Pharmaceutical Scientist

Are you passionate about active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and pharmaceutical excipients for oral solid dosage forms, and how they impact the manufacturing process performance and drug product quality? Would you like to be involved in establishing specification requirements and overseeing quality changes? Do you dream about joining a dynamic department responsible for new oral products for diabetes and obesity treatment, where we are involved from development to market readiness? 
 
Then you might be our new Pharmaceutical Scientist! Apply today for a life-changing career!
 

The Position

As a Pharmaceutical Scientist, you will participate in the transfer of new products from Research and Development (R&D) to the production sites in Denmark, EU, and the United States, with a special focus on the characteristics of APIs/excipients and their impact on the performance and robustness of the tablet production. 
 
As we expand our product portfolio and our production sites, we are also expanding our use of APIs and pharmaceutical excipients and its suppliers. Our team members are participating in the ongoing implementation of new grades and types of APIs/excipients. This includes testing the APIs/excipients on a lab-scale and in full-scale production equipment and setting requirements for specifications towards suppliers.

When necessary, you will be driving root cause analysis and trouble-shooting sessions in cooperation with the production and analytical departments among other important stakeholders.
 
Your main focus will be on:
•    Updating internal and external documents with requirements, specifications, and justifications.    
•    Driving change requests and deviation handling.
•    Project management by leading projects and tasks across the organization.
•    Evaluation of new grades and types of APIs and pharmaceutical excipients.
•    Life cycle management with focus on APIs and pharmaceutical excipients for tablet production.
 
Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:
•    A master’s degree and/or a PhD in pharmacy, pharmaceutical science, chemical engineering, or a similar field.
•    Experience with unit operations for tablet production - obtained either through education or work experience.
•    Experience with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and the pharmaceutical industry, e.g., product development, support, transfer, process validation or production.
•    Experience with handling of change requests and deviations from a GMP regulated production, which is considered a major plus.
•    Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English and preferably also proficiency in Danish.

We highly value candidates who has prior work experience with APIs/excipients for oral formulations and/or tablet production, as well as those who has been managing project in the past. Having a background in these areas will be a significant asset to our team.

As a person, you possess great collaboration skills, are structured, not afraid of setting the direction and make tough decisions. To excel in this position, it's essential to have a strong ability to prioritize tasks and enjoy working as a team player. Being able to thrive in cross-functional and cross-departmental stakeholder collaboration is key to succeed in this role.

About the Department

Emerging Technologies (ET) Product Development & Launch employs approximately 125 highly skilled and motivated employees with the mission to bring products from late development to market production. This includes development and optimization of the processes and products, creating the stability documentation as well as building up the documentation for the authorities for new products.

The department consists of seven teams: Five formulation and process development teams, a stability and specification team as well as an equipment and materials science team where this position is located. What we do is an important part of Novo Nordisk, and as an agile department, we solve exciting and challenging tasks every day.

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 Manager Søren Vinter Søgaard at +45 34487751. 

Deadline 

29 January 2025.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.
 

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.