Supply Chain Manager Job at Novo Nordisk - Career Opportunity in Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Supply Chain Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Health Care , Category: Management ]

Jobs at:

Novo Nordisk

Deadline of this Job:
12 June 2020  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
At Novo Nordisk, we are driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic conditions. Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 42,000 people in 77 countries and markets its products in more than 165 countries Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 42,000 people in 77 countries and markets its products in more than 165 countries. .

The Responsibilities:
Analytics:
• Drive Sales & Operations Planning process with relevant stakeholders.
• Flag pro-actively any supply and logistics risks, overstock risks and freshness risk to mitigate the potential issues. Escalate relevant issues to the Finance, Logistics and IT Manager (FLIT) and in Sales and Operations meetings.
• Own forecasting process and suggest actions to improve the forecast accuracy.
• Deliver analytics and insights to Middle Africa (MA) management team to ensure basis for data and evidence-based decision making.
• Act as reliable, analytical, and business savvy sparring partner to the FLIT Manager and the rest of MA management team, proactively extracting actionable insights. Oversee and when needed perform logistics management:
• Plan the supply for MA markets, in close collaboration with regional managers, Commercial Affairs and Strategy (CAS) and FLIT Managers, by placing and monitoring orders to Novo Nordisk factories, monitoring stock levels and ensuring optimum level of inventory.
• Create orders in SAP R3 in accordance with approved material numbers, incoterms, prices and payment terms.
• Inform Customers/internal stakeholders on delivery times and changes.
• Participate in launch coordination meetings and coordinate the alignment between MA and Product Supply (PS) Launch Office.
• Act as the main contact between Product Supply, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Shipping and other internal NN departments to assure timely delivery of the requested orders.
• Provide input to agreements with third parties.
• Maintain customer and price lists in SAP.
• Ensure that documents required by customers/customs authorities are compliant and delivered on time.
• Check diligently L/Cs to avoid any discrepancies. Control the L/C and relevant bank documents upon receipt and ensure that required conditions are applicable.
• Issue Debit/Credit notes/ Pro-forma Invoices in compliance with ICQ when required.
• Keep and maintain a systematic and sustainable filing/archiving system for all order related documents.
• Retain/archive documents in compliance with local regulations of all markets based on the local and corporate document retention guidelines.
Value Chain Management:
• Evaluate and suggest options for value chain management.
• Act as sparring partner to CAS team and pricing responsible and provide timely and relevant input to maximize pricing strategy.
• Suggest options for optimising customer contracts and drive implementation together with Regional Managers (RMs).
• Project manager for MA supply chain project in which viable options for MA supply chain optimization are identified and evaluated, and the course of action suggested.


Job Skills: Not Specified


Qualifications
To qualify for the position you must have:
• A relevant B.Sc, Engineering or similar.
• M.Sc. in Supply Chain or business administration would be a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain and logistics in an international company, preferably in supply chain analytics, logistics handling, and customer service and import/export environment.
• Proven experience and exposure to international trade and good knowledge of international trade tools.
• Demonstration of successful project management with cross-functional and cross-cultural projects.


Job Education Requirements: Not Specified


Job Education Experience: Not Specified


Work Hours: 8

 

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 12th June 2020
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 04-06-2020
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 04-06-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 04-06-2065
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