Senior Process Excellence Professional - Procurement for Manufacturing
Job description
Senior Process Excellence Professional – Procurement for Manufacturing
Department: Supply Chain & LCM Location: Høje Taastrup, Denmark, Onsite
Your impact begins here
Join us as an Area Process Manager for our Procurement for Manufacturing process and help translate corporate process direction into ways of working that are clear, compliant and effective across Supply Chain & LCM.
You will take ownership of how the process is governed and continuously improved within your area, working across functions and organisational levels to strengthen alignment, decision-making and execution.
Your first priorities will be to establish a strong process network across the Area, improve how process information and decisions flow through the organisation, and bring overdue process and document reviews back on track. Over time, your success will be reflected in a Procurement for Manufacturing process that is easier to navigate, remains fit for purpose and enables the organisation to work compliantly and effectively.
What you’ll bring
You bring the experience and judgement to take ownership of a complex process area while working across organisational boundaries.
- At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in a GMP-regulated environment, including significant experience with process management, process governance or end-to-end process ownership.
- Proven experience leading complex cross-functional processes and influencing stakeholders across organisational levels without formal authority.
- Strong understanding of GMP and quality requirements, with the ability to translate regulatory and business requirements into clear, workable processes.
- Experience driving process improvements and organisational change, including challenging existing ways of working and making decisions within your mandate.
- A working style with a can-do-attitude and natural focus of challenging status quo.
- The ability to move between strategic direction and detailed process content, understanding when precision matters while keeping sight of the broader business need.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- A relevant academic degree within pharmacy, engineering, science or another relevant discipline.
Useful, but not essential: Experience within supply chain, procurement, supplier management or direct procurement in the pharmaceutical industry.
What you’ll do
As Area Process Manager, you will take ownership of how the corporate Procurement for Manufacturing process is translated, governed and continuously improved across Supply Chain & LCM.
You will:
- Lead the Procurement for Manufacturing process agenda across your area, translating corporate strategy and requirements into clear priorities and effective ways of working.
- Shape and continuously improve the process within your mandate, ensuring it remains compliant, fit for purpose and relevant to the needs of one of its key user areas.
- Build and lead a strong process network across functions and organisational levels, creating effective information flow and alignment between process responsibles, Area stakeholders and the corporate process organisation.
- Make and drive Area-level process decisions, challenging existing practices and escalating issues where broader corporate action is required.
- Represent the Area in corporate process discussions, bringing insights, risks and improvement opportunities from the business into the wider Procurement for Manufacturing agenda.
- Lead process reviews and improvements across documentation, change requests and related quality activities, ensuring changes translate into sustainable ways of working.
- Drive adoption of process changes through clear communication, stakeholder engagement and change management.
- Provide process leadership during relevant audits and inspections and contribute to training and capability building across the organisation.
Who you’ll work with
You will join a quality-focused team within Supply Chain & LCM, where colleagues work across supplier quality, training and process management.
Your closest partner will be the Novo Nordisk Process Manager responsible for the overall Procurement for Manufacturing process strategy. You will also collaborate with process responsibles, quality colleagues, procurement and supply chain stakeholders, management teams and Area Process Managers across the organisation.
The role has a global perspective, with stakeholders and process users across Novo Nordisk.
What you can expect here
You will step into a role with real ownership and the mandate to shape how an important corporate process works within one of its key user areas.
You will have experienced colleagues around you to collaborate and spar with, while being trusted to make decisions within your area. The role gives you the opportunity to deepen your process expertise, broaden your organisational perspective and create improvements across functions and geographies.
Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 651,000.00 to 956,900.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.
The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge and relevant experience.
Incentives and
Benefits
The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.
Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.
Start now
If you are ready to combine process expertise, quality understanding and stakeholder leadership to create stronger ways of working, apply for the Senior Process Excellence Professional – Procurement for Manufacturing position by October 20 - 2026.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
Skills mentioned
We are a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. Our story began over 100 years ago when two small Danish companies started producing the revolutionary new drug, insulin, which had just been discovered by Canadian scientists. These companies, Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium and Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium, were established by individuals driven by a common goal: to make life-saving insulin available to people with diabetes in Denmark and beyond. August Krogh, a Nobel laureate, and his wife Marie, a physician whose own diabetes fueled their quest, played a pivotal role in bringing insulin production to Denmark, leading to the founding of Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium in 1923. Shortly after, in 1925, the Pedersen brothers, former Nordisk employees, established Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium, creating a dynamic of competition and innovation that would characterize the Danish pharmaceutical landscape for decades. After years of parallel growth and groundbreaking research, these two entities merged in 1989 to form Novo Nordisk A/S, a company that has since expanded rapidly. Today, we are a world leader not only in diabetes care but also in obesity care, haemophilia care, and therapies for rare endocrine disorders. Our commitment extends beyond developing innovative medicines; we strive to make them accessible to patients worldwide. We employ more than 77,000 people across 80 offices globally and market our products in approximately 170 countries. The Novo Nordisk Way, our set of guiding principles, is rooted in the vision of our founders and continues to inspire our thousands of colleagues. We are dedicated to applying our passion, skills, and commitment to defeat serious chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people and represent some of the most urgent global health challenges. Our U.S. headquarters is located in Plainsboro, New Jersey, playing a vital role in the life sciences industry through sales, marketing, and clinical trial management for all Novo Nordisk U.S. products. We are also significantly investing in manufacturing capabilities, including a $4.1 billion expansion in North Carolina, to meet the growing demand for our diabetes and obesity medications.
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