(L533) - Compliance and Legal Counsel Spain

Compliance and Legal Counsel Spain
Category: Legal, Compliance & Audit
Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES

Are you an experienced compliance professional within the pharmaceutical sector? Are you passionate about ensuring compliance and providing strategic legal advice? Do you have a double degree in Law and Business Administration? If so, we invite you to join our team in Madrid as a Compliance and Legal Counsel. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

We are seeking a Compliance and Legal Counsel with expertise in business ethics and compliance to support our business in Spain. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in enabling our business to navigate growth initiatives while safeguarding the company from business ethics, compliance, and reputational risks.

You will be accountable for:

1. Developing and maintaining high standards of Business Ethics and Compliance policies and procedures within the country and facilitate their effective implementation.
2. Networking internally and externally and liaising with other business partners and external stakeholders to ensure a harmonized and effective approach to Business Ethics/Compliance within the country.
3. Providing high-quality advice on Business Ethics and Compliance issues and local support to staff and relevant business entities by training, advice, communication, and other methods, as appropriate.
4. Advising on strategic and operational Business Ethics and Compliance issues, including compliance risk assessment, compliance strategy and policy, compliance training and education, and manage, handle and report compliance investigations, as appropriate.
5. Providing fast, effective, high-quality, and business-oriented Legal support to the Spanish affiliate.

As a strategic Compliance and Legal Counsel, you will ensure strict adherence to legal and compliance requirements and develop proactive legal and compliance guidance. Ensuring aligned approach in Business Ethics and Compliance among the country, providing advice to the Spanish affiliate.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you have a double Degree in Law and Business Administration. On top of that, we would expect:

1. At least 5 years of on-the-job legal and compliance experience in the healthcare industry.
2. Strong understanding of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards.
3. Excellent communication, proactivity, and negotiation skills.
4. Advanced user of IT Tools (Pivot tables, Power BI, AI tools, etc.).
5. Fluency in both written and spoken Spanish and English.

You are a driven, resilient professional who can be counted on to deliver top-quality work. With a keen eye for detail, you tackle complex challenges with pragmatic solutions, all while maintaining a positive attitude towards learning and growing within the business. Your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills allow you to collaborate seamlessly with diverse stakeholders, ensuring smooth operations. As a person of high moral integrity, you're dedicated to fostering a strong compliance culture within the company, always keeping ethics and development at the forefront.

About the Department

The Compliance Department at Novo Nordisk in Madrid is dedicated to ensuring that our organisation complies with all legal and regulatory requirements. Our team provides legal advice and support across various business areas, ensuring that our products and activities are conducted ethically and in compliance with relevant standards. The department fosters a collaborative and dynamic atmosphere, working closely with other teams to protect and leverage Novo Nordisk’s key assets and interests.

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

Please, submit your application via the Novo Nordisk website. We are unable to accept direct CVs.

Deadline

Please, apply before the 21st of November.

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 the communities we operate in. Together, we’re life-changing.