Director Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality

Are you passionate about ensuring legal and regulatory compliance? Do you have a knack for providing strategic legal counsel and driving ethical business practices? If so, we invite you to join our team as the Director of Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position
As our Director Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality, your main role will be to pro-vide Legal, Business Ethics Compliance and Quality support to Novo Nordisk South Africa Affiliate employees and department, including Legal, business ethics compli-ance and quality link of global affiliates and global functions and mitigate risk of the Affiliate. This position will report as Vice President & GM South Africa and will have 4 direct reportees.
 
Your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Ensure the organization complies with legal and regulatory requirements. Pro-vide legal counsel and support in areas such as corporate law, real estate, tax, business litigation, transactions/antitrust, compliance, intellectual property, employment/labour, corporate governance, ethics.
• Conduct regulatory activities to ensure products and business activities are ethical and compliant with relevant regulations, laws, and standards. Perform audit activities including examination, verification, evaluation, and reporting on financial, operational, and managerial processes.
• Review internal processes, documents, and reports to ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory frameworks. Provide advice on ethical and legal compliance issues, such as data privacy and Labour Code of Conduct.
• Monitor legislation and regulatory policies for legal compliance issues across multiple functions. Drive processes and initiatives to embed compliance by de-sign and reinforce risk management processes.
• Manage the local QA team and be in charge for the quality management sys-tem in the affiliate, local good manufacturing practice (GMP),good distribution practice (GDP), and external inspections by competent authorities in the affili-ate 

Qualifications

• Degree in Law and admission to the Bar. 8+ years in commercial law, prefera-ble in pharmaceutical sector experience in Compliance and experience in multi-national is beneficial 
• Solid knowledge of Legal and compliance entities with have extensive knowledge of Ethics and Compliance issues in the industry, global compliance trends and key in-dustry difficulties and developments.
• Holistic cross-functional knowledge of business. The ability to manage in a flu-id, interactive, matrixed environment and build strong relations and successful partnerships and strategic thinkers.
• Extensive knowledge of Ethics and Compliance issues in the pharmaceutical industry, global compliance trends and key industry difficulties and developments. Pharma exp is must to have.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with risk, analysis, assess-ment and action. Highly strategic and commercially minded with a strong busi-ness acumen.

About the Department

You will join our dynamic Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality in South Africa, where we are acted to drive and achieving excellence You will be part of the Strategic team. Our team collaborates with various departments to devise corrective actions for busi-ness ethics and compliance issues. We provide strategic and operational legal and business ethics compliance advice. We foster a collaborative and ethical work envi-ronment, where every team member is encouraged to challenge the status quo and strive for excellence, join us in making a difference in the lives of patients and driving the success of our therapeutic area.

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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions). 

Deadline 
13th December 2024
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.