Quality Assurance Manager

Do you thrive in a challenging and ever-changing environment? Are you motivated by challenges requiring a high level of professional competencies and leadership experience? Are you passionate about working with people and make them succeed in a complex environment with diverse stakeholder groups?

If you can say yes to the description above, then you might be our new Manager in Product Supply (PS) API QA, Insulin Manufacturing 2 (M2) in Kalundborg.

Join API QA and be part of an exciting journey in a company with deeply rooted people focus and a proud purpose. You have the possibility to be part of a company that is changing lives every day.

The position
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 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 role, you should have:

About the department
PS API QA is responsible for assuring safe and innovative active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for our patients. The department API QA M2 have highly dedicated and qualified employees led by an engaged 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: https://www.novonordisk.com/careers/working-at-novo-nordisk.html

Contact
For further information, please contact Director Troels Bundgaard Jensen on +45 3075 0411

Deadline

14 August 2025.

Interviews will be held throughout the period, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.