Virus Safety Scientist

Are you ready to impact the lives of those with haemophilia and rare diseases? 

Join our engaged team at Novo Nordisk as a Virus Safety Scientist in the API MSAT Manufacturing Support department. Embrace exciting challenges and contribute to the virus and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) safety of pharmaceutical products. 

Apply today for a life-changing career! 

The Position 

As a Virus Safety Scientist, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety of pharmaceutical products from viruses and TSE agents. This includes testing cell banks and in-process samples, evaluating virus clearance, and evaluation of raw materials. You will also ensure compliance with current regulatory guidelines and prepare necessary documentation for global authorities. Additionally, you’ll support production departments by identifying and addressing virus safety impacts due to changes in cultivation or purification processes. 

While ensuring virus and TSE safety will be your primary task, you will also support cleaning and sterilization scientists. 

Your primary responsibilities include: 

• Implementing virus safety measures in mammalian cell-derived protein manufacturing. 
• Troubleshooting virus safety issues within manufacturing departments. 
• Writing and reviewing registration documentation for new biological products, as well as documentations that are requested by/for global health authorities. 
• Supporting and following up after health authority inspections. 
• Designing and supervising virus clearance studies. 
• Evaluating virus and TSE safety aspects of raw materials, Drug Substance, and Drug Product. 
• Supporting cleaning and sterilization scientists. 

Qualifications 

To succeed in this role, you should have: 

• A minimum of a master’s degree in virology, biochemical engineering, protein chemistry, biology, or a related field. 
• A solid understanding of virus safety, including biochemical characteristics of viruses, virus inactivation/clearance, persistence, infectivity, and safety. 
• Over 2 years of experience in virology and/or protein purification. 
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical production, especially downstream purification processes such as chromatography and nanofiltration, is advantageous. 
• Familiarity with cell-based assays and a general understanding of virus safety in pharmaceuticals is beneficial. 
• Knowledge of molecular detection techniques, such as PCR and Next Generation Sequencing, is useful. 
• Full professional proficiency in English. 

As a person, you are driven by achieving great results together with fellow colleagues. Further, you possess excellent communication and collaboration skills enabling you to interact with your many stakeholders from different functions and parts of the organisation. 

About the Department 

The job is within the API MSAT Manufacturing Support department, primarily located in Bagsværd. Our primary responsibility is to support drug substance manufacturing processes in yeast, bacterial, and mammalian systems from market authorization throughout the product lifecycle. To fulfil our responsibilities, we collaborate closely with the cultivation, purification, research, manufacturing, quality assurance, and regulatory teams. 

You will be part of a team of 13 scientists and specialists, focusing on different aspects of manufacturing support, including virus safety. Effective virus safety relies on collaboration across various departments, including development, cultivation, purification, analytical, and Quality Assurance. Therefore, strong communication and collaboration skills are essential for success in this role. 

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 employees 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 Ulla Falkenberg, Vice President, API MSAT Manufacturing Support, at +45 30758 890 or via email UFA@novonordisk.com; or Sheikh Rajiuddin, Scientist (Virus Safety) at: +45-344 83624 or via email: OSRU@novonordisk.com. 

Deadline  

1 December 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.