Are you passionate about ensuring the highest quality standards in aseptic manufacturing? Do you thrive in a role as indirect leader where you are responsible for driving process excellence in Aseptic Manufacturing, Quality Assurance enterprise-wide? Join us as a Process Quality Assurance Expert (director level position) and be a part of our mission to deliver life-changing products to patients worldwide. Read more and apply today for a rewarding career!

 

The position

As a Quality Assurance Expert in our global management team in the area Aseptic Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, you will play a vital role in upholding our commitment to quality and compliance across Aseptic Manufacturing. Your expertise will directly impact our ability to deliver safe products to patients around the world through a focus on performance, measured by stability, control, sustainable compliance, continuous improvement and simplicity for the end-user. You will act as informal leader, guiding and setting direction for members of the process groups in AM QA in close collaboration with the VP of Aseptic Manufacturing Process Excellence. Together you will ensure successful end-to-end business process management. You will be reporting to the Corporate Vice President of Aseptic manufacturing, Quality Assurance and be a part of a global management team with team members based at our sites in Denmark, US, Brazil, France and China. As a part of the management team, you will contribute to setting at clear strategic direction for process management and drive initiatives with significant impact on the business.

 

The main responsibility of the role is to support quality owned processes on behalf of the CVP, including:

Ensuring business process performance and compliance of the following processes – Wash and sterilise primary packaging, Formulate product; Wash and depyrogenate vials and cartridges; Fill product; Off load product; Freeze dry filled product; Cap freeze dried filled product; Sterilise filled product; Inspect product; Filtration of drug product.

Ensure Novo Nordisk is in compliance with requirements and industry standards across Aseptic Manufacturing processes.

Drive strategic initiatives that have a significant impact on our future business.

Set direction for the Aseptic Process Quality Assurance (APQA) network to support development and improve quality management systems.

 

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have:

A Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering or Business.

A solid understanding of quality, with a minimum of 8-10 years experience in pharma. Leadership or process management experience will be a benefit.

Strong communication and analytical skills.

Proven ability to explain complex issues to senior management and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Fluency in English, both written and verbal.

 

As a person, you are proactive in seeking feedback and learning opportunities, with a constant focus on patient safety and product quality. Your ability to mentor and coach others will foster a collaborative environment within the organisation, driving motivation for optimization and continuous improvement.

 

About the department

Join our Aseptic Manufacturing Quality department, a global quality function with approx. 800 employees, responsible for producing aseptically across eight sites worldwide. Our organisation supports the production of a diverse range of products, including those for rare diseases, diabetes, and obesity. With a global presence, we are committed to maintaining the highest quality standards and driving continuous improvement in our processes.

 

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 45 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life-changing.

 

Contact

For further information, please contact Lonni Glanville, Corporate Vice President at lnng@novonordisk.com

 

Deadline

18 May 2025

 

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.