QA Professional (2-year maternity cover)

Are you interested in pharmaceutical production? Do you feel excited about handling many different tasks and responsibilities? Do you thrive in a position where you work alongside talented and supportive colleagues to ensure the quality of API production for biological medicine?

If so, this presents an excellent opportunity for you to join us as a new team member in Biotech and Rare Disease QA API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient).

The position
This role is located in our API production facility in Hillerød. Our primary responsibility involves establishing quality and compliance standards in line with both internal and external requirements.  
While reviewing validation documentation, batch documentation, trend reports, SOPs, deviations, and change requests, ensure to maintain a QA presence by being physically present in the production area. This allows for observing performed processes and helping to solve issues in real time.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to significantly impact decision-making, drive initiatives, and actively engage. We foster a positive working environment and encourage resolving challenges through open and honest dialogue. 

Qualifications

To succeed as our new Adv. QA Professional, you should have:

• A MSc in pharmacy, engineering, veterinary science, microbiology, biotechnology, or a similar field.
• Eagerness to learn a new profession.
• Having a strong quality mindset and the ability to thrive in a multitasking environment.
• Demonstrated capability for solution-focused dialogue with both production and other QA colleagues.

As a person, you bring clear and effective communication skills to your interactions with stakeholders, demonstrating the capacity to maintain a respectful tone even when delivering challenging messages. Additionally, you have the ability to contribute positively to a cohesive working environment, showcasing strong collaboration skills with colleagues.

About the department
We are a well-functioning department with many interfaces in the organization including production, management, and other QA departments. We are 70 employees covering the production of API across our sites in Hillerød, Kalundborg and Gentofte. You will be part of the team with 17 great colleagues based in Hillerød.

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, you are welcome to contact Nikolaj O. Christiansen, QA Manager +45 3075 6771.

Deadline 
17 November 2024.

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 / CV. 
You may submit your application in English or in Danish. We look forward to reading your application, and we will review applications received on an ongoing basis, so do not hesitate to apply as soon as possible.
 

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.