Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance

Are you an Ethics & Compliance leader? Are you looking for an organisation where you connect with its purpose, play an integral role in its growth journey, whilst strengthening an ethical culture and driving the company values across the organisation? If this sounds exciting, you may be our next Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance!

The Senior Director, Ethics and Compliance, will report to the General Counsel International Operations and Head of Legal, Compliance & Quality. This position is based at our office in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Position

Novo Nordisk International Operations (IO) is seeking a new Senor Director, Ethics & Compliance, to lead Ethics & Compliance in IO and further develop and implement our Ethics & Compliance program in alignment with Novo Nordisk’s overall Ethics & Compliance strategy. The Compliance program continues to mature in response to a more complex legal and regulatory landscape, with increased enforcement, high expectations from society and key stakeholders, and innovative and evolving business models and ways of working in our markets.

Our goal is to embed Ethics & Compliance up front, as part of the design, into existing and new ways of operating, and to engrain Ethics and Compliance into the culture and mindset in IO. We aim to proactively identify and mitigate risks and leverage digital solutions in close cross-functional collaboration in IO. In addition, the Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance will be member of the Global Compliance Forum and IO Legal & Compliance Leadership Team, as well as chair the IO Compliance Committee and the IO Ethics & Compliance team, in collaboration with the regional heads.

Qualifications

You hold a master’s degree and have gained several years practical Legal or Compliance experience, working in Legal, Compliance or Business roles. During this time, you have gained people management responsibility and you have driven international projects. You are motivated to improve the lives of patients and you are looking for an organisation where you connect with its purpose, play an integral role in its growth journey, whilst strengthening an ethical culture and driving the company values across the organisation.

Furthermore:

• Your excellent written and oral communication skills enable you to engage on complex issues with colleagues from different organisational levels and multi-cultural backgrounds
• You describe yourself as proactive, ambitious, pragmatic, with a solid understanding of the emerging Ethics & Compliance topics around the world, with a deep interest to innovate in this area
• You demonstrate strategic thinking and can make Ethics & Compliance topics simple, ensuring that you other stakeholders can deliver with speed

About the Department

Headquartered in Zurich, International Operations (IO) covers 22 time-zones and has over 16,000 employees around the world working passionately to change over 25 million patients’ lives each day. As a key driver of Novo Nordisk’s growth, and a geographical scope of 7 Regions covering 194 countries, IO offers a dynamic environment and a world of opportunities. Novo Nordisk International Operations, Strategic Operations (IO-SO), is based in Zürich, Switzerland.

The Legal, Compliance & Quality Function is all about co-driving and supporting business growth while safeguarding the company and its patients. This function and its role in the organisation has evolved and goes beyond being just advisers but today we partner with the business to drive the new ways of working, manage/foresee risks and empower the different functions to seize opportunities to better serve our patients and outperform competition.

At Novo Nordisk, we aim to hire the best talent and support their development by acting as a Talent Incubator. To ensure the development of our high potential talents at Novo Nordisk, the IO-SO Office in Zurich serves as a Talent Hub which offers employees the opportunity to gain exposure to and experience in the strategic office and establish their international network, before moving on to positions in global, the regions and markets where they can share their expertise and make space for future talents to have an opportunity to experience rotations. For a position like this, international mobility within a time horizon of three years is a requirement.

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

If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your motivation letter, CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool. For further questions, reach out to [email protected]

Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by 26th August 2022.

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.