Manager Quality Control

Would you like to have the opportunity to lead a newly established Operational Support team responsible data-science, GMP, planning, capacity and forecasting for Quality Control (QC) laboratories? Do you enjoy making an impact through the success of your teams? If so, then you are the Manager we are looking for to this newly established position. 

Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position
This team is newly created after a major reorganisation, and your first task will be to ensure a smooth merging process for your employees coming from different teams into one. Your team is multidisciplinary, covering data-science, planning, forecasting, batch requests and equipment capacity analysis. The purpose of your team is to ensure continuous improvement across our 7 QC laboratories in the VP area. 

You will therefore:

• Drive your team to investigate business needs and identify solutions supporting a growing business. 
• Support your team in managing a large stakeholder landscape and guide them to find the balance between challenging and collaborating with their stakeholders. 
• As the team and role is newly established, you will be able to set your footprint in anchoring it. 

Qualifications
You will be a great leader for our newly established team because you have: 

• Solid leadership experience in working with employees with different levels of seniority.
• Experience in working within a support function – it is an advantage if you have experience within QC or the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in working with data and AI.
• Experience navigating a complex stakeholder landscape and drive change management.
• Experience navigating a complex project / task portfolio across a large area.
• Professional proficiency in English and a relevant academic degree.

With a strategic mindset, you can work independently to drive decisions and processes forward and thrive in a high-paced and dynamic workday, prioritising and inspiring others. You have the ability for seeing the bigger picture and able to keep the eye on the ball in collaboration with stakeholders.

About the department
Your team will be part of the AMSAT Quality Control area that is based in Gentofte, Hillerød and Kalundborg. Here we are app. 500 colleagues who support the biotech production with a selection of chemical and microbiological analysis of product samples, crucial for always making sure the product is in high quality and ready for release to patients. We bring value to patients by delivering timely and reliable results that keeps production in control. We drive change by always looking for improvements and innovation within our processes.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact 
For further information, please contact Leif Bruun, Director at +45 34440328 or [email protected]

Deadline 

31 January 2025

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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

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.