QA Manager

Join a life science company in transformation and contribute to the successful production of innovative next-generation adjuvants for important vaccines utilized worldwide.

Take the lead and leave your mark on future QA processes
In this position, you will report to the Site Director for Croda Denmark and lead, motivate, develop, and guide a team of 12 dedicated professionals. Effective resource allocation and planning is a big part of the job as well as ensuring that your teams performance meets the quality, project, and organizational goals. You will oversee your team working with batch documentation, deviations, change management, audits and customer complaints, just as you will contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice quality strategies, policies, and processes. Likewise, you will support the QA Department in obtaining a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, compliance, and data integrity. The role also requires that you understand release activities, which includes securing the release of batches as well as compliance and efficient GMP systems. Furthermore, you will participate as a QA representative in quality improvement projects cross-functionally and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

Strong QA profile with proven leadership abilities
For this position, it is expected that you hold a relevant scientific M.Sc. as well as experience from a QA position within a pharmaceutical or biotech company, where you have acquired knowledge from a quality assurance set-up including quality processes, GMP, and batch release. Likewise, you are used to communicating QMS and GxP requirements and reporting to stakeholders at all levels in an organization. To succeed in this role, you need a demonstrated talent to lead, develop, and grow a team to reach its full potential. Lastly, you must be fluent in English and Danish both written and spoken.

Your leadership style is characterized by your ability to communicate a clear direction as well as your passion for motivating others to unleash their potential and enhance their performance. Additionally, you need to have the ability to plan multiple activities with competing priorities. Moreover, you have strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, equipped to work across multiple departments, liaising with internal and external stakeholders. On a more personal level you put great emphasis on detail coupled with the ability to engage and complete projects and assignment. Finally, you excel in improving internal processes and thrive in a dynamic workplace. You have a positive attitude and a structured and solution-oriented approach to your job.

Contribute to the production of life-changing vaccines
You will join a group of highly dedicated qualified employees and take an active role in the transformation of Croda - participating in business critical GMP-related projects and collaborating with colleagues at other sites around the world. The recruitment process is carried out by Venaris Executive Search (www.venaris.dk). For more information regarding the position, please reach out to Senior Executive Search Consultant Lars Nordlund Bidstrup on +45 31233018. All requests will be handled confidentially. If this position is for you, do not hesitate to apply by uploading your CV - it is not necessary to include a cover letter.

About Croda
Croda Denmark is one of the world's largest producers of adjuvants for human vaccines. The company operates under Pharma GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) - successfully developing, manufacturing and marketing high-quality adjuvants for their pharmaceutical customers worldwide. Its products contribute to the efficacy of vaccines against cervical cancer, polio hepatitis, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, corona, botulism and anthrax. Crodas manufacturing facility in Frederikssund, Denmark is of the highest quality standards and runs the only aseptic GMP manufacturing site for vaccine adjuvants globally. The site includes engineering, production, QA/QC, administration, warehouse and distribution and has approximately 100 employees. Croda Denmark has a passionate team committed to continuously developing and manufacturing innovative next-generation adjuvants for the vaccine business.

Croda Denmark A/S became a part of Croda in 2019 through the acquisition of Brenntag Biosector in Denmark. Croda is a global company with headquarters in the UK, which develops and sells innovative, sustainable, high performance specialty chemicals utilized in the production of diverse products within healthcare, cropcare, personal care and other areas. For more information about Croda, visit www.croda.com.