Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Associate Director, Romania

Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Associate Director Romania

Join a purpose-led team that puts patients at the centre. As Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Associate Director for Romania, you will shape the legal and ethical backbone of a fast-growing healthcare leader, safeguarding patients while enabling sustainable business growth. This is a hands-on leadership role where your guidance will directly influence strategy, culture and the way we operate across the market.

Your new role

As Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Associate Director for Romania, you'll serve as General Counsel and Compliance Officer in a pivotal leadership position. You'll be the trusted advisor to our Romanian Leadership Team, ensuring we never compromise on business ethics, quality, or compliance while enabling our business to thrive.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing the Legal, Compliance & Quality Strategy for Romania, providing strategic direction and oversight across all legal, compliance and quality matters
• Serving as primary point-of-contact for regulatory authorities during audits, dawn raids, or government investigations, and advising management on mitigation strategies
• Providing fast, business-oriented legal advice on HCP interactions, anti-corruption, competition law, data protection, contracts, corporate governance, and regulatory matters
• Leading all claims, litigation, disputes and arbitrations within Romania, coordinating with external counsel to protect Novo Nordisk's interests
• Acting as Data Protection Responsible (DPR), coordinating GDPR compliance, data mapping, breach response, and data subject requests across the local organization
• Managing the Novo Nordisk Quality System including recalls, deviations, quality audits and QMR assessments for the Romanian Leadership Team
• Identifying and managing key compliance risks, conducting investigations in collaboration with GIA, BECO and Global Legal functions
• Representing Novo Nordisk in Business and Industry Association meetings, building strategic external relationships

Your new department

The LECQ Director will join Novo Nordisk Romania’s established LECQ Department, a purpose-driven, high-impact team ensuring ethical, commercial and compliance integrity across Romania operations. The department comprises senior Legal & Compliance Advisors and leads the Quality team, collectively focused on commercial contracting, data privacy, integrity, ethics and enabling sustainable growth through innovation and strong stakeholder engagement.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for an experienced legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can balance strategic thinking with pragmatic, business-oriented advice.

You'll bring with you:

• Law degree; fluency in Romanian (mandatory) and English (written and spoken).
• Minimum 8 years’ legal experience in a fast-paced international company (e.g., pharmaceutical, FMCG, digital, telecom).
• Strong business acumen with proven ability to translate legal and compliance advice into pragmatic commercial solutions and to partner with business leaders on strategic decision-making, risk assessment, and driving business outcomes.
• Deep expertise in business ethics and compliance (including codes of conduct, FCPA and UK Anti‑Bribery Act) and a strong understanding of complex regulatory environments affecting multinational companies, with the ability to interpret and analyse Romanian legal requirements independently.
• Extensive experience in litigation, dispute resolution, contract drafting and negotiation.
• Demonstrated empowerment and accountability mindset, excellent cross‑functional collaboration and people development skills, and proven change‑management capability to simplify processes and increase agility.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and influence at all organizational levels.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. In rare disease, this mission takes on special meaning – where our work touches smaller patient populations but has profound individual impact. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

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.

Deadline

Apply before 30 March 2026 (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis)

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.