Senior Legal & Compliance Manager

Are you a seasoned legal professional with a passion for driving ethical and compliant business practices? Novo Nordisk Indonesia is looking for a Senior Legal & Compliance Manager to lead and strengthen our legal and compliance framework. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact and take the next step in your career, explore this opportunity and apply today for a life-changing journey.

About the department
You will be part of the Legal, Compliance, and Quality (LCQ) department at Novo Nordisk Indonesia, reporting directly to the LCQ Director and closely connected to the APAC LCQ regional team. Based in Jakarta, the LCQ team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the organization’s operations by ensuring that all business activities are conducted with the highest standards of legal integrity, business ethics, and regulatory compliance.

Novo Nordisk, headquartered in Denmark, employs over 72,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries. Novo Nordisk Indonesia is proud to be one of our fastest-growing affiliates within the dynamic APAC region, driven by a strong commitment to innovation, business ethics, and patient-centric care.

The position
As the Senior Legal & Compliance Manager, you will manage legal affairs (including litigation/disputes) and compliance activities across the affiliate. Your key responsibilities include:

• Ensure comprehensive Business Ethics Compliance across the Indonesia affiliate by developing and enhancing monitoring processes, conducting internal controls, and leading investigations in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Implement and recommend systems to uphold compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements, ethical standards, and internal operational procedures as well as other policies throughout the organization.
• Draft, negotiate, and manage various contracts while reviewing legal documents related to trade, finance, and operations to ensure adherence to applicable laws and regulations.
• Provide pragmatic legal advice on contract interpretation and other various legal and compliance matters, ensuring execution of contracts aligns with local laws and other applicable legislations or requirements.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert and liaison for compliance risk management, offering guidance on business ethics and compliance issues, while driving the local Compliance Programme and supporting effective initiative implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law from a recognized institution (LL.M or equivalent preferred) and a member of a legal bar or society.
• Minimum 10 years of legal experience with 2–3 years as an in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical, chemical, life sciences, or medical device industry. Prior experience in tier-one law firm is also an added advantage.
• Strong expertise in contract drafting, negotiation, management, and providing pragmatic legal counsel.
• In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations, business transactions, and business ethics compliance (e.g. FCPA, UK Anti-Bribery Act).
• Fluent in both written and spoken English; experience in a tier-one law firm is a plus.

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
Please upload your CV to our online career portal (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
14 May 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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