Human Health Product Quality Manager

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Join our Global Human Health Quality team at Novonesis, where we ensure that products meet the highest standards of quality and food safety before reaching customers worldwide. As a Human Health Product Quality Manager , you will play a critical role in safeguarding product integrity across the value chain and enabling business success through strong quality leadership.

You will become part of a team of highly skilled Product Quality Managers and global Human Health Quality professionals who collaborate closely across functions and business areas. Together, we continuously challenge and improve processes, while maintaining a strong team spirit and enjoying the journey.

The Role & Your Impact

As Human Health Product Quality Manager , you will act as the key quality representative in the Human Health Product Management Team (PMT), driving quality decisions and ensuring compliance across the product lifecycle. This is a cross-functional, strategic role where you combine technical expertise with stakeholder influence to ensure products consistently meet customer and regulatory expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Understand current and future customer and market quality requirements and translate them into actionable priorities

• Lead quality-related discussions and decision-making within the Product Management Team

• Ensure compliance and consistent quality standards across the Human Health value chain

• Act as the “voice of the customer” on quality, ensuring end-to-end alignment

• Drive initiatives to reduce customer complaints and improve product performance

Additional responsibilities:

• Define and maintain correct product specifications

• Make final decisions on Finished Goods dispensations

• Support resolution of complex non-conforming products (NCRs) and product-related complaints

• Collaborate with global and local quality teams to improve processes and efficiency

• Ensure cross-industry alignment and continuous improvement

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in a scientific field

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably within Novonesis or legacy companies

• Experience as a people manager or project manager

• Strong knowledge of Human Health cultures and/or proteins, including development, formulation, manufacturing processes, and product application

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Core competencies:

• Strong leadership and decision-making in complex and uncertain environments

• Ability to communicate clearly and facilitate problem resolution across stakeholders

• Proven stakeholder management in a matrix organization

• Capability to navigate evolving processes while maintaining business continuity

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

• Experience working across quality, product development, and commercial functions

• A solution-oriented mindset with strong focus on quality standards

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements

• Curiosity and willingness to learn new scientific concepts, regulatory frameworks, and tools

What We Offer

At Novonesis, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the quality agenda in a growing Human Health business. We offer a collaborative and global environment where you can develop your expertise, influence business-critical decisions, and work alongside dedicated colleagues who support one another.

We foster a culture that values continuous improvement, innovation, and teamwork, where having fun and challenging the status quo go hand in hand.

Ways of Working / Working Conditions

• Hybrid working model

• Standard working hours: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

• Online meetings with international stakeholders are expected

• Ad hoc national and international travel may be required

• Cross-functional collaboration in a global matrix organization

Compensation & Benefits

• Expected base salary: $125,000 - $145,000 level, dependent on experience

• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution

• Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time

• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance

• Healthcare savings account option

• Employee assistance program

• Parental leave

• Tuition reimbursement

• All benefits begin on your first day
  

Relevant Information

• Location: Franklinton NC or Milwaukee, WI area

• Remote Type: Hybrid

• Application deadline: August 10, 2026

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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