Senior QA for Quality Control - Microbiology

Join our dynamic QA department as a Quality Control Microbiologist, where your passion for high-quality products will directly impact the lives of patients with chronic diseases. Thrive in a fast-paced environment filled with collaboration opportunities, ensuring the highest quality standards in our microbiology labs.

Your new role
In the QA for QC Microbiology role, you will ensure compliance with guidelines for the release of top-quality products by reviewing and approving GMP documents for microbiological test methods and lab equipment. You will also conduct analyses using isolators, autoclaves, and MALDI-TOF, while contributing to the development and validation of microbial methods for new products, and supervising quality activities at our QC laboratories in Gentofte and Bagsværd.

 Your key responsibilities will include:

• Set the direction from a QA perspective in collaboration with stakeholders. Participate, support and guide QA colleagues.  
• Manage Deviations (DVs) and Change Requests (CRs) and qualification of new equipment and validation of new test methods.
• Manage stakeholders to prioritize lab tasks and ensure close collaboration conducting QA Presence.
• Approval of SOPs to ensure products meet quality standards and compliance requirements, and coordinate trainings within the area.

You will undergo a structured and individual training program, and you can expect increasingly more responsibility. You will have an individual development plan to ensure continuous development and realization of your full potential. Equally important, we have a high focus on a great work-life balance, with the flexibility to work from the office and home. 

Your new department
You will join a team in a highly dynamic, newly established department in Aseptic Manufacturing QA with many interfaces and stakeholders around the organization. Our team supports and oversees quality activities at our QC laboratories, ensuring the highest standards of quality and compliance in all processes.

The department has a high level of self-governance, and the working relations are informal. We value good humor and an open and honest culture. We appreciate a colleague who takes responsibility, has a positive and curious approach to new challenges and contributes to a pleasant working atmosphere. 

Your skills and qualifications
We realize that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• A master’s degree is preferred within the area but it can be compensated by long experience in the field.
• More than 5 years of experience in quality control (QC) or quality assurance and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong understanding and interest in microbiology and its applications in the pharmaceutical industry.
• It could be a benefit if you have interest in IT from a quality assurance perspective – most of the equipment in the QC labs are computerized equipment
• Proficiency in English is required.

As a person, you have excellent stakeholder management skills and can prioritize lab activities effectively. You are independent, proactive, and detail-oriented, with a strong interest in microbiology. You excel in a collaborative environment and can build strong relationships with team members and stakeholders. You are comfortable working in a high-paced environment and can prioritize tasks.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What we offer
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

More information
If you want to know more about the position, please contact QA Manager, Misbah Malik at +45 3079 5547.

Deadline
20 July 2025. 
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. 

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.