Do you want to make a difference within leadership and take on the responsibility of heading up a team of dedicated and specialized QA Employees? Do you feel motivated by challenges requiring a high level of professional competency and leadership experience? Then we may have just the right job for you, as we are looking for a manager to head up our CMC OP Dev (Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control, Oral Product Development) Facility-Equipment QA team in Måløv.

Apply today for a life-changing career.

 

The position

Our department is growing and therefore we are dividing a QA team into two.

In this position, you will therefore lead a newly established team of highly competent and experienced QA professionals who are working with QA tasks within Facility, Equipment and IT.

The team will be expanding with several new QA’s during 2025 reaching around 8 people.

You will be responsible for:

Developing Team Skills and Collaboration: Ensuring the team possesses the necessary skills and competencies, while fostering strong collaboration with stakeholders. Simplifying Processes: Embedding simplicity into processes and workflows, making it a continuous focus within the department. Providing Leadership and Direction: Acting as a visible and approachable leader who actively listens, sets a clear direction, and aligns team efforts with organizational goals. Coaching and Employee Development: Offering sparring, coaching, and support to enhance employee well-being, growth, and professional development. Collaborating with Leadership: Reporting directly to the Director and contributing as a member of the CMC OP Dev QA & Analysis QA management team, which includes the Director and four Managers.

Qualifications

The most important asset that you can bring into this job is a well-developed understanding of leadership and quality and a natural urge to handle issues at the right level, make decisions and follow-up. 

To succeed in this role, you have:

Master within pharmacy, engineering, biotechnology or similar Experience from a pharmaceutical company Experience with leadership and developing people Experience working with Lean and continues improvement Written and verbal communication skills in English (Danish will be an advantage)

 

You have a can-do attitude proactively striving for higher levels of performance not being afraid of being challenged by peers and employees. You need to have an excellent quality mind-set being able to balance compliance and product quality when making decisions and can stay firm when needed to secure the quality and compliance aspects.

You are well organized and create strong results by engaging your employees in taking pride in delivering on their objectives.

You are self-driven and can work independent but understand that teamwork is on top of the agenda, and a requirement for us to succeed.

It is essential that you strive in working with people and in developing people and the organisation.

It will be an advantage if you have experience working with qualification/validation of equipment/facility and IT (Either as a professional or as a leader)

 

About the department

You will become part of a department (CMC OP Dev QA & Analysis QA) consisting of 4 teams where we currently are 42 dedicated colleagues. You will be part of a strong culture, where we strive for high psychological safety, give regular feedback, and understand that the most important thing we have is our people. Our main purpose is to safeguard patient safety and ensure product quality and compliance in the CMC area, and ultimately release drug candidates for clinical trials. As part of Novo Nordisk Quality, we support the business and strive for simplicity every single day, to ensure Novo Nordisk’s critical delivery of medicine to patients.

 

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For em-ployees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

 

Contact

For further information, please contact QA Director Casper Yding at +45 3079 7015.

 

Deadline

05 March 2025

Please note that we will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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.

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.