Are you ready to contribute to ensuring the high quality of Novo Nordisk products? Would you like to cooperate with stakeholders across the organisation and all over the world? If so, here is a challenging and exciting job opportunity as QA professional in Sourcing Operation & Strategic Sourcing QA.
The position
Selecting and approving new suppliers of outsourced services and contract laboratories as well as maintaining a high performance and compliance of contracts and agreements with existing suppliers.
You will be working closely together with quality control, regulatory affairs, purchasing/logistics, warehouse, consuming departments, and suppliers. The tasks are diverse as we have a lot of exiting projects in Novo Nordisk. This gives us a variety of challenges such as
- Setting the correct requirements
- Negotiating and maintaining quality related contracts with suppliers
- Participating in quality audit at suppliers world-wide.
A strong collaboration with all stakeholders is the key to success. In a dynamic and challenging environment with short deadlines, you make clear prioritisations and take responsibility for customer requirements in many situations, including those where the solution is not obvious.
Qualifications
You hold a MSc degree or equivalent within pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, or a related discipline
Preferably you have +3 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry or other highly regulated industry and a strong quality mindset
Experience in working in a project-oriented setting is an advantage
Experience with supplier management and auditing will be useful
Knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, materials, or relevant production processes is also an advantage
You are known for your positive mindset, flexibility and persistence and enjoy working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities. You are fluent in English, both written and spoken. Excellent collaboration and communication skills are obviously needed.
At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication and ambition help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development.
About the department
You will be joining a team of highly skilled QA specialists, professionals and supporters in the QA Process Support team working with quality assurance to the complete supply chain.
Sourcing Operation & Strategic Sourcing QA is responsible for Quality Assurance of Raw Materials and Packaging Materials going into all of Novo Nordisk A/S marketed products. We are responsible for Quality Assurance of our suppliers who are located all over the world. A combination of ensuring a high standard of incoming materials, and involvement in investigations into quality issues by the use of LEAN tools is part of our daily work. In total, we are 65 dedicated employees divided into 4 teams working closely together. We collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation and all over the world.
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication, and ambition help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development.
Contact
For further information, please contact Hanne Ahrenst Weiss on +45 30798321
Deadline
July 1st 2023
Please attach a cover letter to your application. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.
We will be calling in for interviews before the deadline, so you are encouraged to apply before the deadline.
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.
