​QA Specialist – Parental Cover

Do you want to be part of a collaborative and supportive QA team and play a key role in ensuring the quality and safety of vaccines supplied to patients worldwide?

At Bavarian Nordic, our vaccines make a real difference. In this role, you will join a passionate and committed QA organization that contributes every day to protecting lives through strong quality oversight and compliance in manufacturing.
If this resonates with you, we look forward to welcoming you to our QA Drug Substance team.

Your role

As our new QA Specialist, you will take on a broad and impactful role, working closely with stakeholders across the organization to ensure high quality standards within Drug Substance production.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Setting quality direction and providing QA support to validation activities

• Managing and resolving complex quality-related issues

• Promoting a strong quality culture and driving continuous improvement initiatives across areas

• Representing QA Drug Substance in cross-functional and cross-organizational forums within Bavarian Nordic

In addition, you will contribute to a range of related QA activities:

• Change controls

• Deviations

• SOP and Documents

• Reports and protocols

Supporting the overall quality assurance processes and ensuring compliance with internal and external requirements.

Your qualifications

To succeed in this position, we expect that you:

• Have 4–5 years of relevant experience within the pharmaceutical industry, preferably from a production environment

• Possess a broad understanding of pharmaceutical processes and applicable GMP standards

• Hold a relevant educational background (e.g. Pharmacist or similar scientific degree with industry experience)

• Are fluent in English; Danish is considered an advantage

About the team and department

You will join a competent and supportive QA Drug Substance team, reporting directly to the QA Manager. The group represents a healthy mix of experienced QA professionals and newer team members, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous development.

You will also become part of our QA Operations department, comprising approximately 40 employees. The department is characterized by close cross-site collaboration, a strong quality mindset, and a shared commitment to delivering safe and compliant products to patients.

What we offer

At Bavarian Nordic, you will not only have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to people’s lives — we also offer an attractive and supportive working environment, including:

• A high-quality canteen with a wide and varied selection

• Fresh fruit and snacks available every day

• Complimentary cold soft drinks and good coffee

• An inclusive, diverse, and active staff club offering social and recreational activities

• Convenient transportation, with access to bus route 70E, running directly from Humlebæk Station to our production facilities in Kvistgaard

Ready to make a Difference? Apply Now!

Apply by clicking the ‘APPLY’ button. We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and look forward to receiving your motivated CV.

A cover letter is not required.

Applications submitted via email will not be considered. We kindly request that headhunters or recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us regarding this position.

Founded in 1994, we have +30 years of experience developing life-saving vaccines. We are a global leader in smallpox and mpox vaccines. Our commercial product portfolio contains market-leading vaccines against rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, cholera, typhoid, and Ebola. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America. Our values – our Bavarian Nordic DNA, as we like to call it – are what guide our actions every day. We act as persistent pioneers, embrace change, value being boosted by the team, and believe in protecting lives every day. If that is also a part of your DNA, we invite you to join us in Bavarian Nordic! Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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