Senior Ethics and Compliance Manager

Are you passionate about ensuring a robust compliance program in a truly global company? Do you have experience in business ethics within a global organisation? Are you ready for a role that offers significant influence on management decisions? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join Novo Nordisk Saudi Arabia as Senior Ethics & Compliance Manager based in Riyadh, working within the Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality (LECQ) Department. Apply now and embark on a life-changing career.

The Position

As Senior Ethics & Compliance Manager, you will be responsible for driving compliance in relation to local codes and regulations. In addition, you will be closely driving and managing initiatives in the areas of business ethics, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, data privacy, and human rights across Saudi Arabia. Moreover, you will also provide day to day compliance support to Novo Nordisk across the Kingdom.

Your main accountabilities will be:

• Effective coordination, alignment, communication, and implementation of the global, regional, and local Ethics and Compliance strategy, program, procedures, and activities

• Providing high quality compliance and ethics advice to protect the integrity of the company on all such matters

• Supporting an organisational and cultural mindset to ensure that Novo Nordisk in Saudi Arabia achieves ambitious business targets in respect of sustainability and efficiency while driving a high level of integrity amongst managers and employees

• Ensuring the consolidation of proactive and protective Compliance risk assessments and mitigation action plans

• Coordinating and reporting on ethics and compliance matters

Qualifications

To be successful in being offered this position, you must:

• be a professionally qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years’ post qualification experience working closely with compliance and ethics matters

• have a Bachelors’ degree (or equivalent) in law with strong communication and compliance skills

• have extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical regulation and business transactions within the pharmaceutical industry, working closely with local and/or international (EFPIA/IFPMA) codes of practice

• be fluent in written and spoken English

Line management experience is favourable but not a strict requirement.

About the Department

As Senior Ethics & Compliance Manager, you will be part of a dynamic and diverse international LECQ team which is growing rapidly, aligned to the growth of the business and the large economic transformation in the Kingdom. You will report directly to the Senior Director of LECQ for Saudi Arabia, driving forward a variety of projects and liaising closely with our Global and Regional Ethics & Compliance colleagues and groups.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with over 100 years’ legacy in driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. We are committed to making a difference to the lives of millions around the world.

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We are 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 to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we are all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

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Deadline

Apply before 29 November, 2024.

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.