Associate Risk Management Lead

Novo Nordisk; Taastrup; On-site; DKK 651,000 - 957,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk in Taastrup, Denmark, seeks an Associate Risk Management Lead to strengthen how supplier and financial risks are understood and managed across Global Direct Procurement and Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices. Your guidance will connect financial analysis, risk insights and procurement decisions to help colleagues identify exposure early and take proportionate action.

The role offers a global scope, collaboration across functions and the opportunity to influence unit-price

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering or another relevant field.
• Typically five years or more of relevant experience, combining strong financial-analysis capabilities with experience from procurement, supply chain, supplier risk or a comparable business environment.
• Strong financial-analysis skills, including the ability to interpret financial statements, assess financial health and resilience, identify potential distress indicators and explain the business implications.
• Experience combining financial, external-risk and internal business information and translating the analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• A can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong stakeholder-management and facilitation skills, with the confidence to engage colleagues, managers and senior decision-makers across functions.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve recurring supplier-risk processes, including Enterprise Risk Management and upstream supply-chain risk assessments.
• Assess the financial health, resilience and risk of suppliers and contract manufacturing organisations using financial statements, external risk data and internal business information.
• Translate risk findings into clear recommendations for supplier management, negotiations, mitigation and escalation.
• Conduct or coordinate ad hoc financial-risk assessments, including due diligence, ownership analysis and insolvency-related cases.
• Analyse tariff, commodity, pricing and other relevant market exposures and connect your findings to procurement and budget decisions.
• Co‑own the Unit Price Budget process, supporting preparation, stakeholder guidance, data consolidation and communication across relevant budget and forecast cycles.
• Coordinate cross‑functional stakeholders and improve analytical approaches, governance, templates and digital workflows to make risk‑based decision support more effective and scalable.
• Contribute to guidance, knowledge sharing and capability building across relevant stakeholder groups.

Skills

Financial analysis

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

English fluency

Procurement domain experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering or another relevant field

Job description

Global Direct Procurement | Procurement Solutions | Taastrup, Denmark

Your impact begins here

As Associate Risk Management Lead, you will help strengthen how supplier and financial risks are understood and managed across Global Direct Procurement and Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices. By connecting financial analysis, risk insights and procurement decisions, you will enable colleagues to identify exposure early and take proportionate action. Your advice will support decisions involving suppliers, contract manufacturing organisations, market developments and unit-price planning.

What You’ll Bring

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering or another relevant field.
• Typically five years or more of relevant experience, combining strong financial-analysis capabilities with experience from procurement, supply chain, supplier risk or a comparable business environment.
• Strong financial-analysis skills, including the ability to interpret financial statements, assess financial health and resilience, identify potential distress indicators and explain the business implications.
• Experience combining financial, external-risk and internal business information and translating the analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• A can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong stakeholder-management and facilitation skills, with the confidence to engage colleagues, managers and senior decision-makers across functions.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Experience with manufacturing, procurement and supply chain is highly relevant, but pharmaceutical industry experience is not essential.

What You’ll Do

• Manage and continuously improve recurring supplier-risk processes, including Enterprise Risk Management and upstream supply-chain risk assessments.
• Assess the financial health, resilience and risk of suppliers and contract manufacturing organisations using financial statements, external risk data and internal business information.
• Translate risk findings into clear recommendations for supplier management, negotiations, mitigation and escalation.
• Conduct or coordinate ad hoc financial-risk assessments, including due diligence, ownership analysis and insolvency-related cases.
• Analyse tariff, commodity, pricing and other relevant market exposures and connect your findings to procurement and budget decisions.
• Co‑own the Unit Price Budget process, supporting preparation, stakeholder guidance, data consolidation and communication across relevant budget and forecast cycles.
• Coordinate cross‑functional stakeholders and improve analytical approaches, governance, templates and digital workflows to make risk‑based decision support more effective and scalable.
• Contribute to guidance, knowledge sharing and capability building across relevant stakeholder groups.

Who You’ll Work With

You will join Process Management & Excellence within Procurement Solutions, a centre of excellence supporting Global Direct Procurement and Global Strategic Outsourcing & Devices. The wider areas include approximately 200 and 80 colleagues respectively, while the risk capability is a small specialist area managing defined risk processes and analytical assignments across both organisations.

Your closest partners will include colleagues in category management, strategic sourcing, finance, supply chain, contract manufacturing, enterprise risk management, security, legal, compliance, tax, public affairs, data and analytics. You will work across organisational levels, bringing together different perspectives and helping stakeholders move from complex analysis to clear decisions. The position has a global scope and is based in Taastrup, Denmark.

For further information about the position, please contact Daniel Franco Orjuela, Director, Procurement Solutions, at [e-mail]

What You Can Expect Here

You will have the opportunity to take ownership of established risk processes while helping develop how supplier and financial risks support procurement decisions. The role combines analytical depth with extensive collaboration, giving you exposure to a broad range of business challenges and stakeholders. You will be trusted to contribute your expertise, ask the right questions and develop practical solutions in an international environment.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 651,000 to 956,900 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.

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

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