Manager - Category Management

2 weeks ago


Plainsboro, United States Novo Nordisk Full time

**About the Department**

The Finance, Insights and 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. Identifies opportunities for operational improvements and seeks agreement through consensus management.

**Relationships**

Reports to an Associate Director / 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:

- Utilizes knowledge of suppliers relative positioning and market trends and activities to build competitive advantage into purchasing practices
- Identifies, establishes, designs and shares best practices
- Influences key stakeholders:

- Collaborate and dialogue with users on system support and understanding
- Communicates to Line of Business approved suppliers per category.
- Conducts spend analysis and relevant analytical tasks to support and justify sourcing direction and related activity
- Develops and prepares summary reports and presentations as required
- 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 Novo Nordisk Supplier Diversity program and promotes the inclusion of diverse suppliers in all sourcing initiatives
- Manages supplier performance:

- Acts as a liaison between the line of business, appropriate internal stakeholders and supplier to ensure business objectives are met
- 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
- Benchmarks operational costs to industry standards and provides information and insights to the lines of business
- Develops supplier selection criteria and facilitate team members through a disciplined strategic sourcing process focused on maximizing total value
- Dialogues with suppliers to ensure optimal relationship with respect to product selection and delivery performance
- 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:

- Follows up on system usage and proactively ensures compliance to system
- Interfaces with the Novo Nordisk Corporate Procurement 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 sour



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