Legal Ethics

Global Legal Ethics & Compliance Graduate: Kick-start your life-changing career within legal ethics and compliance

Are you a master’s student or recent graduate with an interest in legal ethics & compliance? Be a part of Novo Nordisk’s growth journey and accelerate your own. Turn your degree into a global career at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies 

About the Global Legal Ethics & Compliance Graduate Programme

The full-time position as a Global Legal Ethics & Compliance Graduate offers three exciting eight-month rotations across our company globally, providing you with a broad experience and skills within legal, ethics & compliance. You get to experience first-hand how our functions play a role across the business in ensuring that Novo Nordisk can better develop and deliver life-changing medicines to our patients.

During the programme you will be working in a global organisation with many different stakeholders where your contributions and perspectives will play a valuable role in shaping the future for the legal and compliance functions at Novo Nordisk within the pharmaceutical industry.

As you embark on your life-changing career in Novo Nordisk, we will provide you with:

• Accelerated personal and professional development from day one
• International professional experience
• Vast exposure and networking possibilities

The position

Over the course of this two-year programme, you will expand your international network, while gaining an understanding of our value chain. Together we will shape your journey by choosing the focus during your three rotations, all while being mentored by experienced colleagues who will challenge and guide your development.

You will be involved in a wide range of workflows within different organisational layers, acquiring international pharma industry experience with strong exposure to legal, ethics & compliance and other business functions. Simultaneously, you will be driving digitalization, simplification, and automation of processes within our areas, using technology to improve efficiency. Risk assessment and methodology experience will also be a central element in your development journey.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed as a Legal Ethics & Compliance Graduate, we expect you to have:

• Recent master's degree (from 2024 or 2025) in a relevant field, such as law, business administration, political science, or public health studies, with above average academic achievements
• Relevant work experience from internships, student jobs, or similar activities obtained next to your studies, e.g., extracurricular activities
• International experience, for example from studying a full semester abroad, working or volunteering
• No more than 1 year of full-time work experience between or after completing a master’s degree
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• Globally mobile (also beyond the Graduate Programme)
• Compliance or legal background and related experience is a plus

If you meet the criteria and are interested in joining the programme with start-up date 1 September 2025, please make sure to submit your application no later than 30 November 2024 GMT+1.

Important: upload this when you apply 

Before clicking the apply button, please ensure you have uploaded your CV (please upload under “resume”), cover letter and most recent academic records (upload these two documents as one file under “cover letter”) in English. Applications without these uploads will not be considered. 

In the cover letter we expect to learn more about your motivation for wanting to join Novo Nordisk and the Graduate Programme, as well as your personal and professional competencies. Hence, make sure you include: 

• What are your expectations to the Legal Ethics & Compliance Graduate Programme and how will it support your career aspirations?
• What team characteristics do you value, and what three qualities do you believe others appreciate about you?
• In Novo Nordisk, the Legal Ethics & Compliance organisation is responsible for ensuring that we never compromise on ethics, a commitment that is part of our Novo Nordisk Way and our ambition to be a sustainable business. What is ethics to you and how does it intersect with legal & compliance?
• Share a specific example of solving a challenging legal ethics & compliance-related task in previous work or projects. Provide details about the problem and your solution

The cover letter must not exceed one page.

You can apply from any device but as you will be asked to answer several questions on the application page, we recommend applying from a PC instead of a mobile phone.

About the Graduate Programme

Our global Graduate Programme is designed to bring together change makers with a diversity of perspectives and equip them with the tools needed to accelerate their personal and professional development. The two-year programme allows you to explore the world while developing your career. You will be taken on three rotations around the globe where you will work in a fast-paced environment and grow in ways you never could have imagined. You will be exposed to the entire Novo Nordisk value chain while being challenged to explore your boundaries and reach your full potential.

If you want a general introduction to the Novo Nordisk Graduate Programme including all 18 tracks then click here. 

Contact

For questions about the Global Legal Ethics & Compliance track, please contact one of our current graduates. You can also click on this link for information on our upcoming graduate webinars.

About Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. We employ more than 69,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 170 countries. We are on a relentless mission to drive change for millions of people living with chronic diseases, and we need people like you to join us on this mission and take Novo Nordisk into the future. 

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.