QMS Specialist, Corporate Vice President Area Partner

Are you curious to use your quality expertise, experience, and mindset in the exciting area of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Oral Product Development area at Novo Nordisk?

Are you skilled in stakeholder management and ready to set the quality agenda for an entire Corporate Vice President (CVP) area? If so, you should consider applying for this exciting opportunity at Novo Nordisk for a life-changing career with us!

The Position  

In CMC Oral Product Development (OPDev), Quality Management System (QMS) represents more than a set of GMP requirements, standards and operation procedures. It embodies a culture and mindset that is continually evolving in our organization and pipeline. As a development organization, we review and develop our standards to set the right quality agenda for our new products. As our CVP QMS Partner, you’ll work with a team of QMS coordinators supporting the areas where you’ll be forming and heading up the QMS strategy for OPDev, ensuring a continuous delivery on all relevant GMP requirements, leading quality initiatives on your own and supporting the management team with proactive initiatives and quality trend analytics. Your role will involve driving preparation and participation in authority inspections and internal audits as well as working on quality Monitoring Reviews and Quality Monitoring of Trends. You will: 

• Continuously develop and set the QMS direction for OPDev in collaboration with your GMP coordinators colleagues, QA and your direct leader and the CVP.
• Drive the QMS community and continuously enhance its impact within OPDev and participate in SVP QMS network and initiatives across.
• Facilitate systematic problem-solving on our biggest challenges and help find proactive quality solutions that help our business and productivity.
• Assess quality data, drive and continuously improve monthly review and strategic initiatives proactively securing OPDev is one step ahead.
• Support daily operations, ensuring the relevant level of GMP and training and ensuring high-level GMP overview and report on quality trends.

You will have the opportunity to develop and improve how we work with quality by setting the direction and strategy for QMS as well as functioning as the area’s CVP Specialist.

You’ll work closely with the QMS network both locally and globally, and your stakeholders at CVPs and SVPs QMS partner level. 

Finally, you’ll work out of OPDev and will join a harmonious department with competent, caring, and positive colleagues. We have a strong foundation of employees with high seniority mixed with more recent newcomers.   

Qualifications  

We envision welcoming a colleague with QMS subject matter expert knowledge who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo and wants to revolutionize the way we work, aiming to drive Novo Nordisk to new and exciting goals while ensuring maintaining the highest quality standards. To succeed in this role, you must have: 

• An academic degree in a relevant field, engineering, chemistry, pharmacy, biochemistry, production engineering or equivalent.  

• Extensive experience from the pharmaceutical industry, as QMS, GMP, QA specialist or similar.

• Good communication, stakeholder management, change management skills to drive the QMS agenda on a CVP level, keeping the overview while guiding with specialist knowledge.
• Experience with project management and Lean is an advantage.
• Full professional proficiency English. Danish is an advantage.

As an individual, you’re positive, collaborative and solution-orientated, and you work systematically, logically, and proactive. You interact and communicate effectively at all organizational levels, and you take pride in solving tasks and challenges with close involvement of key stakeholders. You’re flexible and thrive in an ever-changing environment, with frequently moving priorities and handle this with your sense of urgency, structure, and overview.

You set clear direction empathetically and motivate your stakeholders to deliver their best. You thrive with driving improvement that affects a high number of people. We expect you to be solution oriented and to work systematically with a pragmatic approach and strive for simplicity in processes.  

About the CVP area 
As part of OPDev you make a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop and formulate all new processes coming out of our research units in our pilot plants, ensuring that we bring best-in-class tablets to the market. OPDev in CMC employs approximately 500 highly skilled people situated in Måløv and Ireland. Our focus is to develop and manufacture solid dose tablets for pre-clinical and clinical trial phases I, II and III covering a broad and exciting range of process technologies.
 

About the department 
The team QMS, Training & HS is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality, training and health and safety across our CVP area in Novo Nordisk. The department’s primary purpose is setting the direction for the whole CVP area. We work closely with Line of Business leaders and the QMS organization to drive compliance and improve quality. Our team is proactive, goal-oriented, and dedicated to setting direction for OPDev.

Working at Novo Nordisk  

At Novo Nordisk, we drive change instead of waiting for it. As a dynamic company in a rapidly evolving industry, we recognize that past successes may not ensure future achievements. We embrace experimentation, aiming for excellence without seeking perfection, and seize opportunities for development. From research to marketing and sales, we are all committed to advancing patient care.

  
Contact  

If you want to hear more or have questions, contact Manager Lea Bendixen at +45-30759564 

Deadline
18 May 2025

A cover letter is not necessary to apply, but please include a few sentences about your motivation for applying in your CV. To maintain a streamlined and equitable recruitment process, we kindly ask that you refrain from including 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.