Associate Legal Counsel

Associate Legal Counsel

**Category**:Legal, Compliance & Audit

**Location**:Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
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**Department: Global Security (GLIPS GBS)**

**The position**
As an Associate Legal Counsel at Novo Nordisk,- you will be the key business partner and legal contact for our Clinical Outsourcing Management team in HQ, Denmark, on all matters relating to contractualization with CROs.- Provide legal support in drawing up, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with CROs mainly based on Novo Nordisk templates or by exception contracts received from CROs: master services agreement, standalone services agreement, work order etc.- Be the key business partner and legal contact for our Clinical Operations team worldwide on all matters relating to changes to legal sections in local PI/ICs.- Respond to complex contractual queries.- Identify risks and issues and suggest alternatives that lead to the best solution.- Analyze contract requirements, terms and conditions, and other content to ensure compliance with appropriate laws.- Participate in the optimization and updates of the Novo Nordisk contract templates. Support ad hoc trainings and develop/update pocket guides.- Additionally, you will work closely with legal colleagues both in our Headquarters function, primarily from Pharma Law Development, and across the world. You will also be trained to support other tasks in the Pharma Law team to ensure personal development and flexibility in the team.

**Qualifications**:
Need to have:
- Master’s or bachelor’s in law.- 3 to 6 years in Legal and Compliance.- 3 to 6 years of working experience in a global company.- Experience in end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management.- Strong understanding of contractual terms and conditions to draft, review, revise contracts, risk mitigation, and negotiation.- Excellent legal acumen and analytical skills, ideally including experience working as in-house counsel advising on contracting and clinical research matters.- Well-developed business partnering skills, including a proactive and innovative approach to understanding our customers’ needs and enabling business results through best-in-class legal support.- Strong networking skills and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.- Business and service-minded.- Global mindset.- Business ethics integrity.- Stakeholder management skills.

**About the department**
The Global Legal, Intellectual Property, and Security (GLIPS) department at Global Business Services (GBS) in Bangalore plays a pivotal role in supporting the global legal and intellectual property functions of the organization. With a focus on efficiency and high-quality delivery, GLIPS GBS operates across three key sub-teams, each contributing to the broader goal of providing comprehensive legal and intellectual property support to the organisation.
GLIPS GBS stands as a cornerstone of support for the organisation's legal and intellectual property and product security functions, ensuring operational excellence, risk mitigation, and compliance across global operations. Through its dedicated sub-teams and their diverse expertise, GLIPS GBS continues to be instrumental in driving the organisation's success in the legal and intellectual property domains.
- You will be a key part of the high-performing, dynamic GBS Pharma Law team which includes lawyers who are all legal business partners to Products, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs.
We want our people to have a global mindset, dedication to serving Novo Nordisk in the best possible way and have rewarding careers. To achieve this, we invest significantly in your continued development, including through giving frequent feedback on the job, access to internal and external training opportunities, and by giving you the tools and empowerment needed to be successful.
- 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**

**Deadline**
10th Feb, 2025

**_Disclaimer_**:

- It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employ