with Kuehne & Nagel (4PL partner)
• Monitor team inboxes (4PL/other)
• Coordinate between warehouses & freight forwarders
• Coordinate with Local Service Providers (LSP’s)
• Analyze & forecast future transportation needs based on for future volumes, country transfers & new product launches
• Stakeholder Management:
  • As the position involves contact with numerous internal & external stakeholders, clear, precise, & polite communication is essential
  • Regular meetings are held with key stakeholders to ensure a good relation
  • Continuously communicate with stakeholders to ensure optimal handling & prioritization of shipments
  • Ask stakeholders for feedback to develop our processes
• Process Improvements:
  • Challenge & optimize existing shipping processes through a data-based approach
  • Drive projects to (re)define processes
  • Implements process improvements (including new processes that are driven locally & on a corporate level)
• Data analytics:
  • Independently analyze & interpret data/information provided by stakeholders & make independent decisions
  • Build data tools to support the ambition of automated flows
  • Analyze existing data to ensure a constant improvement of the processes
  • Operate with data visualization tools (for e.g. Tableau)
  • Create & maintain overviews & KPI’s to support management
• Responsible for investigation & solution of quality problems in warehouse such as: unscheduled events, deviations, temperature deviations, etc.
• Resolves/ elevates issues