Senior Corporate Counsel

Finance, Legal & Global Solutions

Bagsværd, Denmark

This opportunity is unordinary because it places you at the center of high-impact, international legal work within one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, where your contributions directly shape global strategy. It uniquely combines a high-performing team environment with exposure to complex negotiations and cutting-edge legal challenges that rarely converge in a single role.

We are looking for a colleague to join the PS Sourcing legal team to support our Product Supply (CMC&PS) organisation. Start your application for a life-changing career! 

Your new role

As legal business partner for our CMC & PS organisation, you will advise and support the departments responsible for the strategic sourcing and outsourcing activities related to Novo Nordisk’s production sites worldwide and the global management of suppliers. In your role, you will advise senior management and support internal stakeholders on large-scale projects, such as outsourcing and supply agreement, and act as the legal business partner on key strategic initiatives in the CMC & PS organisation.

You will:

• Assist and support on complex high-value and high-impact matters that attract significant senior management attention. 
• Identify and assess critical legal issues, act pragmatic to find a way forward and support the business in setting out a strategy.
• Assist and support high-impact contract negotiations, including translating the impact of concessions for the business and drafting key legal terms. Collaborate with senior stakeholders to help guide their decision-making.
• Work closely with your colleagues in Global Legal, Intellectual Property and Security (GLIPS) and other colleagues across the world, leveraging all relevant competencies. ·
• Drive ad hoc projects and activities focused on optimising the way we work (e.g., improvements to our contracting setup and support model), managing assistance from external counsel, offshoring to our contracting colleagues in India, knowledge sharing, and training.

Your new department

You will be a key part of the high-performing, dynamic, and fun team consisting of 7 lawyers who are all legal business partners to Novo Nordisk’s strategic sourcing and outsourcing department within CMC & PS. The team is part of the Global Legal, Intellectual Property and Security (GLIPS), located in Novo Nordisk’s headquarters in Bagsværd, Denmark. Novo Nordisk’s global legal organisation consists of more than 500 legal colleagues situated in over 40 locations around the world. We want our people to have a global mindset, dedication to serving Novo Nordisk in the best possible way, and have rewarding careers. To achieve this, we invest significantly in your continued development, including through giving frequent feedback on the job, access to internal and external training opportunities, interaction with senior management, and by giving you the tools and empowerment needed to be successful.

Your skills and qualifications

• You hold a degree in Law or Business Law
• + 6 years of post-graduation experience either from a law firm or a company with an international focus, and have a strong track record as a lawyer.
• You have strong legal acumen, including experience in drafting and negotiating international commercial contracts.
• You possess well-developed business partnering skills and an inquisitive nature, including a proactive approach to understanding our business and our stakeholders’ needs and enabling business results through best-in-class legal advice.
• You thrive as a specialist in cross-functional teams, are open be new ways of thinking and are able to adopt a broader mindset.
• You have strong written and verbal English communication skills, which enable you to clearly convey complex issues and navigate among stakeholders from different cultures and business functions.

As a person, you are personable, fosters a positive atmosphere, unites people, and builds strong connections. are resilient and have the ability to manage high-pressure stakeholder interactions.

You will join a team of highly motivated, hard-working, and collaborative professionals, who values laughter, team spirit, and a good atmosphere.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we do not 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.

What We Offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

Deadline 

11 January 2026.

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application at your earliest convenience.

Please submit your application, CV, and transcripts/diploma. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please do not include a photo in your CV.

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.

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.