Senior Quality Manager

Are you enthusiastic about understanding the business and the people and driving innovation for the life-changing benefit of patients? Then, this is your moment to take the next step in your professional development in a globally expanding company. Join Novo Nordisk, Türkiye as Senior Quality Manager and get a life-changing career! This role is based in Istanbul, Türkiye, has two direct reports and directly reports to Legal, Compliance and Quality Senior Director.

The position
As Senior Quality Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring overall Quality Management System is in full compliance at the affiliate and the warehouse with all current Novo Nordisk and legislative requirements. Within this context, you need to maintain reliable quality monitoring system supporting NNTL objectives and ensure GDP and data integrity rules are followed.  You will ensure deviations are opened and closed on-time, performing root-cause analysis and securing CAPAs are taken when required. You will be also responsible of change control management and conducting quality management review meetings. You will also act as deputy QP/RP for Novo Nordisk Turkiye’s pharmaceuticals products as per local regulations and as Responsible Manager for medical devices of Novo Nordisk Turkiye as per local regulations.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Providing input to Global Audit Risk assessment tool to prepare annual external audit plan and maintaining Turkiye affiliate’s audit program
• Developing trainings and training Turkiye affiliate’s employees on quality matters and performing induction training to newcomers on Novo Nordisk Quality Management System and also providing necessary daily support to the end users, communicating necessary changes to relevant teams
• Maintaining the overview of local external requirements applicable to the affiliate and ensuring local procedures reviewed and updated in accordance with local requirements and global procedures
• Establishing a quality risk management approach in projects to ensure that quality is understood and managed by all stakeholders throughout the product life cycle and implementing better ways of working that are quality related and cost effective and demonstrating continuous improvements
• Ensuring relevant regulations are followed to manage counterfeit, diverted, falsified products and coordination with relevant stake holders
   

Qualifications
You have a minimum bachelor’s degree in Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, Chemistry, or a relevant area. You will have 8 years of experience in quality discipline and/or in pharmaceutical industry. You have excellent command over both written and spoken English.

Further sought-after skills are:

• You have strong communication and stakeholder management abilities and making things happen mindset 
• You should have to think outside-of-the-box 
• You are a high performing person and have an excellent business and industry understanding 
• You have a strong knowledge on Quality Management processes

About the Department 
Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality department is responsible for supporting Türkiye Affiliate of Novo Nordisk in all legal, ethics, compliance and quality related topics and ensuring the implementation of the global and local policies and requirements in Türkiye.
 

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 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact
To submit your application, please upload your CV and motivational letter online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline 
Apply before February 10th , 2025.
 

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.