Global Procurement Risk 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

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