Are you passionate about ensuring compliance and fostering a culture of integrity? Do you have the expertise to lead a compliance team and protect a company's reputation? If so, you might be our new Ethics and Compliance Director! Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department
Novo Nordisk Japan's Legal, Ethics & Compliance Division ensures the organization complies with legal and regulatory requirements. Our activities include providing legal counsel/support in areas related to the business, ensuring ethical conduct, and maintaining compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards. We are a dynamic and collaborative team based in Japan, dedicated to protecting and leveraging the organization’s key assets and interests. The role will report directly to VP of Legal, Ethics & Compliance.

The position
As an Ethics and Compliance Director at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Design, implement, and optimize the Business Ethics (BE) compliance program in alignment with Novo Nordisk’s global framework and local regulations. The program includes infrastructure and fostering a compliance culture. It addresses risks related to FCPA, anti-bribery laws, and rules on interactions with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), Healthcare Institutions (HCIs), patients, and product promotion. Involves project management and coordination with senior management in Japan and globally.
• Help the business leaders take intelligent risks through clear-cut BE compliance risk analysis and help them drive growth initiatives. Oversee all Line of Business (LoB) and provide various compliance support including consultation, reviewing communication material, training, and solving complex problems either directly or together with the team.
• Represent Region Japan in Novo Nordisk’s Global Compliance Forum (GCF) to influence GCF decision making, ensure alignment, and seek timely support for Region Japan. Also share best practices, learn from each other, and contribute globally.
• Manage compliance team including organization development and attract, retain, and develop talents in the team. Proactively assist the Head of Legal, Ethics & Compliance to manage the department including establishing strategies and priorities at department level.
• Lead compliance investigations, collaborate with People & Organization (P&O) on disciplinary committee matters, serve as the Data Privacy Representative for Region Japan, represent the company in industry associations such as Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA) or European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) as appropriate, and handle all other tasks related to or ancillary to the above.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in law is required; legal qualification (Japan, US/UK/Australia, or a similar jurisdiction) is preferred.
• A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in compliance, within a company, firm, or regulatory authority, is required; experience in healthcare industry compliance and people management is strongly preferred.
• A legal mindset with logical thinking, a rule-based approach, and strong skills in interpretation and application.
• Proficient in clear and logical communication (both written and verbal), with executive communication skills and the ability to manage multi-stakeholder relationships.
• Strong expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing compliance infrastructure, including rule-setting, tool development, training and communication, pre-approval and post-monitoring processes, reporting, investigations, corrective/preventive actions, and IT utilization.
• Project management expertise, with a passion for integrity, compliance culture, learning, personal development, and fluency in both Japanese and English.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
12 February 2025
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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