Quality Assurance Specialist

Do you want to be a part of fast growing and developing team, being engaged in helping people? Are you passionate about driving changes and improvements?  If yes, join us by applying for the role of Quality Assurance Specialist in Novo Nordisk.

The position

You will be responsible for ensuring Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and their fulfilment in specified CIS Emerging Markets (CEM) countries, in accordance with Novo Nordisk and local requirements. As the Quality Assurance Specialist you will carry out and maintain all relevant processes  to ensure NN and different regulations compliance in QMS area. Position is based in Almaty. You will report to Quality Assurance Manager CEM.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring availability of Quality permission documents in Kazakhstan. Perform local batch certification (Quality and Safety Assessment) of all imported NN drug products and medical devices per Kazakhstani requirements
• Ensuring proper GxP documentation management in the CEM region. Coordinate approval of Quality documents (standard operational procedures also known as SOPs, instructions, forms etc.) provided by document owner and/or content responsible,.
• Act as a Training Coordinator. To assign/remove training per approved Job description
• Coordinate Change control, Deviations processes as a Change responsible or Deviation/Action responsible.
• Responsible for Records management. Archiving, retention responsible, Maintaining the overview of local external quality requirements applicable to CEM
• Understanding of validation and qualification processes, qualification vendors
• Responsible for Recall process.

Qualifications
We expect that you to hold Bachelor or Master’s degree in Pharmacy, chemistry or other related field. You are driven, can take initiative, and are agile in actions. Your personality is aligned with our Novo Nordisk Compliance Way, and you have upper intermediate knowledge in both written and spoken English. As well as you would have to have:

• Minimum 1-year working experience in in QA or QC division,  preferable with medicine’s production
• Solid understanding of the pharmaceutical market and its regulations
• Experience with and affinity to MS Office programmes and IT systems
• High level of work ethic
• High level of discipline and attention to good documentation
• Ability to work efficiently within given autonomy
• Proactive approach to given tasks and possible improvements

About the department

Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality department in Kazakhstan is a part of a fast-growing and developing cluster hub for Central Asia and Caucasus. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and achieve our strategic aspirations to establish global presence. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! 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). Internal candidates are kindly requested to inform their line Manager before applying.

Deadline

10.06.2025

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.