Legal Director for PSQIT Manufacturing & Ethics team, Pharma Law

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Novo Alle 1, 2880 Bagsværd, Danmark

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Are you ready to take on a corporate legal leadership role to enable Novo Nordisk’s production capacity scale up, and thereby help us improve the lives of patients? Do you want to lead an ambitious and high performing legal team supporting Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply Quality & IT (PSQIT) units? Are you driven by strategic thinking, ability to lead and set direction, and develop people, in a complex stakeholder landscape?

Then, you may be the Legal Director for the PSQIT Manufacturing & Ethics (M&E) team we are looking for!

The Position
As the M&E Legal Director, you will be overall responsible for the legal services provided to several of our PSQIT units, including API Kalundborg, Finished Production Manufacturing, Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Product & Drug Substance, and Quality, as well as overall responsible for PSQIT business ethics compliance. You will work on and manage exciting legal issues and projects with high business impact, and will interact directly with senior management in different business functions as well as across the Global Legal and Compliance organisation. As a member of the Pharma Law management team, you will take an active part in forming and implementing the team’s strategies.

Your key responsibility will include leading a team of 6 employees to provide legal support to our PSQIT units across HQ and production sites around the world, ensuring compliance with external and internal rules. Key areas include:

API Kalundborg; Legal partner to our Kalundborg production site, in close collaboration with API mgmt. managing key legal matters, in particular related to our expansion projects and scaling activities

Finished Production Manufacturing, Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Product & Drug Substance; Legal partner to our local production sites, and CMO local operations

Quality; Legal partner to our Quality organisation, managing key legal matters related to the quality of our products and operations, incl. handling of legal complexities related to Good Practice quality guidelines (GxP) and regulations; and authority inspections

PSQIT Business Ethics Compliance; Working closely with PSQIT mgmt., Business Ethics Compliance Office, and other key stakeholders, lead development and implementation of PSQIT Business Ethics Compliance program, focused on anti-corruption, data privacy, and human rights

PSQIT Legal & Compliance network; Lead network of PSQIT Legal & Compliance employees at NN production sites worldwide

You will be also be responsible for focusing on key opportunities and risks, incl. optimising resource allocation and acting as a as global legal subject matter expert, setting direction within PSQIT M&E focus areas, incl. through guidance, tools, and training

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you should have:

A law degree and 10+ years of experience practicing law, in a major law firm or in-house legal department

Strong legal knowledge and experience, ideally within PSQIT

Experience leading others, including a keen interest in working with, motivating, and developing people

Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a strategic approach to risk management and prioritization

Strong communication skills and fluency in English

Curiosity, solution-oriented mindset, and a positive attitude

About the Department
You will be joining our dynamic and international Pharma Law team. We are the legal partner across the value chain to Novo Nordisk’s corporate functions – from Development to Product Supply and Commercial. In total, we are more than 50 employees located at our headquarters in Bagsvaerd, Denmark; Bangalore, India; and at different production sites across the world.

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