Vice President, Quality Control - Emerging Technologies

This position can be based in either Denmark, UK or USA. 

Are you looking for a strategic role as a senior leader? Do you have a background from manufacturing and/or quality control in a highly regulated industry? Would you like to be part of developing and leading our Quality Control areas across an organisation with thousands of employees and several manufacturing sites globally? Then we might have the right position for you.

The Position
With a direct report to the Corporate Vice President (CVP), you will head up a Vice President area with a leadership team of five senior leaders and over 200 employees in Denmark, USA and Ireland responsible for performing all Drug Product Quality Control (QC) analyses in Emerging Technologies, including release test from production units, stability samples and validation activities. Your departments also handle validation, transfer and implementation of chemical and PAT methods for new products as well as digital and automated solutions across all QC units handling solid dosage form products.

You are very visible on senior level across Novo Nordisk, Product Supply and Emerging Technologies since you are also responsible for the strategy for the global ET QC group and an influential member of the Novo Nordisk Laboratory steering group and the QC Innovation Steering Group.  Most of your time will be spent in Denmark (Måløv and Taastrup), however you should expect 7 travel days a month to visit QC areas outside Denmark.

 
Qualifications
Since the position is on senior level in a complex large scale matrix organisation, you are already an experienced senior leader, e.g. leading organisations through others, with five or more years as a people manager. You do not necessarily have experience from QC, but you have experience from a complex matrix organisation within a highly regulated industry within production, e.g., pharma, food, laboratories. You are used to managing senior stakeholders across manufacturing functions, including introduction of new products, and you have successfully led larger changes or transformations, including management of senior stakeholders.  You are recognized for and enjoy both operational and strategic leadership from production, e.g., leading through leaders, production planning, technology development, production methods, automation, QC, QA.  You are a holistic and true business leader, and you always do things in the perspective of the company’s over-all strategy. You respect your colleagues and create a psychological safe environment that fosters an open dialogue. You have a diplomatic and assertive behaviour and do not give up when times are a bit challenging. You are an innovative leader and like sharing ideas with your team and the business, and you have many examples where you successfully have made ideas come alive. You hold a bachelor's degree within natural science (preferred) with approximately 15 years of working experience, and you are fluent in English.

The Department

Drug Product Manufacturing Science and Technology and Quality Control (DP MSAT & QC) is part of Emerging Technologies, where we develop and produce all tablet products in Novo Nordisk. We are responsible for the production processes, analytical methods and technological innovation to products on the market and employ more than 350 people of different nationalities and educational backgrounds.

Contact

For further information or specific questions, please contact Senior Executive Search Partner, Michael Pasternack at [email protected].  If you believe that you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool.  

Deadline
Please submit your application via our online application tool by 10 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 resume or 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.