Legal, Ethics & Compliance Counsel

Are you a legal expert with a passion for legal affairs, ethics and compliance? Are you ready to make a difference in in the lives of people with chronic diseases? We are looking for a Legal, Ethics & Compliance Counsel to join our team in Novo Nordisk Hellas. This position is based in Athens, Greece and will report to the Legal, Compliance & Quality Director Greece and Cyprus.
If you are ready to utilize your expertise and enable business growth while defending against legal, compliance, and reputational risks, then read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
The Position
We are seeking a Legal, Ethics and Compliance Counsel with expertise in legal affairs, ethics and compliance to support our business in Greece. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in enabling our business to navigate growth initiatives while safeguarding the company from legal, ethics, compliance and reputational risks.
You will be accountable for:

• ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including clinical trial regulations, data privacy legislation, pharmaceutical regulations and industry codes.
• providing legal and compliance support in areas such as contract law, clinical trials law, data protection regulations, pharma regulations, HCPs and HCOs engagement framework, third parties risk assessment, transfer of value reporting and more.
• legal and compliance strategic counselling to Clinical Trials Development Center (CDC) Greece.
• ensuring data privacy compliance for the organisation.

As a strategic legal, ethics and compliance counsel, you will ensure strict adherence to legal and compliance requirements and develop proactive legal and compliance guidance, with a focus on contract law, clinical trials law, data protection and pharmaceutical regulations. You will ensure effective contract management, draft, review, approval and negotiation of various contracts, with a view to facilitate business growth while mitigating legal and reputational risks. You will provide fast, effective, high quality and business-oriented legal and compliance support and advice in key projects.
You will support the development and maintenance of a robust GDPR compliance framework for the organisation. Responsibilities include identifying and assessing ethics and compliance risks, performing gap analyses and creating risk mitigation plans related to the affiliate activities.
This position presents an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic and innovative environment, supporting our commitment to deliver high quality products to the patients with the highest ethical and legal standards. If you are a dedicated legal professional with a passion for driving change and a commitment to excellence, we encourage you to apply.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you have a Law Degree. A Master of Laws (LLM), especially in healthcare, would be considered as an advantage.
On top of what we would expect:

• At least 2-3 years of on-the-job legal and compliance experience in the healthcare industry, (in-house or at a tier-one law firm). 1 year experience in the clinical trials industry would be considered as an advantage.
• Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations, data protection requirements and clinical trial operations.
• Fluency in both written and spoken Greek 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
You will be part of the Greek affiliate team, joining the Legal, Ethics, Compliance, and Quality Department. Our team is focused on improving the lives of people with serious chronic diseases, placing patients at the centre of everything we do. Working at Novo Nordisk is never just a job, it's the opportunity for a life-changing career. We can guarantee a highly dynamic environment and a world of opportunities.
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 with an English version of your CV via the Novo Nordisk website. We are unable to accept direct CVs.
Deadline
Please, apply before the 27th of September.
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.