Sr Purchasing Supervisor

Department – Finance GBS

Are you passionate about finance and accounting operations? Do you have a knack for managing teams and driving process improvements? We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Team Lead to join our Procurement GBS team in Bangalore. If you are ready to take on a new challenge and make a significant impact, read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
About the department
Procurement GBS is the offshoring unit of Global Procurement and is part of Finance GBS Bangalore. The Purchasing Operations - HQ team within Procurement GBS is responsible for indirect spend, delivering and supporting order management, invoice resolution activities, query management, tactical sourcing, P2P system support, and PO audit controls. The team operates in a dynamic and collaborative environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables and customer satisfaction.

The position
As a Team Lead at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Manage overall operational performance in Procurement operations support for Investment Engineering Sourcing and R&D units.
• Ensure Sarbox (SOX) compliance for Finance GBS, including identifying improvements to internal controls and processes.
• Support management decisions with a focus on overall process improvements and organisational development.
• Lead the department to deliver high-quality services on time, ensuring motivated and satisfied employees and stakeholders.
• Deliver high-quality daily, monthly, month-end, and year-end tasks. Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactively recognise problems, identify options, and implement solutions. Develop, implement, and monitor performance metrics.
• Maintain an awareness of business, operational activities, and processes within the scope of responsibilities.
• Maintain strong technical accounting, systems, and process skills. Create adequate backups for existing processes to reduce people dependency.

Qualifications
We realise that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• Masters within Business or Finance. Good academic track record and grades.
• LEAN / Six Sigma experience. Good IT skills.
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant work experience, working within Finance Offshoring centres
• Strong accounting & analytical skills. Project management skills, including change management skills.
• Strong proven people and performance management skills. Can operate on strategic, tactic and operational level
• Experience with service culture and delivery, process standardisation and optimisation.
• Ability to navigate and build relations in large organizations. Team player with problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Highly self-motivated to work independently, within delegated authority, with minimal or no supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and understand how assigned responsibilities impact other processes and the work of other people.
• Adaptable to learn new processes, concepts, and skills.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact 
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Deadline 
15th November 2024.

Disclaimer
It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment process.

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.