Job Description

Department - Global Legal GSC

Location - Bangalore, India

Does your motivation come from challenges and working in a dynamic environment? Do you thrive in a working environment where close collaboration with key stakeholders and strategic alignment is essential? Do you have a can-do attitude with continuous improvement as one of your career objectives? Then we might have the right position for you. Apply now and join a growing team, working in an international environment.

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 offshoring 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 a legal counsel, you will be responsible for assist Global Legal Organization and Line of business (LoB) in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and perform other contract related tasks as:

Contract review in collaboration with Global Legal Lawyers and line of business. Review contracts, either contracts prepared on the basis of Novo Nordisk standard templates or contracts received from counterparties; prepare and draft contracts in collaboration with Global Legal lawyers when no standard template is available. Take responsibility of end-to-end process of contracting for low and mid complex contracts. Responding to complex contractual queries. Identification of risks and issues and suggesting alternatives that lead to the best solution.

• Analyze contract requirements, terms and condition and other content to ensure compliance with appropriate laws.
• Negotiate contracts on behalf of Global Legal lawyers or LoB (Line of Business).
• Ensure contractual compliance post execution within the contract management system, provide help in standardizing the contract processes within contract management system.
• Create high level impact by delivering tangible or intangible dollar value savings.
• Provide periodical training to the CoE(Contracting Centre of Excellence) team members. Perform quality checks on the work carried out by the team members.

Qualifications

The below qualifications are required:

• Master or bachelor's in law. 8 to 10 years of experience in supporting legal department of global corporations in drafting, reviewing and red lining contracts.
• Understanding and experience of end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management.
• Strong understanding of contractual terms and conditions to draft, review, revise contracts, risk mitigation and negotiation. Exposure of working in a global company.
• Personal drive and ability to innovate and improve processes and work product.
• Exposure to contract management tool would be preferred.
• High quality, accountability, legal integrity, business mindset, ability to work independently and in teams.
• Excellent English language written and verbal communication skills and good presentation skills.

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 energise 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

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Deadline

21st September 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.