Legal & Compliance Manager

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 and compliance functions in Novo Nordisk’s Brazilian Affiliate? If so, then seize the opportunity and become our new Legal & Compliance Sr. Manager. It will be a priceless opportunity to work for a dynamic and fast-growing affiliate of Novo Nordisk

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

**The Position**

As a Legal & Compliance Sr. Manager, you will report to Sr. Director of Legal & Compliance and you will be responsible for managing legal affairs of the Brazilian affiliate as well as business ethics compliance issues. We expect a hands-on, experienced manager who can:

- Provide proactive, fast, effective, high quality and business-oriented legal support and advice in Affiliate key projects and litigation matters.
- Provide proactive and high quality advice on business ethics compliance issues and support staff by giving information and training as necessary, as well as identify and address issues and major risks and report implementation of mitigating actions.
- Ensure that functions in the Affiliate understand and follow standards and processes which are constantly updated in response to changes in regulations, laws and industry (or other) trends that may impact the business and are often challenged and scrutinized by authorities.
- Managing data protection issues across the affiliate.

**Qualifications**
- You have a bachelor degree and is an experienced legal and compliance 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.
- You have an active OAB.

**About the Department**

Area in direct contact with commercial, marketing, procurement, medical affairs, quality. 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.