QA Director for Production

Do you thrive in a challenging and ever-changing environment? Are you motivated by challenges requiring a high level of professional competencies and leadership experience? Do you have a natural talent for setting strategic direction and navigating within a complex environment with diverse stakeholder groups? 

Then you may be our new Director in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) QA M1 manufacturing (QA M1) in Kalundborg, apply now!
 

About the department
QA M1 is responsible for assuring safe and innovative products for our patients. 

Our department consists of app. 50 highly qualified employees led by an engaged and experienced leadership team consisting of the Director and four Managers. 

You will be heading up a department where behavioural targets are driving our culture and where setting direction for quality is driven through quality oversight and our ability to support and drive improvements. Therefore, engagement and communication with all levels of employees from CVP to operators in the Purification Plants is a key part of the job.

The position
As a Director, you will assume a key role in continuing to lead, develop and shape the QA M1 department on how we work with quality assurance. This implies to drive and support the quality culture in close collaboration with our stakeholders in the Purification Plants to ensure that the quality of products and processes are compliant with external and internal GMP requirements.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Leading a department of highly trained and experienced QA professionals and specialists through your Managers
• Building and maintaining close collaboration with the production unit and other stakeholders across Novo Nordisk 
• Ensuring overall that we as a company can deliver high quality products at competitive cost

You will refer directly to the Corporate Vice President of API QA and be a member of the API QA management team, assuring the unit and stakeholder areas have the relevant systems and procedures in place for securing compliance with relevant laws and guidelines. 

This is a key role in the management and development of the API QA organisation that will enable you to drive prioritisation, strategies and setting direction for quality and compliance across sites.  

Qualifications
We are looking for a person with a strong business perspective who is able to understand both the quality business and the production business with a strategic ability to balance quality, delivery and cost.

To succeed in this role, you:

• Hold a masters’ degree in pharmacy, engineering or similar
• Are an experienced manager, able to lead through other leaders as well as coaching and motivating 
• Have substantial experience within a pharmaceutical production
• Build strong stakeholder relations
• Are fluent in English

It will be seen as an advantage if you have been in QA related roles within the pharmaceutical industry.

On a personal level, you are comfortable being challenged by senior stakeholders in decisions on quality issues and your high level of personal integrity and robustness enables you to integrate different views in the decision-making process. Having said that, we expect you can stay firm when needed to secure the quality and compliance aspects. 

Finally, you are well organised and create strong results by engaging your employees in taking pride in delivering on their objectives. 

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact Camilla Kornbeck on +45 3075 1270.
 

Deadline
28 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.