Senior Procurement Contract Excellence Manager
About The Department
The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations 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, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions.
The Position
This position supports the Director of Contract Excellence and Sourcing Operations in day-to-day execution of the contracting process and its continuous improvement through simplification and automation. It also provides general support of the broader Contract-to-Pay process including risk-based channel strategies aligned with category strategies.
Essential Functions
Contracting and Continuous Improvement: Collaborates with the Operations Leader on the delivery of the vision, strategic priorities and roadmap for contracting
Supervises day-to-day contracting process execution based on KPIs including cycle time, AI adoption, business partnering, and productivity of team members
Negotiates urgent or complex contracts with counterparties
Identifies and drives continuous improvement in process. Utilizes data to make decisions on process improvements, measure process performance, etc.
Provides general support of the broader Contract-to-Pay process, such as executing a risk-based channel strategy aligned with category strategies
Team Supervision: Drives accountability on KPIs of cycle time, volume throughput, AI adoption
Ensures team engagement and morale
Establishes a learning culture and a continuous improvement mindset
Business Partnering And User Experience: Cultivates and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders, including providing strategic advice, updates and reports, and gathering feedback
Ensures the development, delivery and storage of high-quality communication and training resources related to policy, processes, technology, tools, and other process matters
Closely collaborates with BI on data quality, dashboards, and insights
Closely collaborates with Digital-on-digital transformation projects
Closely collaborates with Global System teams on platform feature enhancements, version releases, etc.
Facilitates organization change management for changes in policy, process, platform
Contracting Technology Adoption: Adopts new technology such as AI-assisted redlining, AI-enabled contracting and leads through example
Identifies opportunities to improve processes based on technology, and to leverage technology to enable better process
Physical Requirements
0-10% overnight travel required.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree required
- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible, relevant experience required with at least 7 years in procurement source to pay process management, with specific emphasis in contracting
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in contract redlining and negotiation with counterparties
- Knowledge and experience in world class Contract Lifecycle Management systems such as Coupa, Ironclad, etc.
- Familiarity of broader source to pay platforms is preferred
- A minimum of 3 years of people leadership
- Demonstrated experience as a valued advisor and partner to stakeholders by providing influential counsel and guidance
- Demonstrated experience developing and communicating complex problem statements and recommendations to gain stakeholder endorsement
- Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, execute and follow-up in a timely manner and anticipate problems and roadblocks to avoid crisis management
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills required
- Knows how to get things done both through formal and informal channels
- Advanced MS PowerPoint/MS Excel required
- Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience preferred
Pay
The base compensation range for this position is $120,300 to $222,600. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance.
Benefits
Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors. Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance.
Contact Information
The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy, and parental leave policy. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.