QA Principal Scientist

Are you passionate about quality and have deep expertise in cleaning within a GMP-regulated environment? Can you simplify processes, drive continuous improvements, and confidently present complex issues during inspections? If so, you could be our new Cleaning QA Principal Scientist in API Quality Assurance—an exciting and rare opportunity to shape cleaning processes in both daily operations and projects. Apply now!

The position
We seek a QA Principal Scientist with solid cleaning knowledge to set direction within this important area across API QA.
Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Support your colleagues as well as our stakeholders in the production areas. 
• Serve as a daily sparring partner and coach for your colleagues, and as such you must have a good overview of ongoing tasks and deliveries.
• Participate in production projects, ensure QA oversight.
• Be QA responsible for various tasks within the organisation.

In other words, you will be a visible and trusted presence in API QA, someone colleagues and management rely on for your high integrity and strong business acumen. You will navigate a broad stakeholder landscape, both within and across the quality organization. As a member of the management team, you will play a key role in setting the scientific direction for quality assurance.

Qualifications
 To succeed in this role, you:

• Hold a Master´s degree in pharmacy, engineering or natural science. 
• Have minimum 5 years of relevant experience from the pharma industry within QA.
• Have experience and are passionate about general GMP, process optimization, problem solving in a pharmaceutical company.
• Have strong knowledge of QA methods, processes and regulations.
• Are fully proficient in English, in speech as well as in writing.

 
As a person you are motivated by the opportunity to apply your deep expertise in a highly complex and ever-evolving work environment. You excel at sharing your professional insights and have strong communication skills, making you a valuable source of knowledge and a mentor to dedicated colleagues across the organization. Experience in teaching and coaching will be an advantage.

About the department
In this position, you will be based in the QA Manufacturing II (M2) department which is responsible for assuring the quality of the API and intermediates manufactured. We perform a wide range of quality assurance activities, ranging from handling deviations, change requests, validation to quality support to optimization projects in a large CVP production area with several factories and multiple processes. We have a great collaboration with our colleagues in the production and value a high degree of flexibility and individual responsibility.
The department consists of 55 highly dedicated and qualified employees divided into four teams.

About Novo Nordisk
The Novo Nordisk site in Kalundborg is a small city, about 60 minutes from Copenhagen and Odense. Here, thousands of colleagues work together to deliver quality products to millions of people around the world living with chronical diseases – manufacturing more than half of the entire global supply of insulin. We take pride in applying our skills and our dedication towards the mission of helping people, and we enjoy a healthy and good-spirited work environment with many opportunities for personal and professional development.
If you wish to learn more about working at Novo Nordisk, here is a good place to begin: https://www.novonordisk.com/careers/working-at-novo-nordisk.html 

Contact
For further information, please contact Director Troels Bundgaard Jensen at +45-30750411

Deadline
12 February 2025

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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.