Legal, Ethics and Compliance Manager

Are you a qualified lawyer with experience and passion? Are you ready to make the next step in your professional development in a global expanding company? Then your opportunity is here. We are looking for Legal, Ethics and Compliance Manager. This role is based in Istanbul, Turkiye, and directly reports to Legal, Ethics, Compliance and Quality Senior Director.Your New PositionAs Legal, Ethics and Compliance Manager, you will provide legal and compliance support to the Turkish Affiliate. You will manage exiting legal and compliance issues of high priority and impact on Novo Nordisk and handle legal and compliance matters arising from the business activities, including in areas such as engaging with health care professionals, corporate governance, contract management, data privacy.You will independently:Provide fast, effective, high quality and business-oriented legal and compliance advice for all required matters but not limited with key projects, litigation matters, disputes, and arbitrations, ensuring effective management, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and documents, as needed.Carry out and continually assess the effective implementation of the Global and International Operations (IO) Legal strategy, identifying legal trends and other developments in the legal environment and sharing them with the Legal, Ethic, Compliance and Quality Senior Director and relevant departments.Develop and deliver innovative training to ensure employees are well trained, interact with the local Novo Nordisk leaders, as well as global and regional legal and compliance functions, and serve as a point-of-contact with outside counsel regarding evaluation and development of mitigating strategies.Maintain and update data mapping, risk assessment, and compliance documentation for local organization. Advise organization on issues related to data protection requirements implementation in a Novo Nordisk context, sparring with local legal as needed and also ensuring that any local requirements are implemented and adapted in global templates to be used locallyYour New Department:You will join a dynamic and fast-paced team based in İstanbul, where no days are the same. Our department is dedicated to ensuring that Novo Nordisk operates within the internal and external legal, ethical, and regulatory frameworks. We are patient centered in how we advise and we look for solutions. We are a team of highly skilled professionals who likes to work collaboratively and integrated with the business, to provide the best possible business partnering. Our goal is to enable the business to make a difference for patients, while protecting and leveraging the organisation’s key assets, legal and business interests, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards.Your Skills & QualificationsYou have a minimum bachelor’s degree in law from high-ranked law school. You are a member of the applicable legal bar/law society with 5+ years of legal/compliance experience and have excellent command over both written and spoken English and Turkish. Having a LL.M. degree or equivalent or pharmaceuticals regulation, business transactions in the industry and Business Ethics and Compliance in pharmaceutical or medical device experiences will be a plus. Further sought-after skills are;You have experience with Business Ethics and Compliance in pharmaceutical or medical device industry (including codes of conduct, FCPA and UK Anti-bribery Act)You are a strong legal acumenYou have a clear drive to learn and affinity for navigating the complex environment governing multinational pharmaceutical businessYou have excellent communication and stakeholder management abilitiesYou have cultural awareness, international mind-set with a desire and ability to work in a global environmentYou have an on-the-job experience in tier-one law firm or corporate environment.Working at Novo NordiskAt 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.What We OfferThere is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.DeadlineApply before 7 November 2025. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basisNovo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.