BASAC Legal Sr. Manager

Join us in a key regional legal leadership role where you will shape strategic decisions, protect our operations, and strengthen the legal foundation across BASAC. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a purpose-driven global healthcare company.

Your new role

As the BASAC Legal Senior Manager, you will act as the principal legal advisor for the Business Area South America & Caribbean. You will guide the region on strategic and operational legal matters, proactively manage risks, and ensure full compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will support high-impact initiatives and contribute to regional and global legal forums. Your core responsibilities include:

• Act as Business Partner in projects driven by the BASAC Business Area according to business priorities
• Providing timely, practical legal advice on contract management, corporate governance, competition law, digital interactions, patient support programs, and other key areas.
• Anticipating and mitigating legal risks across BASAC, including managing litigation strategies when needed.
• Strengthening contract management processes to improve efficiency, compliance, and risk oversight.
• Ensuring regional alignment with global and regional legal strategies, procedures, and best practices.
• Co-leading the Product Security agenda, including matters related to counterfeit risks and pharmacrime.
• Acting as the Data Protection Responsible for BASAC and supporting privacy governance across affiliates.
• Representing BASAC in strategic legal forums and contributing to decision-making on behalf of the region.

Your Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law and bar admission (required); Master’s degree preferred.
• Solid experience as a legal advisor in a corporation or law firm.
• Strong judgment and ability to advise senior executives
• Strategic thinking, clear communication, stakeholder influence, strong risk assessment, and the ability to translate complex legal topics into practical business solutions.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, high integrity, and the ability to manage complexity with autonomy.
• Fluency in English required; Spanish is a plus.
• Regional experience highly valued.
• Availability to travel up to 20% of the time.

About the Department

BASAC Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality is a dynamic and collaborative team dedicated to ensuring Novo Nordisk operates ethically and in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Based in a multicultural and international environment, we provide strategic legal counsel and compliance support across the Clusters (SAM and CAC). Our team is committed to driving quality decisions, enabling strategy, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

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.

More information

For more information, visit novonordisk.com, Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and YouTube. To complete your application, click on "Apply now", attach your CV and follow the instructions.

Deadline

Please apply before December 17th, 2025.

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.

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.