Senior Counsel - Business Development

About the Department 

The Novo Nordisk Cambridge location is the headquarters for Global Business Development across all of our therapeutic and technology areas. We contribute to innovation in one of the world's largest life sciences ecosystems by participating in events and discussions with renowned and upcoming scientists looking for the next scientific breakthrough to bring transformative treatments to patients. We work with start-ups, established companies, venture capitalists, teaching hospitals, and academic institutions to support the development of innovation for mutual benefit, and to help patients in all of our current therapy areas. Through a variety of partnership models, we accelerate ideas from the lab and clinic to advance and expand our product portfolio and to improve outcomes for the patients we serve.

This position will either be located in Cambridge, Massachusetts or Plainsboro, NJ and will work together with R&D Business Development team located in Cambridge. 

The Position

The Senior Counsel provides legal advice and support to R&D Business Development. The work focuses on drafting and negotiating various types of key strategic agreements for Novo Nordisk such as licensing agreements, research and development collaborations and partnerships, M&A agreements, and support on various transactional intellectual property matters.

The Sr. Counsel engages with a diverse range of stakeholders within the business and across Global Legal. This role will work closely with Business Development, Global R&D teams located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Denmark, as well as other Novo Nordisk lawyers in Novo Nordisk's US headquarters in Plainsboro, New Jersey. As part of the Global Legal organization, this position is also involved with cross-functional global legal projects and has opportunities, both in the United States and abroad, for further professional development.

Relationships

This position reports to the Vice President – Legal Business Development & Trademarks located in Denmark. The position is a key member of the highly collaborative and high-performing Legal Business Development & Digital Health team which provides legal support to Novo Nordisk’s global Business Development teams, Global Research, Digital Health, including leading support for IP licensing transactions, M&A and other global strategic collaborations.  The team is primarily located in Novo Nordisk’s headquarters in Denmark, with a small team presense in Cambridge, MA.  Novo Nordisk's Global Legal organization has more than 250 global legal colleagues situated at 40+ locatoins around the world with US headquarters in Plainsboro, NJ.

Essential Functions

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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