Job Description

Are you an experienced leader ready for an exciting and complex management role within Legal? Can you set strategic direction, inspire and motivate employees, and drive performance across a team of highly skilled professionals? Then you might be our new Associate Director – Legal in Global Business Services (GBS) in Bangalore, India.
About the department Global Legal Global Business Services (GL-GBS) at Bangalore was established in 2011 and supports the Global legal organisation across International Operations, North America Operations and Headquarters. The unit is anchored under Global Legal Operations and responsible for delivering efficient off-shoring legal services in high quality. Examples include end-to-end contract management, trademark portfolio management, promotional materials review, export controls screenings, system/process management, data management, and digitalisation.
The position As an Director - Legal, you will be responsible for:

• Lead and drive strategic development and day-to-day management of Global Legal-GBS.
• Provide best-in-class offshoring services to Global Legal and Novo Nordisk Line of Business worldwide aligned with the Global Legal & Patents Strategy, incl. through external benchmarking leveraging best practices
• Ensure best organizational set up and effective use of resources
• Hire, motivate, supervise, and develop GL-GBS employees
• Oversee performance and development of the function, its sub-teams, services and employees, incl. by strengthening existing and developing new service offerings
• Close collaboration with Global Legal Operations to drive operational excellence, incl. through optimising legal services to the global business and free up Global Legal specialist time (examples include contract management, system and process ownership/support, rendering legal advice within defined categories, trademarks, and digitalisation

Qualifications

• Relevant Master degree (e.g. Law, Business, Finance)
• 8+ years of applicable management experience
• Strong experience driving operational excellence
• Used to work in close cooperation with senior management and external partners/advisors
• Experience from an international company operating globally (in a matrix, across many jurisdictions and with different functions and cultures)
• Fluent in English, written and spoken

Working at Novo Nordisk At Novo Nordisk, we strive for excellence. You share the same passion and commitment as our employees in our journey to make a difference to patients’ lives. In exchange, we offer you the chance of a lifetime to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from unmatched opportunities for professional and personal development.
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Deadline 6th September 2022
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants 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.