Novo Nordisk Posted November 9, 2026

QA Professional, Koriyama Factory (Koriyama, Fukushima, JP)

Koriyama, Japan Type not listed
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About this opportunity

QA Professional, Koriyama Factory

 

Your impact begins here

As QA Professional at Koriyama Factory, you will be the quality decision-maker for batch release and for the deviations, change requests and customer complaints that sit behind it. Your judgement on batch documentation and on risks to patients and products helps make sure the finished drug products we make.

What you’ll bring

You bring a solid quality assurance background and the confidence to make clear, well-founded decisions.

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Life Sciences or a related field.

At least 2 years of experience in quality assurance within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.

Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English.

The ability to assess risks to patients and products and to give clear advice and recommendations.

What you’ll do

You will review and approve quality system tasks and provide QA oversight, so that quality is built into how Koriyama Factory works every day.

Review and release batch documentation. This is your main responsibility.

Approve deviations, change requests and customer complaints, assessing risks to patients and products along the way.

Verify that facilities and utilities meet regulatory and corporate compliance standards for drug production.

Work with the Line of Business to strengthen a high-quality mindset in day-to-day operations.

Bring in data-driven techniques and new ways of working with colleagues across functions to improve compliance and efficiency.

Who you’ll work with

You will join a positive, supportive Quality Assurance team that sits directly under Global. Colleagues help each other, and the team has strong working relationships with other departments, which makes it easier to align quickly and move from question to decision.

Day to day, you will work with the Line of Business, as well as internal and external stakeholders across the value chain, to keep compliance and quality assurance on track. You will make day-to-day decisions within standard practices and procedures and can turn to your manager and senior colleagues when you need a second view.

The role is focused on Japan, with a global outlook: you will work with colleagues around the world, so cultural understanding matters.

What you can expect here

You will be trusted to take ownership of your decisions and supported to perform at your best. Your voice counts: you will be encouraged to share your expertise, challenge how things are done and help shape better ways of ensuring factory compliance.

You will grow through hands-on experience, relevant learning offerings and the chance to work with colleagues across the value chain, building skills that go beyond your own area.

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to protect the quality of the treatments people rely on, apply for the QA Professional. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Koriyama, Japan
Employment type
Not listed

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1502 comparable Quality roles across 147 biopharma companies.

1502Comparable roles tracked
1357Currently active
147Companies hiring similar roles
54Countries represented

Salary context

261 of 1502 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · QC Lab Technician (Lilly Contractor - Fixed Term) · Lilly $13/hr – $29/hr (≈ $26,998–$60,507/yr)
Highest disclosed · VP, Quality Assurance · City Therapeutics $340,000/yr – $360,000/yr
Peer group range $43,753 – $350,000 (median $123,250)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1502 comparable roles

United States589
Ireland88
Germany72
China72
France67
India57

+ 48 more countries

Seniority mix

731 of 1502 peers have a known seniority level

Manager223
Senior189
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc98
Associate65
Director46
Associate Director45
Principal33
Senior Director25
Executive/VP7

Therapeutic area mix

3 of 1502 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease2
Respiratory1

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How we calculate "similar"

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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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