Legal Director

Legal Director - LATAM
**Category**:Legal, Compliance & Audit
**Location**:São Paulo, São Paulo, BR
- This position is based in Sao Paulo.
**Position Description**
- The Legal Director will support LATAM business strategy and drive management of LATAM legal initiatives through pragmatic and proactive advice.
Some key responsibilities include:
- Ensure adequate, timely, and effective legal solutions to the LATAM Business Area Office, including contract management, corporate governance, and competition law.
- Act as a value-adding advisor and business partner on selected business units and projects driven by the LATAM Business Area, ensuring efficient alignment of legal activities, procedures, and best practices throughout LATAM.
- Manage and improve contract management in the Business Area Office, as well as aspects of product security, fostering efficiency and alignment with internal policies.
- Act as Data Protection Responsible for the LATAM office, driving data protection agenda and risk management.
- Act as people manager for LATAM Legal positions, ensuring high-quality people management while being an active member of key strategic groups in LATAM, EM, and IO, providing high-quality contributions.
**Required Qualifications**
- To be successful in this role, you need to have:
- Bachelor's degree in law and admission to the legal profession.
Master Level Degree in Law is a plus.
- Demonstrates solid business judgment and effectively interacts with executive and senior management and external partners.
- Fluent English
- Nice to have:
- Leadership experience, as well as fluency in Spanish or Portuguese.
**About the department**
- The Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality LATAM department ensures that Novo Nordisk complies with legal and regulatory requirements across the LATAM region.
Our team provides legal counsel and support in various areas, including corporate law, compliance, intellectual property, and corporate governance.
We are committed to conducting our business ethically and in compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards.
Located in the vibrant LATAM region, this hybrid position is fostered in a department that thrives through a collaborative and dynamic atmosphere, where you can make a real difference in achieving our strategic goals.
**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 69,000 employees around the world.
We recognize 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.
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- 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.