Legal & Compliance Student Assistant

Are you a law student with an interest in the pharmaceutical industry, who wants to be part of improving the lives of people living with obesity and other serious chronic diseases in Sweden? If so, apply today and join us for a life-changing career at Novo Nordisk as we are looking for a Legal & Compliance Student Assistant to join our Legal & Compliance team in Malmö, Sweden.

The Position

As a Legal & Compliance Student Assistant, you will be working for 6-8 weeks during the summer of 2025, and two days per week during the autumn semester of 2025. There is a possibility to extend the position beyond 2025 and for the duration of your law studies. The position offers a high level of flexibility to ensure that your work can be planned according to your study schedule.

In this role, you will be supporting the Swedish organisation in legal, data protection and business ethics tasks such as contract review and negotiation, privacy-related issues, optimising compliance processes, conducting legal research and trainings for the organisation, and deep-diving in compliance matters such as the promotion of pharmaceuticals and collaboration with healthcare organizations and academia.

At Novo Nordisk, we never compromise on ethics. As Legal & Compliance Student Assistant, you will play an instrumental part in guiding the Swedish organisation on how to ensure that we meet external and internal requirements in projects where we are finding new ways of supporting patients, healthcare personnel, and decision-makers.

Qualifications

We are searching for a law student who is expected to graduate within the next two years. To thrive in this role, you should be interested in commercial law, data protection and in the pharmaceutical industry.

The ideal candidate is organised, detail-oriented and structured, with a strong academic record. We also believe that you are self-motivated and enjoy working together as a team. You have strong work ethics and are willing to take ownership of your own tasks. You should be open to undertake tasks in new and unknown areas of law.

Fluency in Swedish and good communication and presentation skills in English is required, as most of the work is done in English.

While the office is in Malmö, we offer flexible ways of working. If you are based outside the Malmö area, some travel to the office will still be needed.

About the Department

The Swedish Legal & Compliance department consists of four team members. We rely primarily on collaboration within the European and Canadian region that we are part of, where the Legal, Ethics & Compliance organisation consists of about 150 people. Ultimately, you will be part of the Global Legal, Intellectual Property and Security organisation, which gathers around 700 colleagues around the world.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company founded in 1923 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, employing more than 69,000 people in 80 countries and marketing our products in about 170 countries around the globe. The Swedish organisation gathers more than 100 people. About half of us are based at the office in Malmö, while our customer-facing teams and some – traditionally office-based – colleagues who are utilising the flexible way of work that we offer, are based in other parts of the country.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is rated the second most popular place to work according to Swedish students in a survey by Academic Works. At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change. We drive it. We are a dynamic company in a 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 and strive 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 are all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For more information about the position, please contact Novo Nordisk Sweden’s Legal & Compliance Director, Marcus Svensson, at +46 (0)73 046 53 49 or omcs@novonordisk.com .

For more information about Novo Nordisk, please visit www.novonordisk.se .

Please apply to the role via our online platform, as we do not accept directly sent CVs.

Deadline

Please apply no later than 30th January 2025.

Kindly note that applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you not to hesitate and 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.