Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel (Obesity)

Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel, Obesity

Are you a qualified lawyer with extensive experience of working within the pharmaceutical industry and looking for your next career move?

Do you have what it takes to navigate complex areas across both the private market and the NHS landscape, supporting our Obesity Business Unit (OBU) with legal and compliance expertise?

Working within a matrix environment you will act as an integral part of the UK Legal, Quality & Compliance department (LQC), reporting directly to our Senior Director of LQC within the UK affiliate. You will work extremely closely with the leaders in our OBU, providing wide ranging legal and compliance counsel. You will also be a member of the UK Obesity Management Team.

The Job
In this role you will provide high level, strategic advice to the Obesity team on a variety of legal and compliance matters, relating to ABPI code compliance, social media, interactions with HCPs, promotional material, data privacy, competition law, together with a variety of complex contractual scenarios.

You will work closely with the Senior Director of LQC in setting the strategic direction of managing legal and compliance risks in the OBU; liaising closely with senior legal colleagues at regional and HQ level, together with representing the UK affiliate in a wide range of international meetings.

Ensuring all OBU employees maintain an awareness of current legislation pertinent to their role, together with ongoing training in relation to legal, compliance and business ethics is a key element of this role.

This is an office-based position, where you will be required to spend three days per week onsite in our UK Head Office in Gatwick (post Covid restrictions). Some travel outside of the UK will be required.

Qualifications
We are looking for a qualified lawyer with extensive post qualification experience and a deep knowledge of the pharmaceutical sector. This may have been gained through a private practice law firm supporting companies within our sector, or from an in-house legal position within the industry.

You will have experience of providing advice on an industry code, such as the ABPI code, or the local code in another jurisdiction, and knowledge of international codes (such as the EFPIA code).
Experience of working in a global, matrix environment is also highly desirable.

About Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with almost 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people living with obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and endocrine disorders.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 44,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries

What we offer?
We offer a competitive salary plus bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, income protection and a fantastic pension scheme. You will also be entitled to flexible benefits which include holiday insurance, childcare vouchers, optical insurance, holiday buy and sell, Perkbox and much more! Working at the head office at Gatwick you also have access to other benefits such as free breakfast and lunch, lunch time fitness classes, access to our gym and workplace massages.

Novo Nordisk offers an excellent inclusive culture with a focus on healthy living, flexible working and corporate social responsibility activities. The Novo Nordisk Way includes our vision, our values and our commitment to ensure we are a great place to work and we want you to be a part of that!

Deadline
Please apply through our careers site by 16th July 2021.

Millions rely on us
To work for Novo Nordisk you will need the skills, dedication and ambition to change lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. In exchange, we offer the chance to be part of a truly global workplace, where passion and engagement are met with opportunities for professional and personal development.