Quality Assurance Professional

Are you passionate about ensuring the highest quality standards in pharmaceutical manufacturing? Do you have a keen eye for detail and a strong commitment to compliance? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Quality Assurance Professional at Novo Nordisk in Koriyama, Fukushima. Read on and apply today!

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has equipped us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 77,000 people in 80 offices and markets our products in more than 170 countries.
You will be part of the Quality Assurance team at our Koriyama Factory in Fukushima. Our team is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of quality and compliance across all aspects of the manufacturing process. The Koriyama Factory is a dynamic and collaborative environment where innovation and teamwork drive our success. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the quality of our products and the lives of patients worldwide.

The position
As a Quality Assurance Professional, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and compliance of our manufacturing processes and products. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Approve deviations, change requests, and customer complaints, ensuring timely resolution and adherence to quality standards.
• Reviewing and approving Quality Management System (QMS) tasks, including batch document review and release.
• Verify that facilities, equipment, and utilities comply with corporate and regulatory standards for drug production.
• Partner with the Line of Business (LoB) to promote a strong quality culture across the organization through effective communication and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in pharmacy, Chemistry, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Quality Assurance within the pharmaceutical or related industry.
• Strong understanding of QMS, GMP, and regulatory compliance standards.
• Proven ability to review and approve batch documentation, deviations, change controls, and customer complaints.
• Business-level proficiency in Japanese and business level of English in reading and writing, beginner level conversation is acceptable.

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 energize 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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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