Senior Quality Assurance Officer

Are you detail-oriented? Have you got experience within quality assurance or maybe you’re drawn to compliance and you’re eager to dive deeper into this field? Then we’ve got the perfect opportunity for you We are currently looking for a Senior Quality Officer for our affiliate in Egypt, this position is located in New Cairo, Egypt, and directly reports to Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality Director.

**The Position**

As a Senior Quality Assurance Officer, you will be responsible for Ensuring products and business processes meet Novo Nordisk and Local quality standards, also ensuring that NN Egypt Quality System is always implemented and maintained according to corporate guidelines, along with preparing, reviewing, and approve procedure and content on QualityDocs, ensure affiliate adherence to NN and Local Quality Standards, Follows up on audit findings and corrective action plans.

Your main responsibilities will include:

- Act as ISOTrain coordinator for the affiliate and QMS Training in affiliate; deliver training in Novo Nordisk QMS to new employees, Quality Training for Distributor Partners.
- Advise and Support affiliate units within QMS in the following activities: Nonconformity, Deviation handling, Internal Complaints, and Change Control.
- Evaluation of Transport and Storage conditions for free medical samples and products and ensure compliance with quality standards.
- Ensure completeness of records for change control, deviations, document control, and other QA documentation.
- Preparation of Quality Agreements & updating them, Participate and performing internal & external audits, and Acting as Local Archive administrator

Some other tasks will be review and approval of repackaging activities provided by distribution partners, Qualification and Validation of Refrigerators, Iceboxes, warehouse, and other facilities and utilities, Review and approval of Calibration certificates of thermometers and Thermos hygrometers and Updating the Master list of external requirements and follow-up with relevant departments in case of new/updated requirements.

**Qualifications**

We require you to have a minimum of 4-6 years of Quality Assurance and/or quality-related experience in the pharmaceutical industry with progressively increasing responsibility, You hold a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy is a must, Familiarity with local processes and quality systems, with Excellent written & verbal communication skills.

Other important requirements are:

- you have excellent command over both written and spoken English and Arabic.
- Self-managed, strong personal drive, good learning skills, team player, and ability to engage with colleagues and peers toward delivering excellent performance and results.
- Personal Time Management, Sets goals & prioritizes tasks for own work on a short-term basis. Meets deadlines & makes regular progress reports on performance. Keeps track & informs management about the fluctuation in workload. Performs well with multitasking. Adjust priorities in accordance with changing circumstances. Keeps all relevant people informed of current & future plans.
- Experience in managing quality systems is a must.
- Auditing experience is preferable.

**About the Department**

**Working at Novo Nordisk**

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things - from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

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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.