Associate General Counsel

Are you excited to work with M&A and other complex business development transactions that will help build Novo Nordisk’s future medicines? Are you an experienced transactional attorney and want to be part of a high-performing legal team with global impact?

We are looking to expand our Legal Business Development team with a transactional Associate General Counsel. Start your application for a life-changing career.

   
The position

Your main responsibilities will focus on drafting and negotiating, structuring, and counseling on various types of complex global M&A and other life science agreements such as key research and development collaborations, global license agreements, strategic equity investments and transactional intellectual property matters.

You will be expected to develop solutions to new and challenging issues in a changing environment; and contribute to the ongoing development of the legal team and cultivate a highly collaborative culture.

You will partner with a diverse range of stakeholders within the business and across Global Legal, including working closely with Research & Development, Product Supply, the global Business Development teams, Strategic Finance and other headquarters staff as well as other global legal colleagues on various strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead drafting, negotiating, structuring and advising on M&A and other complex life science transactions, including global licensing transactions, strategic collaborations and acquisitions.
• Be a key business partner with Business Development and line of business for such transactions.
• Advise on and manage critical legal issues and work closely with other Novo Nordisk functions such as Patents, R&D units and R&D operations, product supply, strategic finance and tax.
• Manage outside counsel.

Qualifications

Success criteria for this role include:

• Law degree from a recognized university and admitted to practice law.
• Minimum 8 years of experience from a major law firm or relevant in-house legal department.
• Proven track record of drafting and negotiating M&A or life science industry agreements.
• Experience with intellectual property issues or life science industry preferred.
• Strong work ethic and personal drive, “can-do” approach and results-oriented attitude, which enables you to establish strong professional relations internally and externally.
• International mind-set and enjoy being part of a global work environment.
• Ability to manage numerous and changing priorities effectively, meet deadlines and work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Solid attention to detail and creative and practical problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and can work well with a variety of internal stakeholders in cross-functional teams and interacts effectively and professionally with all levels within the organisation.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English.

About the department

You will be reporting to the Vice President – Legal Business Development and be a key member of the highly collaborative and high-performing Legal Business Development team providing legal support to global Business Development activities such as M&A transactions and Integration, global intellectual property licensing transactions and other global strategic collaborations. The team is located both in Novo Nordisk’s headquarters in Bagsværd, Denmark and Boston, United States, as part of Global Legal, Intellectual Property & Security (GLIPS). Novo Nordisk’s Global Legal organization has more than 250 global legal colleagues situated at +40 locations around the world.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life-changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Greg Jones, Vice President at +45 3079 8201.

Deadline

31 July 2025.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. Applications will be handled as they are received, so please do not hesitate to apply.

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.