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Facility: Legal, Compliance & Audit
Location: Plainsboro, NJ, US
About the Department
The Legal department is comprised of our Legal and Patents functions. We depend on our legal team to help drive growth and maintain the highest level of standards and practices across all of our legal efforts. It’s a tall order, which is why we only hire those who thrive on protecting the interests of our patients, employees and business, all while creating and implementing efficient and innovative solutions. As part of the team, you’ll work with employees across the organization to oversee legal matters and provide guidance on strategies that drive business and policy priorities and shape the reputation of Novo Nordisk Inc. (NNI). At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication and ambition will help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we’ll offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development. Are you ready to realize your potential?
The Position
Responsible for leading the Legal department’s overall budget planning and prioritization, outside counsel management approach, and legal spend optimization efforts. Responsible for department’s financial planning and analysis, and shaping how the Legal department engages, manages, and derives value from outside counsel and other legal service providers. This role leads panel strategy, engagement negotiations, performance management, managing relationships with external resources, and ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support for the department.
Relationships
Reports to Associate Director, eDiscovery & Operations. Partners and collaborates with internal teams including Legal, Finance, and Procurement to achieve operational objectives in support of legal strategy. Interacts with individuals in other USO departments, global headquarters, and affiliate companies. Also interacts with external law firms and service providers, including eDiscovery and alternative legal service providers, and other business entities.
Essential Functions
Budgeting Strategy and Oversight:
- Manage and lead the strategic oversight of the Legal department’s overall budget, with a particular focus on analysing outside counsel and external legal spend, working closely with finance and legal teams
- Lead the annual and quarterly budget development, forecasting, and ongoing spend management
- Monitor department-wide spend trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide recommendations to improve budget discipline, predictability, and resource allocation
- Ensure accurate and transparent financial management of external legal service providers
- Partner with in-house counsel and matter owners to identify cost optimization
- Support Legal leadership in making informed decisions about departmental spending priorities and trade-offs
Resource Engagement and Contract Negotiation:
- Develop and lead the Legal Department’s outside counsel strategy across practice areas, jurisdictions, and matter types
- Advise on external resourcing strategy, how to align staffing and fee structures with the needs of the matter
- Design and manage preferred-firm and panel strategies, include law firm segmentation, consolidation opportunities, competitive sourcing, and governance framework
- Support selection process of outside counsel based on expertise, service model, cost, overall value, and appropriateness for a specific matter
- Lead the engagement process with external resources, including legal process outsourcing companies, managed review, and other service vendors, including negotiations of global engagement agreements with law firms
- Develop consistent approaches to rate reviews, rate increase requests, and fee negotiations
- Monitor matters for changes in scope, budget, or staffing and recommend proactive interventions to improve efficiency and predictability
- Evaluate opportunities to improve matter economics through staffing changes, phased budgets, alternative fee arrangements, portfolio approaches, or use of lower-cost providers, where appropriate
- Ensure compliance with company goals, and legal and regulatory requirements with all external engagements
- Create templates, playbooks, and negotiation standards to drive consistency and leverage outside counsel relationships
- Provide support for presentation materials for key steering and strategy group meetings (e.g. EVP Steering Group, Litigation Strategy Group)
Relationship Management and Performance Evaluation:
- Develop and manage a framework for measuring law firm performance to assess overall value
- Lead regular business reviews with key law firms and make recommendations regarding continued use, expanded use, corrective action, or panel changes
- Serve as the primary liaison and relationship manager for external legal resources and provide feedback to law firms/providers to drive continuous improvement in service delivery
- Identify trends in law firm performance and legal spend to support stronger sourcing and matter-management decisions
- Collaborate with legal teams to ensure that external providers meet quality and efficiency standards
Process Improvement and Best Practices:
- Continuously assess and enhance processes related to budget strategy, external resource selection, engagement management, and performance evaluation
- Stay updated on industry best practices, market trends, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency in external resource engagement
- Handles highly confidential matters with discretion and judgment
Physical Requirements
0-10% overnight travel required.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor 's Degree required; relevant experience may be substituted for degree where appropriate. JD or MBA is a plus, but not required
- A minimum of 10 years of legal operations, outside counsel management, and/or spend management experience
- Demonstrated ability to identify and drive cost optimization opportunities across a portfolio of legal matters and vendors
- Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance
- At least 5 years of pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience strongly preferred
- Experience supporting or owning a department-wide legal budget
- Experience negotiating commercial terms, engagement agreements, rates, and alternative fee arrangement
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate financial and matter data into clear recommendations
- Excellent analytical, research, and organizational skills required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
- Must be a self-starter; flexible, customer-focused, and have a professional demeanour
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel
- Proficiency in eBilling and/or other matter/spend management and tracking tools (i.e. LegalTracker, SAP, COUPA) required
The base compensation range for this position is $120K to $222K. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.
Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flexible vacation policy, and parental leave policy.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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 defeating 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.
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.
If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Senior Legal Operations Manager
Facility: Legal, Compliance & Audit
Location: Plainsboro, NJ, US
About the Department
The Legal department is comprised of our Legal and Patents functions. We depend on our legal team to help drive growth and maintain the highest level of standards and practices across all of our legal efforts. It’s a tall order, which is why we only hire those who thrive on protecting the interests of our patients, employees and business, all while creating and implementing efficient and innovative solutions. As part of the team, you’ll work with employees across the organization to oversee legal matters and provide guidance on strategies that drive business and policy priorities and shape the reputation of Novo Nordisk Inc. (NNI). At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication and ambition will help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we’ll offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development. Are you ready to realize your potential?
The Position
Responsible for leading the Legal department’s overall budget planning and prioritization, outside counsel management approach, and legal spend optimization efforts. Responsible for department’s financial planning and analysis, and shaping how the Legal department engages, manages, and derives value from outside counsel and other legal service providers. This role leads panel strategy, engagement negotiations, performance management, managing relationships with external resources, and ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support for the department.
Relationships
Reports to Associate Director, eDiscovery & Operations. Partners and collaborates with internal teams including Legal, Finance, and Procurement to achieve operational objectives in support of legal strategy. Interacts with individuals in other USO departments, global headquarters, and affiliate companies. Also interacts with external law firms and service providers, including eDiscovery and alternative legal service providers, and other business entities.
Essential Functions
Budgeting Strategy and Oversight:
- Manage and lead the strategic oversight of the Legal department’s overall budget, with a particular focus on analysing outside counsel and external legal spend, working closely with finance and legal teams
- Lead the annual and quarterly budget development, forecasting, and ongoing spend management
- Monitor department-wide spend trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide recommendations to improve budget discipline, predictability, and resource allocation
- Ensure accurate and transparent financial management of external legal service providers
- Partner with in-house counsel and matter owners to identify cost optimization
- Support Legal leadership in making informed decisions about departmental spending priorities and trade-offs
Resource Engagement and Contract Negotiation:
- Develop and lead the Legal Department’s outside counsel strategy across practice areas, jurisdictions, and matter types
- Advise on external resourcing strategy, how to align staffing and fee structures with the needs of the matter
- Design and manage preferred-firm and panel strategies, include law firm segmentation, consolidation opportunities, competitive sourcing, and governance framework
- Support selection process of outside counsel based on expertise, service model, cost, overall value, and appropriateness for a specific matter
- Lead the engagement process with external resources, including legal process outsourcing companies, managed review, and other service vendors, including negotiations of global engagement agreements with law firms
- Develop consistent approaches to rate reviews, rate increase requests, and fee negotiations
- Monitor matters for changes in scope, budget, or staffing and recommend proactive interventions to improve efficiency and predictability
- Evaluate opportunities to improve matter economics through staffing changes, phased budgets, alternative fee arrangements, portfolio approaches, or use of lower-cost providers, where appropriate
- Ensure compliance with company goals, and legal and regulatory requirements with all external engagements
- Create templates, playbooks, and negotiation standards to drive consistency and leverage outside counsel relationships
- Provide support for presentation materials for key steering and strategy group meetings (e.g. EVP Steering Group, Litigation Strategy Group)
Relationship Management and Performance Evaluation:
- Develop and manage a framework for measuring law firm performance to assess overall value
- Lead regular business reviews with key law firms and make recommendations regarding continued use, expanded use, corrective action, or panel changes
- Serve as the primary liaison and relationship manager for external legal resources and provide feedback to law firms/providers to drive continuous improvement in service delivery
- Identify trends in law firm performance and legal spend to support stronger sourcing and matter-management decisions
- Collaborate with legal teams to ensure that external providers meet quality and efficiency standards
Process Improvement and Best Practices:
- Continuously assess and enhance processes related to budget strategy, external resource selection, engagement management, and performance evaluation
- Stay updated on industry best practices, market trends, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency in external resource engagement
- Handles highly confidential matters with discretion and judgment
Physical Requirements
0-10% overnight travel required.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor 's Degree required; relevant experience may be substituted for degree where appropriate. JD or MBA is a plus, but not required
- A minimum of 10 years of legal operations, outside counsel management, and/or spend management experience
- Demonstrated ability to identify and drive cost optimization opportunities across a portfolio of legal matters and vendors
- Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance
- At least 5 years of pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience strongly preferred
- Experience supporting or owning a department-wide legal budget
- Experience negotiating commercial terms, engagement agreements, rates, and alternative fee arrangement
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate financial and matter data into clear recommendations
- Excellent analytical, research, and organizational skills required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
- Must be a self-starter; flexible, customer-focused, and have a professional demeanour
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel
- Proficiency in eBilling and/or other matter/spend management and tracking tools (i.e. LegalTracker, SAP, COUPA) required
The base compensation range for this position is $120K to $222K. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.
Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flexible vacation policy, and parental leave policy.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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 defeating 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.
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.
If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Legal Operations Manager
Match your degree to the TN category
Legal Operations Manager roles get filed under attorney, management consultant, or economist categories depending on your background. Your degree must align with the category your employer selects, so confirm the classification before any offer is finalized.
Target law firms and legal tech companies
In-house legal departments at large corporations and law firms actively hire Legal Operations Managers and are familiar with TN sponsorship. These employers typically have established immigration counsel and won't need coaching on the process.
Request a support letter covering all TN criteria
Your employer's support letter must specify your prearranged employment, your qualifying role, and your degree's direct relevance to the position. A letter missing any of these elements is the most common reason CBP requests additional documentation at the border.
Use Migrate Mate to find employers already sponsoring TN roles
Filtering for employers experienced with visa sponsorship saves significant time over cold outreach. Migrate Mate surfaces Legal Operations Manager openings from companies with recent visa filings, so your application lands with employers already familiar with sponsoring work visas and prepared to support your TN application process.
Prepare for the management consultant scrutiny at the border
CBP officers sometimes question whether a Legal Operations Manager role constitutes true management consulting under the USMCA definition. Bring a detailed job description emphasizing advisory functions and measurable deliverables, not administrative or staff management duties.
Understand Mexican nationals face a finite annual allocation
Mexico's TN allocation is capped annually, unlike Canada's uncapped access. Mexican nationals should consult the nearest U.S. consulate to confirm current availability before accepting an offer, since timing the visa application matters when slots are limited.
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Find Legal Operations Manager JobsLegal Operations Manager TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Legal Operations Manager role actually qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, but the qualifying category depends on your credentials and how the role is scoped. Candidates with a law degree can qualify under the attorney category. Those with a business or management degree may qualify under management consultant, provided the role involves advisory functions with defined deliverables rather than ongoing staff supervision or administrative coordination.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for Legal Operations Manager roles?
TN visa sponsorship is faster and more predictable for this role. There's no lottery, no annual cap for Canadian citizens, and your employer can secure approval at a Canadian port of entry in a single day. H-1B requires filing months in advance, surviving a random lottery, and waiting for a start date. For Legal Operations Managers with Canadian or Mexican citizenship, TN is the practical first choice.
Where can I find Legal Operations Manager jobs where the employer already understands TN sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by employer visa sponsorship experience, so you're not wasting time approaching companies unfamiliar with work visa processes. Legal Operations Manager roles at law firms and corporate legal departments with recent visa filings appear on the platform, and those employers can move faster because they've navigated immigration sponsorship before. Since TN sponsorship requires only a support letter from your employer—no government filings or certifications needed—experienced sponsors understand the streamlined process and can prepare documentation quickly.
What credentials does a Mexican national need to qualify for TN sponsorship as a Legal Operations Manager?
Mexican nationals need a qualifying degree in law, business administration, or a directly related field, plus a concrete job offer from a U.S. employer. Unlike Canadian nationals who can be approved at the border, Mexican nationals must apply for a TN visa stamp at a U.S. consulate, and availability is subject to the annual cap for Mexico.
Can I switch Legal Operations Manager employers while on a TN visa?
Yes, but your TN status is tied to your current employer. Before you start with a new company, that employer must file a new TN petition or accompany you to the border for a fresh CBP approval. You cannot begin working for the new employer until the new TN is approved, so plan the transition with your start date in mind.
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