Are you passionate about ensuring legal and regulatory compliance? Do you have a knack for providing strategic legal advice in a regulated environment? We are seeking a Legal and Compliance Counsel to join our dynamic team at Novo Nordisk in Oceania that will be based in Auckland, New Zealand. If you are ready to make a difference, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
About the department
Novo Nordisk has a unique opportunity for a science-driven and customer focused-professional, to partner with Specialists in achieving better patient outcomes with innovative medicines and medical activities for new medicines in diabetes, obesity, and related chronic diseases.
Novo Nordisk is a global company with a fast-growing number of employees in Oceania and more than 64,000 around the world.
The role will directly be reporting to the Director of Legal, Compliance, Quality for Oceania.
The position
As the Legal and Compliance Counsel, you will provide legal advice on strategic and tactical projects in a regulated environment. Other role expectations are as follows but is not limited to:
Qualifications
Must hold a Law degree from a reputable university. Must have at least 4 years of experience, preferably from a mix of law firm and in-house environments gained from within pharmaceutical, biotechnology or devices industries. Medicines New Zealand Code of Conduct certification. Must have strong business acumen. Working knowledge of pharmaceutical and other relevant laws and regulations, including Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorism, Anti-Competitive Behaviour, Modern Slavery, and ability to interpret and apply such laws and regulations and policies to inform business activities preferred. Must either be a New Zealand Citizen or have a current residency Visa to live and work in New Zealand.
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 energize 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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment. Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. First Nations peoples are encouraged to apply.
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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