Team manager for our Quality Assurance Lifecycle Laboratory

Imagine if all the new Coloplast products started with… you! It is no exaggeration. As our new team manager, the majority of our future products and processes will start with you and your team, right here at our pilot plan.

If you have experience withing management of laboratory, we offer you an interesting role – a hybrid between R&D and global Operations where you will gain full responsibility for our QA lifecycle laboratory in both our running production and development projects.

“This is a chance to work with quality assurance on multiple levels and at different times in a product’s life cycle. And, of course, to be the gatekeeper ensuring the best products for people with intimate health care needs,” says Nicole Damm Appelby, Head of Pilot QA.

Head up a team of dedicated quality people within laboratory work and test methods
At our pilot plant in Mørdrup, you will front our Quality Assurance Lifecycle Lab, where 8 lab technicians and 2 test method specialists are ready to welcome you. It is a hybrid team, working with both development projects, ongoing production and process development by supporting as a partner within QA, QC, Quality setups, test methods and DoE. 

”We have a team with a good mix of skills and knowledge. They collaborate really well and are looking to you to be their sounding board and assist in prioritizing their many tasks,” explains Nicole. 

Quality assurance at several levels
In this role, you will head up your team, prioritize their tasks and make sure the team continues to develop and furthermore enabling them to work at the intersection of development projects and operations. 

Specifically, you will: 
•    Be overall responsible for release of products and raw materials
•    Support audits as a QA partner together with the Head of Pilot QA
•    Ensure a strong landscape and foundation for the operational value stream
•    Ensure a strong landscape and foundation for the innovation tasks
•    Be part of our extended Coloplast Quality Management group 
•    Be a EHS supervisor for the QA Lab and be a member of the EHS committee on site 

In this role, you can look forward to working with quality on several levels of a product’s life cycle, where quality takes different shapes and forms during the entire life cycle. Along the way, you will build a broad network across the pilot plant and globally, as QA spans many functional areas. 

Be the go-to person for Quality
Across R&D and Operations, you need to be the face of Quality and be able to understand the different dynamics and structures – while maintaining a holistic view of quality. Being a good communicator, you have no problem reaching out to colleagues and having the talks about quality at a plant where we know each other across functions.
 

Finally, we imagine that you:
•    Have a master’s within the STEM field
•    Experience within management, preferably from a laboratory 
•    Have operational experience
•    Are fluent in English and preferably also Danish

Interested?  
If you would like to know more about the position, please email Head of Pilot QA, Nicole Damm Appelby on dkndap@coloplast.com. We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously, so do not hesitate to apply. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

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