Associate Director

Novo Nordisk; Gladsaxe Kommune; On-site; DKK 847,000 - 1,245,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk is seeking an Associate Director to lead the Global QC Network Management, setting strategic direction and an enterprise-wide operating model. This role will align demand, capacity, and risks across a connected global network, influencing senior leaders and guiding investment decisions.

You will manage a team of senior professionals, shaping a forward-looking view of QC requirements and ensuring transparent governance across sites and functions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in business operations, supply chain, quality, engineering or life sciences.
• Extensive leadership in a complex global matrix organization.
• Experience establishing or developing a global capability, operating model or governance structure.
• Substantial experience in QC, pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain planning or quality.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction, operating model, governance for global QC Network Management.
• Drive the network to act as one across capacities and priorities.
• Ensure interface and prioritization with production sites.
• Translate forecasts and supply risks into network requirements and scenarios.
• Own medium/long-term network view of demand, capacity, risks.
• Lead senior decisions on prioritisation, resources, capabilities, footprint and investment.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Global matrix experience

Negotiation skills

Change management

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Associate Director, QC Network Management

Global Quality Control Business Operations Manufacturing Quality Enterprise IT & Quality Bagsværd, Denmark

Are you an accomplished leader who can bring clarity, direction and enterprise-wide alignment to a complex global quality network? Join us to establish and lead our global QC Network Management capability, connecting demand, capacity, capabilities and future risks to enable stronger decisions across the organization.

Your new role

As Associate Director, QC Network Management, you will set the strategic direction for how Quality Control plans, balances and optimises as one connected global network. You will establish the mandate, operating model, governance and multi-year roadmap for the capability, while ensuring that complex network insights are translated into clear choices and recommendations for senior decision-makers.

Leading a team of senior professionals, you will create an integrated, forward-looking view of QC demand, capacity, constraints, sample flow, capabilities and our ideal future state to ensure that the Global QC organisation is ready to deliver on our company priorities. You will work across organisational boundaries to strengthen transparency, accountability and enterprise thinking throughout the global QC network.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Setting the strategic direction, operating model, governance architecture, decision rights and performance framework for global QC Network Management.
• Driving Global QC to act as one network with respect to capacities and priorities across our global network
• Ensuring a clear interface and prioritisation with production sites
• Translating production forecasts, launches, transfers, portfolio priorities and supply risks into integrated QC network requirements and decision-ready scenarios.
• Owning the medium and long-term network view of demand, capacity, constraints, sample flow, capabilities and future risks.
• Guiding and driving senior decisions concerning prioritisation, mitigation, resources, capabilities, footprint, technology and investment.
• Leading, coaching and developing senior professionals while building succession, resilience and scalable organizational capability.

Your new department

You will lead Global QC Network Management within Global Quality Control and report to the Senior Director, Global Quality Control Business Operations. The position has global responsibility across the QC network and works closely with Global Manufacturing and Supply, including API, Aseptic Manufacturing, Finished Production, Tablets and Supply Chain.

Your stakeholder landscape will include senior Quality leadership across Manufacturing Quality, senior Supply Chain leadership and Senior leadership from Novo Nordisk manufacturing sites as well as the global ASAT and Business Operations functions .Through these partnerships, you will help align manufacturing demand and supply priorities with QC network capacity and capabilities, while presenting strategic options for managing capacity, release and network risks.

Your Skills And Qualifications

You are a strategic and organisational leader who can navigate complexity, establish accountability and create alignment across a global matrix. You combine a strong quality mindset with commercial and operational judgement, and you are comfortable constructively challenging senior stakeholders when enterprise-level choices are required.

To succeed in this position, we expect you to bring:

• A relevant master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in business operations, supply chain, quality, engineering, life sciences, operations management or a related field.
• Extensive leadership experience in a complex global matrix organization, including responsibility for senior professionals with broad and independent mandates.
• Proven experience establishing or significantly developing a global capability, operating model or governance structure.
• Substantial experience in QC, pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain planning, quality, business operations or another regulated operational environment.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to turn complex data and competing requirements into clear strategic choices.

You bring sound judgement, adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset. Just as importantly, you can balance local realities and proximity to production with the long‑term needs and resilience of a global network.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long‑term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What We Offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Salary:

For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 847.000 (Dkr) to 1.245.100 (Dkr), corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits:

The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Deadline

4 October 2026

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all applicants.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long‑term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.