Job Description
Be part of a high-performing team at a leading pharmaceutical company, helping to defeat serious chronic diseases. As a Legal & Compliance Counsel, you will be a business partner for our Business Units to enable growth while protecting the company from major risks.
About Novo Nordisk
We are a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation and supervision in diabetes care. Our heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases.
The Position
We are seeking a Legal & Compliance Counsel to utilize expertise in legal and compliance, enabling Novo Nordisk business in Japan to achieve growth initiatives while protecting the company from major legal, compliance, and reputational risks.
Responsibilities
- Empower business leaders to take informed risks to achieve growth while safeguarding the company against significant legal, compliance, and reputational threats.
- Advise, draft, review, approve, and negotiate various types of contracts to enable business leaders to achieve growth initiatives while protecting the company from major legal, compliance, and reputational risks.
- Proactive Plan, lead, and execute the implementation of the requirements of local regulations and Novo Nordisk's global policies.
- Identify opportunities for optimizing existing processes and policies, and plan, lead, and execute optimization projects.
- Nurture a strong compliance culture and promote such mindset among employees.
Qualifications
- Law degree preferred, and Lawyer qualification in Japan or in foreign jurisdictions such as US, UK, or Australia is required.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience at law firm or legal division in a company is required.
- Must have a proactive business partner and Legal/Compliance mindset, and skills for clear and logical communication.
- Experience in pharmaceutical industry is highly preferred.
- Proficiency in Japanese and English (written & verbal).
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 energise 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.
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