Legal Manager

Legal Manager

Category: Legal, Compliance & Audit

Location:Paris, Île-de-France, FR

Looking for a role where legal expertise truly shapes business decisions? This position offers strategic influence across pharma law, commercial law, compliance, and clinical activities, with strong exposure to senior stakeholders and real ownership of complex topics. Apply today and join our French affiliate

Your new role

In this role, you will provide end-to-end legal support across the pharmaceutical value chain, with a strong focus on proactively identifying and managing legal, regulatory, and compliance risks. You will act as a trusted legal partner to the business, contributing expert advice on complex matters while supporting cross-functional initiatives and ensuring alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as subject matter expert for legal matters, including pharma law, litigation, commercial and competition law, anti-corruption (LEA), and clinical operations.
• Provide legal guidance on commercial cooperation agreements with private entities, pharmacies, and pharmacy networks, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts such as rebate agreements, distribution arrangements, and promotional activities.
• Proactively identify legal and compliance risks and develop pragmatic, business-oriented solutions.
• Serve as the primary legal contact for the French Clinical Development Centre (CDC) and represent LEC in the FR CDC Leadership Team.
• Support strategic decision-making by advising stakeholders, monitoring legal developments, and improving legal processes and best practices.

Your New Department

Our Legal & Compliance team consists of 3 lawyers and one senior compliance manager and is supervised by the Legal and Compliance Director. It is a dynamic team where collaboration and mutual support are key. We work in an environment that values openness, trust, and proactive problem-solving, fostering a positive and inclusive culture.

Team members share knowledge, celebrate successes together, and maintain a strong sense of camaraderie.

Your skills & Qualifications

• Law degree (LLB or equivalent) required; advanced legal qualifications (LLM) and Bar admission preferred.
• 6–8 years of relevant legal experience, including providing strategic legal counsel and managing complex matters, preferably in pharmaceutical sector or large distribution/retail environments.
• Proven experience in drafting, reviewing, approving, and negotiating legal documents, as well as representing organisations in specialised proceedings.
• Strong legal expertise in contracts, compliance, and corporate/pharma-related law, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Strategic and analytical mindset, able to anticipate risks and deliver pragmatic, business-oriented legal solutions.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• High ethical standards, integrity, and sound judgement in all legal and compliance matters.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to team development.

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.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Deadline

Apply before 20 January Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

We're not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.