Job Description

Are you passionate about maintaining high-quality standards in production? Do you have a knack for ensuring compliance in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Coordinator at Novo Nordisk’s Koriyama Factory in Fukushima. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 63,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 170 countries.
Join the Production Department at our Koriyama Factory in Fukushima, where we are committed to maintaining and improving GMP compliance and maturity levels. Our team is responsible for implementing GMP-related systems and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the site. With a focus on coordination and preparation for GMP audits, we ensure that our processes meet the highest standards. The atmosphere is collaborative and supportive, with a shared goal of excellence in production.

The position
As a GMP Coordinator, you will:

• Drive preparation and follow-up for external audits, plan internal inspections, and ensure relevant actions are taken.
• Coach the production team on GMP-related tasks, manage investigations of critical deviations, and report findings to management.
• Facilitate Lean initiatives focused on organized problem-solving, continuous improvement, and maintain an overview of GMP trends for reporting.
• Prepare and update local SOPs in compliance with regulations and manage GMP-related aspects within the department.
• Investigate customer complaints, report on defects due to human error, and develop team leaders in assembly and packaging while ensuring adherence to Novo Nordisk's GMP strategy.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of industrial experience in a GMP environment (pharmaceutical).
• Familiarity with complex production processes in GMP-regulated areas with and fluency in English and Japanese.
• Strong communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Experience in stakeholder management across all levels and an adaptable mindset suited to a global and dynamic organization.

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.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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