Director – Direct Pharma Procurement

Can you motivate and develop 4 teams and manage a 2-300 mill. EUR spend in scope?

LEO Pharma has embarked on a very ambitious journey to become the world’s preferred dermatology care partner – and that is why we need you.
If you bring procurement and management experience from a highly regulated industry, and you are ready for your next important career move, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for. That is, if you can thrive in a highly ambitious, global company that has set out to become the world’s preferred dermatology care partner by 2025. To succeed, we must grow the company almost 100% and to so, everything is in play. We know the direction but we need to learn and adapt on the way, and you will play a pivotal role in shaping our future while ensuring that employee motivation and great results goes hand in hand across your 4 teams.

In Global Procurement you will get the opportunity to make a significant difference for people with serious skin diseases all over the world.

The job

Your job is to ensure high quality and adequate supplies to LEO Pharma’s production sites in Denmark, Ireland, France and Italy. Your 2-300 MEUR spend in scope covers Raw Materials and API´s, Device, Packaging & CMO´s, CAPEX, MRO & Energy, Distribution and Logistics. You will head 4 teams and have the 4 Team Leaders in direct report

• Develop, plan, implement, and maintain leading edge sourcing strategy and supply base
• Ensure strategic alignment with production strategies and category plans
• Lead, motivate and develop your 4 Team Leads – so they can do the same for their team members
• Oversee and follow up on KPI’s, road maps, plans, deliveries etc.

Furthermore, you will participate in strategic high level negotiations, develop and maintain risk mitigation plans, and drive on-going optimization of processes, systems, and tools.
Your road to success will to a wide extent depend on skills as inspiring and motivating people manager in combination with your ability to build constructive and trust-based relations to stakeholders in the production, suppliers and partners.

Your qualifications

• A Masters’ degree within supply chain or logistics
• Solid procurement experience from pharma or similar highly regulated industry
• Leadership experience from a transformation environment
• Solid negotiation experience
• Advanced understanding of pricing models and contracts terms

The ideal candidate is an experienced procurement professional who is very motivated by positive people leadership. As such, you see people management as a discipline of its own, and you are ready to add more tools to your already well-equipped leadership toolbox.
As part of this you know how to make people around you understand and embrace on-going changes in direction, priorities, processes etc.
On a personal level you are known for your open, trustworthy and fact based approach – you say what you do, and do what you say.

Your new team

You will head approx. 20 procurement professionals in 4 teams at the LEO Pharma HQ in Ballerup, Greater Copenhagen. The teams share an ambition of making results that matters the most. The environment is characterized by support, helpfulness and a good understanding of what sister teams are doing – we are ONE department and we succeed as such.

Join our mission to help more people achieve healthy skin

Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are suffering from an untreated skin disease. Helping these people to get a better life is what LEO Pharma is all about. By understanding their needs and wishes we will improve existing treatments and break new land to uncover the solutions of tomorrow.

By joining LEO Pharma you will get the opportunity to create results, develop yourself among highly skilled colleagues while taking on our quest to become the preferred dermatology care partner improving people’s lives around the world and at the same time create profitable growth.

Contact and application

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact, Thomas Tasholm, Vice President, + 45 3115 6364.

. The deadline is 5 July 2020.