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Your main accountabilities will be to:

• Design, coordinate, and execute internal and external events
• Manage travel and accommodation for speakers
• Ensure seamless collaboration with external event planners on larger events, overseeing project management, event quality, and budgets
• Be responsible for communication in terms of materials and channels
• Act as event host to ensure quality before events, welcoming participants, and facilitating the flow of event

Qualifications

• As an Event Coordinator you need to have at least 2-3 years of experience in a similar role within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry. Moreover, you need to have a Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, marketing or administrative.

To be successful in this role, you need to have:

• Proven experience in event planning and coordination
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Knowledge of budget management and financial planning
• Familiarity with event management software and tools

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The position

• As an GCM DP Operations Manager you will be responsible for ensuring Novo Nordisk’s interests with regards to short to midterm capacity, compliance, quality, manufacturing readiness and activities at the CMO.
• You will have a substantial impact on the business with the CMO with regards to strategy input, prioritization and following up on agreed actions and improvements. 

Your other responsibilities will be to

• Identify and implement changes and process improvements in order to create a strong and solid foundation for future growth in this area. 
• Develop new work standards and setups for collaboration between GCM DP and the CMO delivering aseptic manufacturing activities and participate in project work to the extent needed to ensure new projects enter operations in a satisfactory manner.
• Develop and follow up on joint KPI’s and create a robust working relation with the CMO
• Initiate and implement changes to maintain and improve operations.
• Support CMOs (and can act as back-up for other Operations Managers) all over the world.
• Travel of ~3-5 weeks per year is expected.

Qualifications

• You hold a relevant scientific education corresponding to MSc or BSc within Pharmacy, Engineering, or Supply Chain. You have an excellent written and verbal communication skills and good command of English. Preferably you have;
• 10 years of experience within pharmaceutical manufacturing / packaging and cGMP.
• 5 years of experience with outsourcing or managing global CMOs.
• Experience in Production, Manufacturing Operations, Project management or Supply Chain management.
• Experience in handling Changes, Deviations and Customer Complaints.
• Knowledge of regulatory guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry.
• Excellent relationship management skills.
• Team-player demonstrating collaborative behaviour.
• Effective communicator providing clear and timely information to stakeholders.
• Strong GxP knowledge and understanding
• Technical, analytical, and structured approach to problem solving.

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The position

• As the Novo Nordisk Local CMO QA areas specialist on-site at our CMO in Port Elisabeth, you will report to the QA management based in Denmark and have a close collaboration with our local affiliate based in South Affrica.
• You will ensure daily QA oversight and other Novo Nordisk (NN) QA activities and be working in collaboration with team colleagues in Denmark and in India to ensure that Novo Nordisk insulin products produced in South Affrica to local and global markets are in compliance with requirements in Novo Nordisk specifications, quality agreement, local requirements and EU GMP. Your other responsibilities will be to
• Review and status assignment of batch documents for manufactured products and release for marketing
• Handle deviations, change requests, etc, occurring during local manufacturing 
• Quality Assurance Oversight; Daily QA oversight at the local facility including frequent shop floor presence. Oversight of batch related activities such as batch release, participate in on-site full batch review, parallel batch review activities, process activities and Product Quality Review. 
• Quality Assurance presence at the CMO facility, warehouse, manufacturing, and packaging lines. Perform periodic checks and spot checks in topics such as equipment calibration status, data integrity, qualification and validations status as well as aseptic behaviour.
• Support manufacturing projects when expanding and improving production capacity and quality. Preparation of project related documents. Quality assurance (QA) presence during project activities.

Qualifications

• You hold a University Degree/Diploma or equivalent in Pharmacy, engineer or other relevant technical/scientific academic education complemented with a continuous further education within the relevant professional subjects, quality assurance, GMP and within the resource area.
• You have at least 8 years of experience within aseptic manufacturing and preferably experience from quality assurance. You have a thorough knowledge of EU GMP and some international experience.
• You have extensive qualifications within deviation/investigation handling and change request handling within aseptic manufacturing.

Furthermore, we expect that:

• You have an excellent written and verbal communication skills and good command of English
• Yohave an understanding of cLEAN and use of it in the pharmaceutical industry
• As a person you have strong quality mind-set, strong communication skills and proficient stakeholder management skills and strong inter-cultural understanding and are proficient in prioritization and execution of activities.