Manager - United States Analytics and Digitalization

About the Department
The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions 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, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?
The Position
Bridge the gap between business needs and innovative technological solutions through agile collaboration with internal and external partners. Act as a regional Analytics & Digitalization Partner and collaborate with the central Analytics and Digitalization teams to ensure all solutions are aligned with our strategy and ways of working. Support the supply chain strategy by implementing automation solutions for core supply chain processes.
Relationships
Reports to a Director in US Supply Chain.
The role will interact with regional and global colleagues from the below organizations. Regional Supply Chain, CoE heads, US & IO CSC and GSC Data & Analytics, Data Mgmt. & Analytics (DD&IT, PS), DD&IT (Global, Regional), Finance & Operations.
Essential Functions

• Analytics & Digitalization:
  • Identify improvement opportunities to ensure an efficient supply chain with actionable insights
• Organization:
  • Facilitate, drive and implement digital projects

• Drive Innovation and Change:
  • Identify new ideas, develop strategies to implement them, and foster a culture of change within the organization
• Analytics & Digitalization:
  • Analytics expert with in-depth knowledge and a strong drive for turning data into actionable insights
  • Translate business needs, consolidate solutions, and promote best practice
  • Implement and scale solutions to complex business issues and provide strategic insights with a significant impact on the SC
  • Reduce manual work (e.g. reporting and routine tasks) by identifying processes for automation
  • Identify data source gaps and quality issues and liaise with stakeholders to solve issues swiftly
  • Strong drive to reach global solutions and standardization

• Organization:
  • Collaborate with GSC/CSC and DD&IT teams to ensure scalable solutions
  • Facilitate closer collaboration between analytics & digitalization departments by participating in relevant forums
  • Use the NN frameworks for agile and data governance to ensure robust and value-adding development
  • Expand the usage of BI solutions in the SC community and beyond. Promote solutions, offer trainings, produce training material (e.g. guides and videos), send newsletters, lead community meetings, etc.
  • Close collaboration with the Global and Commercial SC Analytics and Digital teams
• Drive Innovation and Change:
  • Secure alignment between multiple internal and external stakeholders with conflicting interests
  • Influence stakeholders when necessary to achieve desired impact
  • Continuously improve the BI platform with focus on simplicity to increase CSC business insights
  • Drive change and introduce new tools and standards to free up time and evaluate potential benefits from new technologies
  • High level of initiative to deliver innovative technical solutions to business requirements
  • Identify, recommend and provide solutions to issues that are not immediately obvious in current processes

Physical Requirements
10% international travel is required.
Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in e.g. Computer Science, Data Science, Supply Chain, Economics, Business Administration, Finance or similar required, Master's degree preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the following areas; Supply chain, BI systems, analytics, digital, finance, commercial, data architecture, digital systems and project management.
• International experience is a plus
• Intercultural understanding
• Experience and understanding of BI systems, data architecture and digital systems such as SAP, OpenText

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.
Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.
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