Student Assistant Legal & Compliance

Your impact begins here

As Student Assistant Legal & Compliance, you will help Novo’s Finnish affiliate teams work with confidence on data protection, AI, contracts and promotional materials. You will support legal and compliance colleagues in turning regulation into clear, practical guidance people can use in their daily work. Alongside experienced colleagues, you will build hands-on legal experience and help ensure the work that reaches people living with serious chronic diseases meets high standards of ethics and quality.

What you’ll bring

You are studying or have completed legal studies, and you enjoy turning detailed rules into clear, practical answers. You bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree in law, or at least three years of law studies.
• Prior experience in legal and compliance operations, including data protection related work .
• Strong attention to detail when reviewing legal documents and records for accuracy and compliance.
• Analytical thinking to understand complex legal texts and regulatory requirements, and to judge when amendments are needed.
• Clear communication skills, so you can give timely, understandable legal input to colleagues.
• Research skills to find relevant information and keep up with legal developments.
• A collaborative, problem-solving mindset.

Useful, but not essential:

• A degree in pharmacy.

What you’ll do

You will work under supervision, supporting the legal and compliance work that keeps affiliate teams in Finland moving with clarity and integrity.

• Support data protection and AI compliance, including GDPR and AI Act requirements, and help develop and implement related policies and procedures.
• Help colleagues understand GDPR, AI Act and business ethics expectations through training, guidance and practical resources.
• Support compliance review of promotional materials and the upkeep of a compliance framework that underpins ethical business practices.
• Provide general contractual support: review and draft contracts, give input on terms and conditions, support negotiations and make sure agreements are documented and stored according to company policy.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments, and prepare reports on what changes mean for Novo’s policies and practices.

• Use data protection/AI software and contract management software to maintain records of processing and risk assessments and to streamline contract administration.

Who you’ll work with

You will join Legal & Compliance in International Operations, where colleagues work across markets to serve people around the world and help improve health at scale. Your focus will be Finland.

You will support all affiliate teams in Finland, working with colleagues across the business to turn legal and regulatory requirements into clear next steps. You will work closely with the legal and compliance colleagues who guide your work and review your output, so questions are raised early and decisions move forward with clarity.

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What you can expect here

You will build practical legal experience in a real business setting, learning from colleagues who work with data protection, AI regulation, contracts and compliance every day. You will work with modern tools and see how legal expertise supports decisions across the organisation.

You will be supported to perform at your best, trusted to take ownership of your tasks and encouraged to ask questions and share your perspective. Clear expectations and regular feedback help you learn, improve and raise the bar every day.

Salary:  For this role, the hourly salary is 17,50 EUR/h.​

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.​

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to turn legal and regulatory knowledge into practical support for people across Finland, apply for the Student Assistant Legal & Compliance role by 19 November 2026. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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