Legal, Ethics & Compliance Manager

Are you a sharp, curious lawyer who loves solving problems and making a real impact? Ready to take the next big leap in your career with a fast-growing, global company? We’re looking for a Legal, Ethics & Compliance Manager to join our expanding team — a brand-new role based in Istanbul, Türkiye, reporting directly to the Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Director.

The Position

As the Legal, Ethics and Compliance Manager at Novo Nordisk, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring full business ethics compliance within the Turkish Affiliate. You will be responsible for developing processes and programs for effective monitoring, conducting internal controls, training local staff, and leading investigation cases in collaboration with various internal and external parties.

You will lead the implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of our local ethics and compliance programme. You will be representing the affiliate in regional/global compliance networks and working groups and act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, ensuring that all business practices comply with both global standards and local regulations, while supporting a strong ethical culture.

Your Key Responsibilities will include:

• Providing fast, effective, high quality and business-oriented legal and compliance advice for all required matters but not limited with key projects, litigation matters, disputes, and arbitrations, ensuring effective management, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and documents, as needed.
• Serving as the primary Ethics & Compliance advisor to the Turkish affiliate, offering expert guidance on anti-bribery/anti-corruption, promotional compliance, third-party management, and data privacy, proactively driving compliance initiatives and integrating ethics into decision-making processes.
• Designing and executing continuous monitoring activities to ensure proactive issue identification and audit readiness, providing ethics guidance to affiliate employees on activities, policies, and transactions, ensuring adherence to all relevant ethical standards and managing third-party oversight by overseeing the local Third Party Representative (TPR/LDDR) process.
• Developing and delivering engaging, audience-specific compliance training and communication strategies, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure compliant planning and execution of activities, including interactions with healthcare professionals (HCPs), patient groups, and vendors.
• Overseeing relevant compliance hotline cases and managing internal investigations from intake to resolution, monitoring regulatory developments and industry codes to ensure proactive compliance and provide strategic recommendations.
• Driving and facilitating Compliance Committee meetings, ensuring timely risk updates, action tracking, and strategic alignment across functions.

Qualifications

You have a minimum bachelor’s degree in law from high-ranked law school. You are a member of the applicable legal bar/law society with 7+ years of legal/compliance experience and have excellent command over both written and spoken English and Turkish.

Having a LL.M. degree or equivalent or pharmaceuticals regulation, business transactions in the industry and Business Ethics and Compliance in pharmaceutical or medical device experiences will be a plus. Further sought-after skills are:

• You have experience with Business Ethics and Compliance in pharmaceutical or medical device industry codes (e.g., EFPIA, AIFD), anti-corruption legislation (e.g., FCPA, UK Anti-bribery Act), and data privacy regulations.
• You have a strong legal acumen, integrity, risk awareness, and a detail-oriented mindset.
• You have a clear drive to learn and affinity for navigating the complex environment governing multinational pharmaceutical business
• You have cultural awareness, international mind-set with a desire and ability to work in a global environment 

• Proven ability to design and implement compliance programs, conduct risk assessments, manage compliance committees, and lead investigations.
• Hands-on experience with compliance monitoring frameworks and audit preparedness processes.
• Fluent in Turkish and English, both written and spoken.
• Relevant compliance certifications (e.g., CCEP, CIPP, CHC, SCCE) are considered a strong plus.

About the Department

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced team based in İstanbul, where no days are the same. Our department is dedicated to ensuring that Novo Nordisk operates within the internal and external legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks. We are patient centered in how we advise, and we look for solutions. We are a team of highly skilled professionals who likes to work collaboratively and integrated with the business, to provide the best possible business partnering. Our goal is to enable the business to make a difference for patients, while protecting and leveraging the organisation’s key assets, legal and business interests, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. 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. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

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Deadline 

06 April 2026

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.