Senior Tax Manager - LATAM

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Senior Tax Manager – LATAM

Location: Brazil
Area: LATAM Finance Operations CoE

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Tax Manager LATAM to lead the tax strategy agenda across Latin America, acting as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders and driving strategic decision-making in a complex and dynamic environment.

This role is based in Brazil, reflecting the complexity of the local tax landscape and the close interaction with the manufacturing site. The position has end-to-end responsibility for LATAM tax, except for tax compliance activities in Brazil that are managed by a separate role, allowing this position to focus on leadership, strategy, and regional impact.

You will lead a diverse, multicultural team with 4 direct and 3 indirect reports across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama, requiring strong virtual leadership and communication skills.

Key responsibilities

• Own and drive the tax strategy (planning) for all Latin America entities, including Brazil, ensuring alignment with business priorities and corporate tax frameworks.
• Own and drive the tax operations (compliance) for all Latin America entities, except for the Brazilian ones.
• Act as the main regional tax business partner, supporting strategic projects, investments, restructurings, and key business decisions across LATAM.
• Lead and develop a high-performing regional tax team, fostering collaboration, capability building, and a strong business partnering mindset.
• Manage and support tax audits, disputes, and tax controversy cases across the region, working closely with Finance Directors, auditors and external advisors.
• Proactively identify tax optimization and savings opportunities (e.g., VAT, ETR, R&D, ESG-related initiatives) while ensuring compliance and risk awareness.
• Represent LATAM in relevant regional and global tax forums, collaborating closely with Corporate Tax and other CoEs.
• Drive offshoring, standardization, digitalization, and outsourcing initiatives within the LATAM tax agenda.

Who you are

• A strategic leader and strong communicator, able to translate complex tax matters into simple, clear, business-oriented insights for senior stakeholders.
• A digital and efficiency savvy, always looking forward better, faster, more digital and efficient ways to improve tax processes.
• Passionate about the business and how taxes can play a decisive role in business outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-changing environments, with the ability to balance risk management and business impact.
• An experienced people leader with a proven track record of managing remote and multicultural teams.
• A confident partner to senior management, capable of influencing decisions at executive level.

Your new department

As part of International Operations, you will join our largest operational unit. Covering 194 countries and 95% of the world's population, more than 18,000 of us work passionately to serve 35 million patients each day. With a promise to outperform the competition, we continue to be the growth driver for Novo Nordisk, and to improve health at scale across the globe.

Within International Operations, you'll be part of the LATAM Finance Operations Centre of Excellence – a dynamic team that enables business growth through financial excellence and strategic partnership. You'll work closely with Corporate Tax teams in headquarters, local finance directors across Latin America, and business leaders to ensure tax is positioned as a value-creating function. Your role will require strong cross-border collaboration, managing both direct reports and virtual teams distributed across multiple countries and time zones.

Qualifications & experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Law, Economics, Business or similar, with a broad, generalist tax profile.
• 10+ years of experience in tax, covering direct and indirect taxes, transfer pricing, customs, controversy, and risk management.
• Experience in large multinational companies and/or top-tier consulting firms (Big 4 background is a strong advantage).
• Strong experience working cross-border, across different cultures and time zones.
• Fluent English is required; Spanish is a strong plus, with openness to further develop it if needed.

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. As we expand rapidly across Latin America, you'll be part of shaping how we grow responsibly and sustainably – ensuring tax becomes a strategic enabler of our mission to reach more patients. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

This role offers significant scope for impact and autonomy. You'll have the authority to make tax decisions within an agreed mandate, enter into agreements with external advisors, and shape tax strategy across one of our fastest-growing regions. As a key member of the LATAM Finance Operations Leadership Team and potential member of the Global Tax Leadership Team, you'll gain exposure to senior leadership, participate in global tax meetings and peer networks, and have the opportunity to drive innovation through standardization, digitalization, and the development of tax as a profit center concept. 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: 5 April 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.