QA Manager

Are you a highly motivated leader, driven by complex challenges with experience in QA? Do you want to be part of a fantastic QA team that values team spirit, empowerment, and good collaboration with our stakeholder? Are you passionate about motivating and supervising a team and helping them perform at their best to ensure manufacture, assembly and packaging of Novo Nordisk Drug Products from our Contract Manufacturing Organizations across Asia, Middle East and Africa? If yes, apply now for a life changing career as QA Manager in our Local CMO QA team in Global Contract Manucturing Drug Products.

The Position

You will be QA manager for a team of currently 8 QA highly skilled dedicated employees. You will play a key role in managing, developing and shaping your team and improve how we work with quality assurance. The team is working from Denmark, India and Bangladesh, and will in the beginning of 2025 expand with 3 new colleagues in Denmark and South Africa to meet the increasing need for our products.

You and your team will cooperate closely with external Contract Manufacturing Organizations in Asia, Middle East and Africa to ensure our products in local and global markets. The team is responsible for QA oversight, to set the compliance direction and advice our CMOs to ensure highest quality products released timely to our patients.

The main tasks of your team will be:

• To take QA responsibility of our CMOs.
• To handle daily operation of your CMOs such as release from manufacturing and finish packed products to the markets, deviations and Change Control.
• To own the Quality Agreements.
• To ensure strong partnership with our CMOs
• To train, coach and mentor our CMOs to build up the quality mind-set, Quality and Compliance culture, a strong Quality management System and understanding of EU GMP.

In addition, you will be part of the experienced management group and will work closely with your management colleagues on day-to-day operations and people management-related matters.

Qualifications

Your key to success in this role lies within your ability to perform as an inspiring, coaching and motivating leader and, at the same time practise good stakeholder management  with CMOs in an internal dynamic organisation.  

To succeed in this role, you have:

• A master’s degree in life science such as pharmaceutical science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ability to set directions, ensure compliance in close collaboration with your team and stakeholders
• Experience in Quality, or production such as aseptic processing, assembly and packaging.
• Experience in people management.
• Excellent quality mindset.
• Knowledge of GMP rules and quality assurance in the pharmaceutical industry.

As a person you have a high drive and sense of initiative combined with empathy and the ability to support and engage the employees and stakeholders. You seek out improvements and optimizations as a natural way of working. You are known for your positive mindset, and you enjoy working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities. As we are cooperating broadly with many stakeholders, excellent collaboration, and communication skills are needed. You are fluent in English, both written and spoken

About the Department

Global Contract Manufacturing (GCM) QA is responsible for quality assurance and quality support to outsourced production activities worldwide. In LMCO QA one of the primary roles is to deliver QA support and set direction for CMO’s in countries where local presence is required to maintain market access.

GCM QA is a dynamic department consisting of 80 competent people divided into 10 teams with focus on either operations or projects. You will be a strong player in the project team. The department is characterized by a high level of professionalism, flexibility, and cooperation. The primary role of our department is to deliver QA support and set direction for our local and global CMOs.  We focus on good social relations and prioritize to make room for fun at work. 

At the moment, the workplace is in Søborg but we will be relocated to Høje Taastrup by February 2025.

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 Senior Quality Manager Asger Laurberg Vig +45 30752770.

Deadline

Please apply as soon as possible, as we are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis. Deadline to apply is the 21st 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.