Do you want to use your strong quality mind-set and great interpersonal skills to make a difference within QA? Are you eager to play an important role in ensuring the quality and safety of products for clinical trials? If so, we have an exciting opportunity waiting for you as a Advanced QA Professional and QP delegate for injectable clinical trial products in Chemical, Manufacturing and Control – Drug Product (CMC DP) Development QA, apply now!
The position
As an Advanced QA professional, you will be responsible for delivering best-in-class quality assurance of our new manufacturing processes and drug products for clinical trials. In your daily work, you will challenge and approve documents in connection with development, manufacture, stability, and status assignment of clinical batches produced in CMC and Product Supply.
You will primarily be working in Måløv and must expect traveling days as we are outsourcing more and more of our clinical batch productions to different international Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMO)s. You will participate in pre-assessments of new CMOs, act as a Subject Matter Expert at audits, conduct quality oversight and finally review and release batches at the CMOs.
Qualifications
The most important asset that you can bring to succeed in this job is a well-developed understanding of quality and a natural urge to handle quality issues at the right level, make decisions and follow-up on quality related problems.
You have a profound understanding of the important aspects of regulations, requirements and guidelines for pharmaceutical development and production and hence can navigate without adding complexity.
To succeed in this role, you:
hold a MSc in Pharmacy, Engineering, Biology, Chemistry or similar fulfil the requirements from the Danish Health Authorities to become QP delegate have a few years of experience with GMP and quality assurance - preferably within batch release/status assignment are fluent in English and Danish
It will be seen as an advantage if you have been working with outsourcing/CMO collaboration and have aseptic production experience.
On a personal level, you are a self-driven and independent person with a high sense of responsibility and initiative who can prioritise your many different tasks. You thrive in a dynamic environment, where teamwork is on the top of the agenda, and like working with many different stakeholders – internally and externally, showcasing very good communication as well as collaboration skills.
About the department
CMC Development and CMC QA are ambitious organizations with a strong culture that always seek to solve problems, have an eye for the entire business, and do our best to deliver despite any obstacles along the way. We have a high focus on delivering high quality to our customers, which is why we are looking for a Senior QA Professional to take an active part in securing our quality level.
CMC Development makes a difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world, developing, manufacturing, and distributing drug candidates for non-clinical and clinical trials.
You will become part of a department consisting of three teams where we currently are more than 35 dedicated colleagues. Our main purpose is to safeguard patient safety and ensure product quality and compliance. 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 medicines to patients in our clinical trials.
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
Contact
For further information, please contact Frederik Lindhardt at +45 3448 8259.
Deadline
28 February 2025
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