Head of Supply Chain Management and Operations Planning (2882)

Head of Supply Chain Management and Operations Planning at Ferrosan Medical Devices

Are you eager to take the helm of supply chain management in a company making a significant difference in global healthcare? As the new Head of Supply Chain Management and Operations Planning in Ferrosan Medical Devices, you will have the opportunity to lead and inspire a dedicated team of 10 professionals, driving the strategic direction of our Supply Chain Management Department.

Are you ready to lead and develop a forward-looking, analytical, and data-driven Supply Chain Management organization that supports our commercial strategies and ensures robustness and scalability in an increasingly complex environment? Join us as our new Head of Supply Chain Management and Operations Planning at Ferrosan Medical Devices.

Every two seconds a Ferrosan Medical Devices product helps surgeons and nurses control bleeding and avoid complications in surgical procedures. We make seconds count in surgical care, and we need you on our team!

Organization
The Supply Chain Management team is organized within our Strategy and Commercial Development Department. As Head of Supply Chain Management and Operations Planning, you will refer to the Vice President of Strategy & Commercial Development.

Supply Chain consists of 10 experienced Planners, Purchasers and Compliance Partners. The team is responsible for all aspects of production planning, procurement, inventory management, and supplier relationship management, as well as ensuring the right compliance level across our supply chain.

Your role
You will have overall leadership responsibility for the Supply Chain Team, covering all planning and procurement activities. You will be a key member of the management team, setting direction and enabling data-driven decision-making across the entire company. Your focus will be on integrating stringent methodology and strategic thinking into daily operations, fostering scalability and process robustness to handle increased complexity, and leveraging synergies with other functions across the organization.

Your main responsibilities:

• Leading, developing, and motivating your team with a focus on performance, well-being, and continuous improvement.
• Supporting your employees by setting direction, driving decision-making, leading ongoing prioritization, and solving ad-hoc issues.
• Ensuring constant and effective alignment of customer demand, our internal production and the supplier network. Both for short-term planning of procurement and production as well as long-term planning of capacity according to expected customer demand.
• Building a forward-looking, analytical Supply Chain Management organization to enable that analytics, automation, and data-driven decision-making are at the core.
• Developing and implementing processes that foster scalability, robustness and efficiency, allowing the company to handle growing complexity in our supply chain.
• Ensuring that the right competencies are available and utilized efficiently across ongoing initiatives as well as local and company projects.
• Facilitating the relationship with our partners on topics related to supply chain management, incl. daily and weekly planning.
• Ensuring ongoing improvements and high compliance in all processes.

You are successful in the job when:

• You have established a clear structure and standardized workflows that provide overview of and insights into our supply chain operations, enabling ownership and decision-making in the organization you are in charge of.
• You have improved and streamlined our supply chain management activities with focus on analytics and automation in planning and procurement.
• You have a well-functioning team where roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority are clearly defined—and where execution happens.
• You are present as a leader—visible, consistent, and empathetic—and have become a unifying point for culture and performance.
• You ensure that strategy is translated into concrete results, consistently follow up on goals and deliverables, and adjust direction when deviations occur.
• You make decisions with confidence, communicate priorities clearly, and build trust around your leadership style.

About you
You bring proven leadership, strong supply chain knowledge, and advanced analytical capabilities. You leverage data for decisions, demonstrate entrepreneurship and excel at creating effective processes. Experience in the life science industry is a plus.

The ideal candidate has:

• Proven leadership experience with a track record of building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Relevant supply chain expertise, including production planning, procurement, inventory management, and supplier relationship management in regulated industries.
• An analytical and data-driven mindset, leveraging tools and methodologies to enable automation, forecasting, and effective decision-making.
• Strong process development skills, capable of designing and implementing scalable, robust workflows that support growth and operational excellence.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities, ensuring alignment across internal teams and external partners.

We offer a truly purpose driven workplace where you can have real impact
We offer a truly purpose driven workplace with strong roots in values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes and we take our values to work every day – we care about each other, our environment and our customers and we win for patients with innovative high-quality solutions.

We offer an inclusive workplace with the opportunity to have a real impact and a development curve, that you can steepen at the pace that is suitable for you. You will meet a DK rooted company growing in numbers of international colleagues and a way of working, where hybrid, digital, learning and innovation are key words. And we take pride in having fun😊