Legal, Ethics

Legal, Ethics & Compliance Manager (Public Affairs)

**Category**:Business Support & Administration**Location**:Brasília, Distrito Federal, BR-
**The position**
- As a Legal, Ethics & Compliance Manager at Novo Nordisk, you will:
- Provide legal advice and strategic counsel within your area of expertise to relevant areas and organisational levels.
- Ensure that current or proposed activities, policies, business practices, and transactions comply with all relevant laws and regulations.
- Review and approve various legal documents including contracts, letters of agreement, pleadings, and other documents related to trade, commercial, financial, and operational matters.
- Represent the organisation in complex, controversial, significant, or specialised legal proceedings before courts, government agencies, or other authorities.
- Drive Public Affairs priorities at the Affiliate level, closely collaborating with the direct manager, local public affairs team, and regional LEC team.

**Qualifications**
- We realise that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:

- Law Degree
- Fluent in English
- Experienced and qualified lawyer (experience in the pharmaceutical, chemical, life sciences or medical device industry is a plus)
- On-the-job experience in tier-one law firm is desired
- Knowledge in Intellectual Property is a plus

**About the department**
- You will join our Legal, Ethics and Compliance team to be a business partner to the Public Affairs team in Brasília, where we drive Public Affairs priorities at the Affiliate level. Our team closely collaborates with the local public affairs team and the regional LEC team, creating local ownership of key business unit goals and accountability for their achievement. We ensure legal and ethical considerations are integrated into decision-making and proactively drive compliance and risk management processes. The atmosphere is dynamic and collaborative, with a strong focus on ethical practices and strategic integration.**Working at Novo Nordisk**
- Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 66,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.**Contact**

**Deadline**
- 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.