Job Description
At Novo Nordisk Iran, the position of legal and compliance counsel provides you the opportunity to work in a high-performing team and contribute directly towards the business results while creating value for diabetic patients. Are you looking for a career where you can use your legal and compliance expertise to manage a dynamic and high-performing group of people? Do you have the passion to provide strategic legal counsel and support? If so, we invite you to join our legal and compliance department at Novo Nordisk LMT. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
About the department:
The Legal and Compliance Department of Novo Nordisk Local Manufacturing Tehran (LMT) is dedicated to ensuring that our organization complies with all legal and regulatory requirements. Our team provides legal counsel and support across various areas, including corporate law, business litigation, transactions/antitrust, compliance, intellectual property, employment/labor, real estate, tax, corporate governance, and ethics. We work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, collaborating closely with different departments to protect and leverage the organization’s key assets and interests.
The position:
As legal and compliance counsel, you will assume the responsibility for supporting and assisting the Legal and Compliance (L&C) Manager within these three pivotal areas: Legal Function, Compliance and Business Ethics Functions, and Sanctions and Export Control Functions.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide reliable legal support to the Line of Business (LoB), ensuring compliance with all relevant local and internal laws, regulations, guidelines, and procedures.
- Support LMT departments on-site or remotely as needed, review drafts, and assist in negotiating contracts and agreements, as well as keeping and improving all legal and compliance databases, including physical and electronic.
- Assist with employment issues, collaborate with external legal counsel, and train LMT employees on legal issues.
- Serve as the point-of-contact for authorities and be present before local authorities as a “legal representative” of the company, if required, and support LMT in identifying legal risks and reporting to the L&C Manager, as well as implementation of risk-preventive actions and control measures in alignment with the L&C Manager.
- Ensure effective implementation of and adherence to compliance and business ethics policies, strategies, and standard operating procedures (SOPs), providing high-quality business ethics training, and advice, and supporting internal and external stakeholders and business partners, identifying business ethics risks and support for controlling the risks, investigating and reporting breaches and violations, and serve as the Data Privacy Responsible (DPR) of LMT.
Requirements:
- Licensed attorney will be an added advantage
- Good working experience/expertise/knowledge in Domestic Law/Civil Law, Law Degree/Master’s degree in the relevant areas from a high-ranked law school,
- 4 to 5 years of experience; 2 years of which is working in a multinational company or international setting, an added advantage.
- Extensive knowledge of production units’ issues, including labor law and business transactions in a manufacturing site, coupled with in-depth experience in business ethics and compliance in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry.
- Effective communication, business understanding, stakeholder management, independence, and a team player attitude with assertiveness.
- Knowledge of codes of conduct, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the UK Anti-Bribery Act, as well as experience with change management and business partnering, preferred but not required.
- Fluency in both verbal and written English is essential.
Working at Novo Nordisk:
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.
Contact:
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
Deadline:
14 April 2025;
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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 in 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 the communities we operate in. Together, we’re life-changing.
