Legal, Compliance & Quality Director

Are you an expert in compliance risk management with a passion for business ethics? Do you have a knack for ensuring legal and regulatory compliance while driving key initiatives? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Legal, Compliance and Quality Director at Novo Nordisk Vietnam. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department

Join the Legal, Compliance and Quality team at Novo Nordisk Vietnam, where we ensure the organisation complies with legal and regulatory requirements. Our dynamic team provides legal counsel and support across various business areas, ensuring ethical and compliant business activities. We are committed to embedding compliance by design and reinforcing risk management processes. Located in Vietnam, our team excels in a collaborative and supportive atmosphere, where your expertise will make a significant impact. The role will report directly to the Country Manager of Novo Nordisk Vietnam.

The position

As a Legal Compliance and Quality Director, your key responsibilities are to ensure compliance with industry codes, pharmaceutical legislation, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) while supporting compliance process improvements across departments.

You will be leading a team of 1 legal and 2 quality team members, as part of the Vietnam affiliate leadership team.

You will conduct compliance reviews, guide management in decision-making, and deliver targeted training on relevant frameworks. Additionally, you will manage General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and personal data protection, oversee the Quality Management System (QMS) setup for Novo Nordisk warehouse, and ensure adherence to Novo Nordisk Quality standards.

• Act as Legal and Compliance Director:
  • Serves as the Subject Matter Expert liaison for compliance risk management, providing reliable compliance counsel on both general and specific business ethics and compliance matters to management and the Line of Business (LoB), while proactively driving the local Compliance Programme by developing, executing, and following up on key compliance initiatives and supporting the LoB in effective implementation and performance monitoring.
  • Provides value-adding advice to management and the Line of Business (LoB) on embedding a Business Ethics mindset, staying updated with amendments to the framework, and communicating changes to relevant stakeholders, while acting as the Local Business Ethics Compliance Framework (BECF) Owner, Content Responsible, and Editor.
  • Duly implements compliance activities as advised by the Regional Head of Legal and Compliance, reviews the unit’s promotional materials and external communications, updates the HCP Interactions Regulations Overview (HIRO) on GlobeShare as prompted by the Business Ethics Compliance Office (BECO), and serves as the Legislation List Monitor for relevant compliance legislation and guidelines.
  • Assists with compliance aspects of competitor complaints and provides stakeholders with counsel on mitigating measures, supports preparation for internal and external audits related to compliance, and analyses work processes to identify compliance-friendly business efficiency measures.
  • Trains new employees in compliance and business ethics at an introductory level, coordinates and develops materials for advanced training sessions targeting relevant stakeholders, and proactively collaborates with external agencies (including LIF) to maintain and develop best practices.
• Act as Data Protection Responsible (GDPR):
  • Use Data Process Overview Tool to document and map business activities in affiliate, incl. engages stakeholders as part of mapping process and in fixing compliance gaps, where necessary. Ensure follow up and management reporting.
  • Consult local legal or external counsel to identify local requirements in national legislation, if needed, and responsible for ensuring that these are reflected locally. Act as anchor point for interaction with local data protection authorities.
  • Responsible for cascading communication and knowledge sharing within affiliate.
  • Ensure training is coordinated and conduct for all relevant employees (based on training materials developed by the Project team/DPO).
  • Advise organization on issues related to GDPR implementation in an NN context, sparring with local legal as needed. Support local management in ensuring sufficient anchoring of DPR role for continued compliance.
• Oversight the Set up QMS of NN warehouse (Entity conversion project) to ensure the safety, quality and benefit of the products that were received (imported), stored, inspected, relabelled and delivered to distributors in compliance with both local health authority inspection and internal NN qualification audit
• Delegated (from management) responsibility for the implementation of Novo Nordisk Quality.
• Document control, act as QA approval.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Legal or other relevant master’s degree (mandatory) with good business understanding (preferably business degree).
• Over 5 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, with expertise in compliance, business ethics, and personal data protection.
• Strong risk analysis, assessment, and action capabilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; fluent in written and spoken English.
• Quality mindset with strong attention to detail, coordination, time management skills, and the ability to manage and analyze complex tasks.

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
Please send your motivation letter, CV, and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment
 

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 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.

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