Associate Manager in Product Supply (PS) API QA

The position

As an Associate Manager, you will assume a key role in continuing to lead, develop and shape your team and how we work with quality assurance. It will be your responsibility to ensure skills and competences of the team are aligned with the demands and requirements set by Novo Nordisk Quality as well as present and future development projects and stakeholders.The team is consisting of approximately 10 QA colleagues, that together with you will work to build and maintain a close collaboration with the stakeholders in production. Simplicity is built in all our processes and is a continuous focus in the department.To succeed in the role as Associate Manager you will need to set direction, motivate and cultivate high performance and engagement through empowerment of the team. In this role, you will report directly to the Director, and you will be part of a dynamic management group, recognized for achieving ambitious goals through collaboration across business lines. Qualifications To succeed in this position, you:- can lead, coach, and motivate your team to deliver their best- preferable, you hold a M.Sc. in pharmacy, engineering, or equivalent background. We are looking for a person with a strong business perspective and with a strategic ability to balance quality, delivery, and cost.As a person, you are well organised and create strong results by engaging your employees in taking pride in delivering on their objectives. Your ability to communicate clear and collaborate is highly required. You are comfortable being challenged by more senior stakeholders in decisions on quality issues and your high level of personal integrity and robustness enables you to integrate different views in the decision-making process. Experience in previous managerial roles is considered a plus but not a requirement. About the department PS API QA is responsible for assuring safe and innovative active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for our patients. The department API QA IM2 have highly dedicated and qualified employees led by an engaged and experienced leadership team. We perform a wide range of quality assurance activities, ranging from handling deviations, change requests and validation to quality support to optimization projects. You will be heading up a team where behavioural targets are leading the culture, and where setting direction for quality is driven through quality oversight and our ability to support and simplify our way of working. Working at 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: