Manager for Sourcing Quality Control

Are you an experienced and empathetic leader, who is passionate about motivating your employees and helping them perform at their best? Do you love working within a GMP regulated environment where you will safeguard patient safety? Would you like to join a well-established department to lead a newly established team? If so, you might be one of the 5 Managers we are looking for to head up one of our newly established teams within our Sourcing Quality Control (QC) department. Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position
As Manager for Sourcing QC you will head up one of the teams focussing either on Chemical control, Physical control, or Support & Development.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Setting the direction according to Novo Nordisk Way (our company values), driving performances to reach both targets and department goals, and coaching the team
• Contributing to developing our QC area together with the management team
• Ensuring stable operations as well as making sure that delivery and agreements are met in a timely manner
• Supporting the maintenance of technical equipment
• Maintaining a safe working environment, compliant with ISO and OHSAS certifications
• Driving and supporting the diversity and inclusion culture in the team

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

• Hold at least a bachelor’s degree coupled with a background within analytical equipment, QC, QA or GMP production
• Possess a previous management experience with the ability to coach and motivate your direct reports to deliver their best (preferably more than 3 years of experience)
• Are fluent in English and Danish, both written and spoken

As a person, you are a great leader who takes pride in engaging, motivating, and enabling your employees to succeed. You take care of your team while making sure that the business is running and delivering on target. Last but not least, you enjoy working within a GMP regulated environment, in a position that contains lots of freedom and empowerment as well as huge business impact.

About the department

Sourcing QC is responsible for quality control of incoming materials for Novo Nordisk's global supply chain. The department conducts chemical and physical analysis of raw materials, excipients, and packaging materials to ensure that only goods meeting specified quality and patient safety requirements are forwarded to Novo Nordisk production sites. Sourcing QC holds approximately 100 employees (Operators, Laboratory Technicians, Professionals and Specialists) and are located at our site in Hillerød, close to our raw material warehouse.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 60,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Hanne Lindvig Ziegler, Director Sourcing QC, at +45-30797812.

Deadline

2 June 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.