QC Professional

Are you passionate about analytical chemistry? Do you want to play a pivotal role in setting up a new laboratory and ensuring high-quality standards? Are you able to take ownership, act, and complete tasks full circle, ensuring there are no loose ends? 

If yes, read more and apply today for a life-changing career as a QC Professional at Novo Nordisk Pharmatech.

The position
As our new QC Professional, your key responsibilities will include:

• Prepare project plans and coordinate with stakeholders across the organization to ensure the new laboratory is up and running within the deadline.
• Qualify, validate, and implement analytical equipment and procedures.
• Collaborate with colleagues to deliver high-standard quality control and continuously improve and optimize processes.
• Provide sparring and problem-solving with laboratory technicians on analytical results.
• Review analytical reports and handle tasks within our Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure compliance with external and internal requirements.

As we work under GMP requirements, managing Change Requests, SOP updates, deviations, etc., will be a natural part of your job.

About the department
We are about 37 employees in the Quality Control unit organized in three teams, consisting of Specialist, Professionals and Laboratory Technicians. You will be joining the QC Resins team where we are 8 employees. We have many different analytical techniques such as GC, GC-MS, HPLC, ÄKTA, BET, Elemental Analysis, Karl Fisher etc. 

The QC Resin team will move to a new location next to Køge Nord Station when the laboratory is up running in 2026. You will contribute to this transfer by preparing project plans and qualification documents for new/relocation of equipment, validation documents for transferring analytical procedures, etc.

The team support development of products and production with high quality analyses. The team also handle tasks like stability tests, raw material controls, implementation of new analytical equipment, development, and validation of methods, etc.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we envision that you have:

• Educational Background: A scientific academic degree such as cand. pharm., cand. scient., chemical engineer, or similar.
• Experience: A few years of experience in chemical QC, with proficiency in HPLC and GC equipment.
• Skills: Experience with validation of analytical procedures and qualification of analytical equipment. Proficiency in data analysis, statistics, and IT skills.
• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in both written and spoken Danish and English is required.

On a personal level, you are a team player who is solution-oriented with a positive attitude. You have excellent communication skills and can build and nurture relationships across teams and departments. You are curious about new and innovative solutions and are eager to contribute to the digital transformation of our QC laboratories. Embracing change and proactively bringing forward new solutions, processes, and improvements are key qualities we are looking for. You are comfortable in a dynamic environment where priorities shift rapidly.

Working at Novo Nordisk Pharmatech
Novo Nordisk Pharmatech A/S (NNPR) is located in Køge, Denmark, and is 100% owned by Novo Nordisk. The company has close to 550 employees and the core task of the business is to enable better medicines through biopharmaceutical manufacturing for NovoNordisk as well as for the global industry. NNPR is in the coming years expanding an already wide product portfolio within Enzymes, Synthetic Molecules, and Resins. The company has the full value chain with both R&D laboratories, production facilities, and acommercial organisation, plus a wide range of support departments on top. 

Contact
For further information, you can contact Manager, Louise Frische, on [email protected]. 

Deadline 
6 January 2025
 

We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously, so do not hesitate to apply today.

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.