Legal Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager

Legal Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager

**Category**:Legal, Compliance & Audit

**Location**:Singapore, Singapore, SG

**About the department**
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with a century-long legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. The Legal & Compliance department in Novo Nordisk plays a critical role in ensuring ethical business practices, compliance with regulations, and high-quality operations. As a member of the Leadership Team, you will be instrumental in managing legal affairs, business ethics compliance, and quality standards for the affiliate.
This role reports to the General Manager and will oversee Singapore and Brunei.

**The position**
As the Legal Compliance and QA Manager, you are expected to hold overall accountabilities for all Legal and Business Ethics (BE) Compliance matters in the Affiliate, providing proactive advice and risk assessment, in compliance with Novo Nordisk policies and external laws and regulations.
Other role expectations are as follows but is not limited to:

- Oversee the implementation and ongoing evaluation of the Global and International Operations (IO) Legal strategy, ensuring compliance with relevant laws in the Affiliate while collaborating with BA Legal and IO Legal Teams. It includes monitoring legal trends and developments, providing business-oriented legal support for key projects, litigation, disputes, and arbitrations, and coordinating external law firms according to Global Legal guidelines. The position also involves managing the Affiliate's legal budget, reviewing promotional materials on Veeva/Vault PromoMats, and supporting interactions with authorities such as the Ministry of Health and Health Sciences Authority Singapore.
- Ensure efficient archiving of legal documents and effective contract management, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts as needed.
- Implement the Global and IO BE Compliance Plan, developing local policies to meet legal and industry requirements, maintaining a compliance framework for Singapore and Brunei, providing high-quality advice and training on BE Compliance, networking to ensure alignment, and preparing reports and presentations on compliance issues for management teams.
- Analyse legal and BE Compliance risks, providing assessments to relevant teams, implementing action plans to minimize risks in collaboration with management, and overseeing due diligence as the final reviewer for the affiliate.

**Qualifications**
- Law Degree from high-ranked Law School and a member of the applicable legal bar/law soci-ety. Ph.D. in Law or LL.M. degree or equivalent is desirable.
- Experienced and qualified lawyer with a minimum of 6 years’ legal experience, with at least 2 years in the pharmaceutical, chemical, life sciences or medical device industry.
- Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical regulation and business transactions in the Affiliate.
- In-depth experience with Business Ethics and Compliance in pharmaceutical or medical de-vice industry (including codes of conduct, FCPA and UK Anti-bribery Act)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

**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**

**Deadline**
4 February 2025
- 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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