Legal Sr Manager Latam

Legal Sr Manager LATAM (São Paulo/SP)

Do you have the right drive, a sharp mind, strong learning agility, openness and curiosity to other cultures and partnering with the business in navigating complexity and finding compliant solutions? Do you perform best where change is daily and the unexpected is routine?

Are you motivated by the opportunity to be part of a highly engaged team and interested in enabling legal function in Region LATAM? If so, then seize the opportunity and become our new Sr. Legal Manager. During the first seven-eight months, you will be also responsible for Compliance in the Region, while one of our employees is on leave. It will be a priceless opportunity to learn and get onboarded in the Legal & Compliance function in Region LATAM

The position will be based in São Paulo (Brazil).

As a Sr. Legal Manager, you will report to Vice Present - Legal, Compliance & Quality (LCQ) LATAM.

**The Position**

As Sr. Legal Manager, you will handle driving legal affairs across Region LATAM and be involved in various legal and compliance activities.
- Support LATAM business strategy and drive management of LATAM legal risks, through pragmatic and proactive advice
- Ensure adequate, prompt and effective legal solutions to LATAM regional office (corporate governance, multichannel engagements, competition law, intellectual property, counterfeit issues)
- Act as advisor and Business Partner on selected projects driven by the regional office (focus on Digital Innovation and Patient Support Programs)
- Contract management responsible for Regional Office
- Ensure efficient alignment of Legal activities/procedures and best practices throughout LATAM
- Act as Data Protection Responsible for the LATAM Regional office and as a point of reference for the affiliates with regards to Data Privacy

**Qualifications**
- You have a bachelor degree and is an experienced legal advisor with solid working experience in companies or law firms.
- You have excellent command over both written and spoken English and strong executive presence in dealing with senior stakeholders, personal drive with a ‘can-do’ attitude, showing proactive thinking and a “show the way” approach and ability to turn complex information into simple and compelling messages.
- Speaking Spanish and/or Portuguese is an excellent added qualification.
- You are armed with comprehensive knowledge of Novo Nordisk organization, products, competitors, risk appetite, and the pharmaceutical industry in general.

**About the Department**

Area in direct contact with commercial, marketing, procurement, Latam affiliates. Being part of our team, you could act as an agent of change, being part of Novo Nordisk.

**Working at Novo Nordisk**
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further.

**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.