QA Specialist - Supply Chain

Are you a highly motivated, solution oriented and self-confident individual with a passion for working with Quality Assurance in a large organization? Can you transform

requirements from the authorities into simple and compliant solutions that are understandable for our stakeholders globally. If so, then this exciting job might be your next position! Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The Position

As a QA Specialist – Supply Chain, you will be responsible for implementing new external suppliers, such as transport and temperature logger. You will get the opportunity to develop and implement new strategic projects within our own department and together with our stakeholder in the Supply Chain. This includes establishing new procedures, measurements, and techniques to effectively simplify and optimize the current processes while ensuring a high level of quality.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Ensuring Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) & Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliance at Novo Nordisk external transport suppliers.
• Developing and implementing quality assurance strategies.
• Reviewing and approving transport deviations and transport validation.
• Continuously securing that NN external transport suppliers operate with the right and optimal quality level. This includes their Quality Management system, licens-es/certificates, etc.
• Writing, reviewing, and approving quality related documents, such as Quality Agreements, etc.
• Performing QA present with NN external transport suppliers.

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance, product quality and patient safety in our daily operations, and offer QA support and GMP/GDP guidance internally to Supply Chain Quality Assurance (SCQA). This position requires a strong quality mindset and a solid process and business understanding. In addition, you will participate in relevant audits with external suppliers and internally in Novo Nordisk.

Please note that our office will be relocating to a new location in Høje Taastrup (Q4 2025).

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you should:

• Hold a master’s degree in e.g., supply chain, logistics, chemistry, biology, engineering, pharmacy, or similar.
• Have at least 5 years of relevant experience either within quality assurance or supply chain/distribution.
• Have worked with supplier handling, preferably in relation to quality processes.
• Have several years of validation experience in roles within supply chain and/or the pharmaceutical industry, preferably in relation to IT validation/QA.
• Have knowledge of both GMP and GDP requirements.
• Project management skills would be an asset.

As an ideal candidate you are fluent in English both written and spoken. On a personal level you are ambitious, curious, proactive and have a great interest in developing yourself and people in your network. Your attitude is service minded, independent with an eye for simplicity and take responsibility for your tasks. As a person you demonstrate curiosity and experiment and drive quality decisions. Finally, you have great communication skills, this includes being able to communicate and collaborate with different nationalities and cultures.

About the department

Supply Chain Quality Assurance (SCQA) is responsible for Quality Assurance of and sup-port to Global Logistics & Distribution (GL&D), including cold chain distribution of Novo Nordisk products worldwide, production planning across the entire Novo Nordisk supply chain, and data management and governance across Novo Nordisk. The department has 26 employees and is growing rapidly.

In our daily work we work closely together with Global Logistics & Distribution (GL&D),– our Line of Business, whom we support in quality matters, are involved in high impact projects, and set quality direction for. You will become part of a team focusing on ensuring the quality level at our external forwarders and logger suppliers. It is a team which have a high level of self-governance, good working relations, are informal and value professional sparring and good humour highly.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

If you want to know more, please reach out to Hiring Manager, Paw Winther Brandt-Kofoed at [email protected].

Deadline

30 March 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.

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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.