Sustainability Manager

Do you have a strong passion for sustainability, a business-oriented mindset, and the ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders? Are you eager to use your skills to help us to ensure positive social and environmental impact in our supply chains?

Then apply now, as you might be the one we are looking for to join our Risk & Supplier Sustainability department and to contribute to our ongoing efforts to meet the sustainability aspirations of Novo Nordisk!

The position

One of our top priorities across the strategic sourcing discipline areas, Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices (GSOD) and Strategic Sourcing Inbound Materials & Services (SSIMS), is to develop our specialist perspective on supplier sustainability, and within this topic, engage with stakeholders and develop data management excellence across the units.

As our Sustainability Manager, you partner closely with your colleagues in a Sustainability and Risk Management advisory team of 8 people, who together are setting the direction for the sourcing units’ work with suppliers on the sustainability agenda.

You will be engaged in various initiatives related to our environmental responsibilities in the collaboration with our suppliers, where priorities are driven by ambitious internal and external target setting and commitments on sustainability. To deliver on priorities, you collaborate closely with a diverse set of stakeholders across sourcing units, suppliers, and corporate sustainability functions.

Depending on your skills and preferences, your key tasks involve:

• Developing processes, roles, and responsibilities for working with suppliers on sustainability, including strategic direction, setting expectations, and oversight
• Providing sustainability insights to category managers and negotiators regarding suppliers and raw materials
• Assessing impacts and best practices to ensure compliance with upcoming sustainability legislative frameworks
• Defining and implementing relevant sustainability data points and progress tracking on corporate scope 3 targets
• Driving capability building and creating communication materials for both internal and external use

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we imagine you to:

• Hold a master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field, e.g. sustainability, supply chain, procurement, business, or engineering
• Possess practical experience in sustainability or procurement project management, supply chain, or business development, ideally in an international setting
• Demonstrate a strong passion for sustainability in a corporate context, along with  knowledge of sustainability frameworks, such as SBTI
• Display fluency in both written and spoken English

As a person, you possess an analytical mindset and a strong passion for structure, along with adept stakeholder management skills, both internally and with suppliers, and a clear communication style. An engaging team-player, you enjoy sharing knowledge with your colleagues and leverage each other's abilities, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment. You thrive in a multicultural and high-pace environment and bring a 'can-do' attitude and a healthy sense of humour to your work, even when the pressure is on. 

About the department

GSOD and SSIMS are the central sourcing units in Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply division. We are commercially responsible for ensuring that we have suppliers in place that can support Novo Nordisk’s worldwide pharmaceutical production. Through collaboration with our international suppliers, we ensure availability of the supply needed to develop and produce products that help millions of people around the world to live with chronic diseases.

You will be part of the Risk & Supplier Sustainability team, where we drive cross-units initiatives, define best practice by learning from stakeholders in- and outside Novo Nordisk, and contribute with value-adding specialist knowledge acting as center of excellence to the other departments.

By entering a thorough, yet fast-paced and ambitious environment, you collaborate closely with stakeholders inside and outside the department. While the position is now located in Bagsværd, we are moving to Høje Taastrup by the end of 2024.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you have questions regarding the job, you are welcome to call Katja Homann Falstad (Senior Manager, Risk & Supplier Sustainability) at +45 30797900.

Deadline

15 May 2024.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.