Are you a trusted advisor who thrives at the intersection of ethics, business strategy, and collaboration? Does playing a pivotal role in embedding a culture of compliance and integrity across the organisation drive you? Here's your opportunity to shape a culture of integrity across Australia and New Zealand, partnering with teams across the business to ensure compliance is not just a requirement, but a shared value that drives better outcomes for patients.
Your new role
This North Sydney, office based role is a hands-on business-partnering position, where you will work collaboratively across all functions to embed ethics and compliance into everything we do. Your success will be measured not by policing, but by your ability to build trust, influence, and drive meaningful compliance outcomes through genuine partnerships.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Partnering across the business to embed foundational compliance program elements into local governance, decision-making forums, operational processes, and training initiatives
- Establishing and maintaining clear, robust controls that address both current and emerging risk areas, communicating not just what, but how and why
- Developing and executing monitoring plans, conducting root cause analyses, and designing corrective and preventive actions with cross-functional teams
- Providing compliance guidance on new business development and partnership initiatives, applying strong commercial acumen to integrate ethics into business decisions at all levels
- Leveraging technology, automation, and external best practices to simplify and enhance Business Ethics & Compliance capabilities
- Representing Novo Nordisk in local industry associations and championing the growth of Business Ethics & Compliance across the organisation
- Ensuring all business processes align with Novo Nordisk policies and applicable ANZ regulatory standards, maintaining constant audit readiness
Your new department
Within our Oceania affiliate, the Legal, Compliance & Quality (LCQ) team plays a critical role in safeguarding the organisation's integrity while enabling commercial ambition. You will join a collaborative team whose stakeholders span the full breadth of the business, from Medical, Marketing, and Business Development to Sales, making this a role with exceptional visibility and influence across the organisation.
Your skills & qualifications
We are looking for someone who brings both deep compliance expertise and the interpersonal skill to earn trust and influence outcomes across a diverse business. You will bring:
- 5+ years' experience preferably within pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare, with solid knowledge of local Australian and New Zealand laws, regulations, and industry codes
- Proven ability to influence without authority, earning trust through collaboration and credibility across complex, multi-layered organisations
- Cross-functional experience and appreciation for how different business areas operate and connect
- Comfort with technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools, including experience contributing to, or leading digital transformation initiatives
- A relevant Bachelor's degree (or higher)
- Strong strategic and critical thinking skills, with the ability to bring clarity to ambiguity and translate complexity into meaningful, practical steps
- An Australian citizen or permanent resident (mandatory)
Working at Novo Nordisk
Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job, you are becoming part of a story that spans generations, where integrity isn't just a principle but a practice that protects patients and empowers colleagues to do the right thing every day.
What we offer
In addition to being part of a collaborative and authentic culture, our employees are rewarded with Health and Wellbeing days, gifted leave between Christmas and New Year, extensive learning and development opportunities and regular team and company offsite events.
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.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. First nation's people are encouraged to apply.
At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.