Procurement Student Assistant for Global IT

Are you an outgoing person who thrives with optimizing processes, excellent at creating structure and enthusiastic about identifying key procurement opportunities in a Global IT organization?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Procurement Student Assistant.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, Spain, and France.

We are applying our TransCon technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

We are seeking a passionate Student Assistant to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma Global IT team, you will play a crucial role in developing our internal processes and procurement activities. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Assisting procurement and contract processes
• Ensuring oversight of IT Contracts (licenses- and framework agreements)
• Managing contracts, work orders and agreements for both projects and maintenance
• Participate in establishing a methodology/governance structure for vendor agreements
• Ensuring collaboration between various stakeholders in Global IT
• Participate in mapping how we work in Global IT and work towards improving our practices
• Support Global IT’s transformation > Supporting, developing, and aligning tasks across the teams in Global IT
• Support and assist Global IT within Ad hoc tasks

Qualifications and Skills:
Ideally, you are starting your third year of your Bachelor studies or the first year of your Master's studies in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Business Administration, Commercial Law or something completely different.

Most importantly, you have a passion to develop new processes, which optimize, strong business acumen and ensure improved structure in current ways of working.

Furthermore, you have:

• Ability to keep an overview of many tasks at once
• Excel – able to make graphs, functions, and pivot tables
• PowerPoint – structure presentations, do layout, design, and diagrams
• Able to write concisely and persuasively
• Problem-solving skills
• Communication skills
• Business Acumen

Key competencies:
You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude.

You work independently and can run with a task with little supervision. You are a self-starter and learn at a quick pace. You are a doer and not afraid to learn from your mistakes. You meet any task with the same energy, regardless of how interesting it is for you personally. You are conscientious about your tasks and can meet deadlines.

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to be:

• Able to juggle several tasks at once
• Able to write concisely and persuasively (in English)

Work hours: 15 hours a week is expected, in peak times up to 20 hours a week. Flexibility around your exams can be arranged with your manager

Office: Denmark, Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup

Apply now.
Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the position or the company, please contact Christian Wittrup, Associate Director Global IT Services & Procurement at [email protected] or +45 30 62 62 61 or visit out website www.ascendispharma.com

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