Quality and Compliance Project Manager

Do you want to be part of Novo Nordisk and help expand our position as one of the most innovative and successful pharma companies? Would you like to help support production in ensuring right level of Quality and continuous improvements? Do you enjoy managing larger compliance projects across multiple departments with many stakeholders, and does inspections and audits excite you? Then we can offer you an exciting position, where your quality mindset and expertise in leading planned and incoming compliance projects while supporting the ongoing needs in your own department with your in depth GMP/QMS knowledge, will be extremely valuable for us as a company, reaching our ambitious goals while having the right level of quality. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The position

This critical position involves managing complex quality and compliance projects, from planning through implementation, to ensure we meet the highest standards. It is an exciting and challenging role with a wide variety of tasks and many stakeholders across multiple departments and larger projects across different CVP areas. You will play a key role in project management within the quality coordination team, ensuring successful delivery while maintaining compliance.

Key tasks:

• Assist in scoping and prioritizing incoming compliance signals from various audits and inspections
• Manage and ensure plan adherence in planned and incoming compliance improvement projects
• Identify trends and possibilities for improvements, that can reduce complexity and build quality and robustness into the processes
• Prepare for internal audits and inspections
• Ensure change management when implementing improvements to GMP and QMS
• Prepare trend reports, quality oversight tools, Quality Management Review etc.

To succeed in this job, it is a prerequisite that you have a can-do attitude, are curious to understand, gain energy by interacting with many stakeholders and thrive in managing different tasks simultaneously.

Qualifications

The position requires a high degree of knowledge within working with compliance improvements in a GMP regulated environment and the ability to scope and deliver the best-possible solutions to new requirements from signals, inspections and audits.

Furthermore:

• You have minimum 5 years of experience with GMP from relevant position in the medical industry, complimented by the ability to manage complex projects.
• You hold a master’s degree within chemistry, life sciences or another relevant field
• You have experience with most of the following processes: deviation handling, change requests, qualification/validation, QC/EM procedures and compliance project management
• You are curious and able to see opportunities for compliance improvements. Independence is a prerequisite, as well as the ability to collaborate with various groups of employees with different backgrounds.
• You speak/write professionally English

About the department

You will be reporting to the Department Manager and be a part of the management team of QC/EM (Quality Control/Environmental Monitoring) in M1. However, the majority of your time will be spent on prioritizing and managing larger cross departmental compliance projects in close collaboration with the rest of the quality coordinator group in M1. The group consists of five highly dedicated and qualified persons with whom you will solve most of your cross-departmental tasks in collaboration with. We share an informal and relaxed tone and work purposefully to deliver the right level of quality of our products to the patients we serve every day.

About Novo Nordisk Kalundborg

Become a part of Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg and get a developing career among the most talented people in a successful company. Together, we make a real difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. We have 50 years of expertise in biotechnological production at Novo Nordisk in Kalundborg. Generations of employees have developed their professional qualifications, personal skills and careers at Novo Nordisk and have helped develop the production facility to become the largest insulin-producing facility in the world. Today, our 3,000 employ-ees produce half of the world’s insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products. Furthermore, our finished product sections assemble and pack diabetes and biopharmaceutical products. You will soon sense why Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a highly unique place and why we are passionate about working here. You will be met with trust and responsibility by welcoming and dedicated colleagues. Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a workplace where involvement, development and multi disciplinarity are in focus.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the position, please feel free to contact Annika Jensen 30750856 or CVP Quality Coordinator Mikkel Størling 34486668

Deadline

8 April 2025

Please note that we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.

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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.