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