Legal Director for PSQIT Manufacturing

5 days ago


Gladsaxe Kommune, Denmark Novo Nordisk AS Full time

Jobbeskrivelse
Placering
Bagsværd, Denmark

Jobkategori
Legal, Compliance & Audit

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Are you ready to take on a corporate legal leadership role to enable Novo Nordisk’s production capacity scale up, and thereby help us improve the lives of patients? Do you want to lead an ambitious and high performing legal team supporting Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply Quality & IT (PSQIT) units? Are you driven by strategic thinking, ability to lead and set direction, and develop people, in a complex stakeholder landscape?

Then, you may be the Legal Director for the PSQIT Manufacturing & Ethics (M&E) team we are looking for

The Position
As the M&E Legal Director, you will be overall responsible for the legal services provided to several of our PSQIT units, including API Kalundborg, Finished Production Manufacturing, Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Product & Drug Substance, and Quality, as well as overall responsible for PSQIT business ethics compliance. You will work on and manage exciting legal issues and projects with high business impact, and will interact directly with senior management in different business functions as well as across the Global Legal and Compliance organisation. As a member of the Pharma Law management team, you will take an active part in forming and implementing the team’s strategies.

Your key responsibilities will include leading a team of 6 employees to provide legal support to our PSQIT units across HQ and production sites around the world, ensuring compliance with external and internal rules. Key areas include:

  • API Kalundborg; Legal partner to our Kalundborg production site, in close collaboration with API mgmt. managing key legal matters, in particular related to our expansion projects and scaling activities
  • Finished Production Manufacturing, Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Product & Drug Substance; Legal partner to our local production sites, and CMO local operations
  • Quality; Legal partner to our Quality organisation, managing key legal matters related to the quality of our products and operations, incl. handling of legal complexities related to Good Practice quality guidelines (GxP) and regulations; and authority inspections
  • PSQIT Business Ethics Compliance; Working closely with PSQIT mgmt., Business Ethics Compliance Office, and other key stakeholders, lead development and implementation of PSQIT Business Ethics Compliance program, focused on anti-corruption, data privacy, and human rights
  • PSQIT Legal & Compliance network; Lead network of PSQIT Legal & Compliance employees at NN production sites worldwide

You will also be responsible for focusing on key opportunities and risks, incl. optimising resource allocation and acting as a global legal subject matter expert, setting direction within PSQIT M&E focus areas, incl. through guidance, tools, and training.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you should have:

  • A law degree and 10+ years of experience practicing law, in a major law firm or in-house legal department
  • Strong legal knowledge and experience, ideally within PSQIT
  • Experience leading others, including a keen interest in working with, motivating, and developing people
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a strategic approach to risk management and prioritization
  • Strong communication skills and fluency in English
  • Curiosity, solution-oriented mindset, and a positive attitude

About the Department
You will be joining our dynamic and international Pharma Law team. We are the legal partner across the value chain to Novo Nordisk’s corporate functions – from Development to Product Supply and Commercial. In total, we are more than 50 employees located at our headquarters in Bagsvaerd, Denmark; Bangalore, India; and at different production sites across the world.

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.

Contact
For more information, please contact CVP Jacob Fossar Petersen (JCFP) +45 3075 4618.

Deadline
20 September 2024.

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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