Due Diligence & Integration Quality Director

Are you an expert in GMP, GCP, GLP, and health authority regulations? Are you ready to make a significant impact on the quality of our products and services? We are seeking a dedicated professional to join our NNQ Due Diligence & Integration team at Novo Nordisk. If you are passionate about ensuring compliance and driving improvements, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position
As a Due Diligence & Integration Quality Director at NovoNordisk, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with health authority regulations and requirements all the way from the Due Diligence activities and until the new project is fully handed over to NovoNordisk. You will be a significant contributor to the development and execution of the Q functional integration strategies.
Your responsibilities include supporting and leading pre-due diligence and due diligence projects, providing expertise in GMP, GCP, and GLP. You will actively be building up and maintaining a network related to Quality topics on Due Diligence and Integration, ensuring optimal integration of acquired assets, technology, and companies into NovoNordisk QMS.

Furthermore, you will:

• Act as NNQ expert within Due Diligence and Integration in Quality across the EVP areas; Product Supply, Corporate Quality, IT, Corporate Development and Business Development ensuring compliance with health authority requirements.
• Lead evaluation of all Quality aspects of new asset opportunities and potential new companies, contributing to the development of the Q functional integration strategy.
• Maintain state-of-the-art competences and know-how within Due Diligence and Integration in Quality, actively capturing and sharing novel substance matter.
• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and recommend process, product, or service improvements within Due Diligence and Integration in Quality.
• Advise on deals, potential risks, and impact from a quality perspective on behalf of the global quality organisation.
• Train and mentor others.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, we are looking for a candidate with the following qualifications:

• An academic degree, e.g., B.Sc. in Engineering.
• Extensive and relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Expertise in GMP, GCP, GLP, and/or device regulations (MD/DCC).
• Experience in M&A in Pharma, including Due Diligence and Integration.
• Have a profound business understanding.
• Good English skills and experienced presenter.

As a person, you operate with an exceptional degree of independence, adding value to every deal phase by providing crucial professional insights and shaping potential integration strategies from a quality perspective. You excel in driving changes, fostering innovation, and embracing new ways of working. Your ability to engage stakeholders, collaborate across boundaries, and lead discussions to mutual conclusions is fundamental to your approach. Additionally, your talent for improving work processes and documentation structures to enhance efficiency and compliance sets you apart in complex environments.

About the department
The NNQ Due Diligence & Integration team is responsible for ensuring the quality of our products and services throughout the due diligence and integration process. We work closely with various EVP areas and stakeholders to evaluate new asset opportunities, develop integration strategies, and drive improvements in quality. Our team is dedicated to maintaining compliance with health authority requirements and driving innovation in our ways of working.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.
 
Contact
For further information, please contact Simone Frandsen, Vice President at sify@novonordisk.com.
 
Deadline
22 May 2024. 
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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.