Senior QA Professional for Quality Control Laboratory

Would you like to join our exciting journey and become a valued member of a team dedicated to maintaining the highest quality standards in Product Supply Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (PS API)? If you thrive in a collaborative environment and take pride in ensuring quality assurance, while also excelling in a role that offers strong support to stakeholders, then we have an excellent opportunity for you to join us as our new Senior QA Professional in QA API Support in Kalundborg.

 

Read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

 

The position
As our Senior QA professional, you will, together with the QA team, be responsible for delivering best-in-class Quality Assurance and work with our colleagues in Line-of-Business, to ensure highest quality in QC laboratories in PS API. We can offer an exciting and challenging position, where you become part of a highly skilled team, consisting of 16 Quality Assurance employees, who act as sparring partners and problem solvers within quality assurance issues. 

 

Your main responsibilities will be:
•    To set the right level of our quality standards and ensure that compliance always meet the internal and external requirements
•    To set direction and deliver results in own role which have a significant impact within QC
•    To find solutions through a solid process and business understanding and give proactive advice to our stakeholders, to secure the establishment of simple compliant solutions within QC processes
•    To actively participate in problem-solving alongside production colleagues, maintaining a consistent presence to ensure QA oversight
•    To take a lead role in making decisions and setting directions for Quality, requiring strong communication skills and a solution-oriented approach
•    To handle complex tasks, projects and implement new technologies in QC as well as secure daily operations in QC
•    To mentor/coach more junior colleagues

 

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:
•    M.Sc./Cand. in Pharmacy, Engineering, or equivalent background
•    Experience within a GMP environment 
•    At least 5 years’ experience from a previous position within the pharma industry
•    High sense of responsibility and initiative
•    Pragmatic approach to problem-solving and a strong quality mindset
•    Fluent in English with willingness to learn Danish
•    Strong communication skills

 

On a personal level, you are a self-driven and independent person, enjoying close teamwork. You are a strong motivator of others and can stay balanced when the waves get high. You thrive in a multicultural environment working across organizational borders and management levels.  Building structures comes naturally to you and you enjoy simplifying wherever simplicity can benefit reaching the goals fast and in a sound and solid manner. You can communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders, and keep a respectful tone, even when the message is not easy.

 

The department
In our department API QA Operational and Business Support we are 35 highly dedicated employees, mostly specialized academics, divided into 2 teams. Beside the team handling the QA function for QC, the department also consists of a Business Support team. In our department we focus on maintaining a social work environment where there is a high level of engagement, focus on development while also having fun. We love professional challenges, and we take pride in delivering on our commitments. 

 

Contact
For further information, please contact Manager, Bettina Jakobsen at +45 30 75 39 84

 

Deadline
11 March 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 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.