Director II, Legal & Compliance

Overall purpose of the role

• The Head of Legal & Compliance, China provides strategic leadership and oversight of legal and compliance matters across Mainland China and Hong Kong, enabling Lundbeck to deliver its Focused Innovator strategy with integrity and accountability.
• As a member of the China Leadership Team, the role serves as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and senior leadership, contributing to business strategy and critical decisions while safeguarding Lundbeck's legal, ethical, and reputational interests.
• The position leads both the legal and compliance agendas, ensuring effective legal governance, proactive risk management, a robust compliance framework, and a strong culture of integrity and accountability.
• Working closely with Global Legal & Compliance, the role connects local business needs with global expertise and priorities, supporting consistent standards, effective business partnering, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership and business partnership

• Serve as a key member of the China Leadership Team, contributing to business strategy, organizational priorities, and critical decisions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and senior leadership on legal, compliance, governance, and reputational matters.
• Anticipate emerging legal, regulatory, and business challenges, providing forward-looking insights to support sustainable business performance.
• Influence business decisions through independent judgment, constructive challenge, and pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

• Partner with business leaders to enable responsible business initiatives, strategic partnerships, and evolving business models.

• Legal leadership and governance

• Set the strategic direction for legal affairs across Mainland China and Hong Kong, ensuring effective legal governance and alignment with Lundbeck's global standards.
• Provide strategic legal advice on commercial operations, business partnerships, corporate governance, competition law, employment matters, and other relevant legal areas, while engaging with Corporate Patents and other relevant global functions on intellectual property matters affecting the China business.
• Lead legal risk assessment and mitigation for strategic business initiatives, complex transactions, and evolving business models.
• Oversee significant contracts, disputes, litigation, and other material legal matters, ensuring appropriate management and escalation of risks.
• Anticipate legal and regulatory developments, advising leadership on potential business implications and necessary actions.
• Strengthen legal processes, contracting practices, and governance to enable efficient and responsible business operations.
• Leverage global legal expertise and external counsel to address complex matters and deliver high-quality legal support.

• Ethics, compliance and risk leadership

• Set the strategic direction for Lundbeck's ethics and compliance program across Mainland China and Hong Kong, ensuring alignment with global standards and local regulatory requirements.
• Establish effective compliance governance and oversight, with clear accountability, appropriate internal controls, and risk-based monitoring.
• Provide leadership on key pharmaceutical compliance risks, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, promotional practices, healthcare stakeholder interactions, third-party engagements, and transparency requirements.
• Ensure material compliance risks are proactively identified, assessed, mitigated, and escalated, with effective oversight of investigations and remediation.
• Anticipate emerging compliance risks and regulatory developments, strengthening the organization's ability to respond proactively.
• Champion a culture of integrity, ethical conduct, and accountability, setting the tone through personal leadership and sound judgment.
• Influence business leaders to embed ethical conduct and compliance ownership into strategic decisions and everyday business practices.

• Global collaboration and functional transformation

• Serve as the key link between China and Global Legal & Compliance, ensuring alignment with global priorities while addressing local business and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with global legal and compliance teams to strengthen local capabilities, governance, and consistent ways of working.
• Contribute local perspectives and expertise to global initiatives, helping shape effective policies, processes, and risk management approaches.
• Drive functional effectiveness through simplified processes, clearer accountability, and responsible use of technology, automation, AI, data, and analytics.

• People and organizational leadership

• Lead and develop the China Legal & Compliance team, building strong capabilities, engagement, and a high-performing culture.
• Set clear strategic priorities and ensure effective deployment of resources and expertise across Mainland China and Hong Kong.
• Develop talent, empower team members, and foster collaboration across local and global functions.
• Model Lundbeck's Three Behaviors - Curiosity, Adaptability, and Accountability - and inspire these behaviors across the organization.

Role Specific Competencies

• Professional qualifications and experience

• University degree in law, audit, finance, business related subjects etc.; professional legal qualification in Mainland China or another relevant jurisdiction preferred.
• Significant leadership experience in legal and compliance functions, preferably within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Proven ability to operate as a strategic advisor to senior management and influence business strategy and critical decisions.
• Strong understanding of the legal, regulatory, and pharmaceutical compliance environment in Mainland China, with the ability to oversee relevant matters in Hong Kong.
• Demonstrated experience in corporate and commercial legal matters, legal risk management, governance, and complex business transactions.
• Strong experience in compliance program leadership, risk management, internal controls, and complex compliance matters.
• Experience working in a multinational environment, navigating complex stakeholder relationships, and collaborating with global functions.
• Demonstrated success in leading teams, driving organizational change, and building functional capabilities.

• Leadership capabilities and personal attributes

• Enterprise leadership: Thinks beyond functional boundaries and contributes to the broader success and long-term sustainability of the business.
• Strategic mindset and business acumen: Connects legal and compliance priorities with business strategy and anticipates emerging challenges.
• Integrity and courage: Demonstrates independent judgment, ethical leadership, and the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Influence and collaboration: Builds credibility and trusted relationships with senior leaders and diverse stakeholders.
• Risk-based decision-making: Balances business opportunities with legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations.
• People leadership: Inspires, develops, and empowers teams to deliver strong organizational impact.

• Language requirements

• Excellent written and spoken English and able to operate in Chinese and cross cultures.

• Key measures of success

• Legal & Compliance is recognized as a trusted strategic partner and influential member of the China Leadership Team.
• Legal risks are proactively managed, with effective governance and high-quality legal support for strategic business decisions.
• A robust, risk-based compliance framework enables responsible business performance and effective compliance risk management.
• Ethical leadership, sound governance, and accountability are embedded across the organization.
• Strong alignment and collaboration are maintained with Global Legal & Compliance.
• The China Legal & Compliance function demonstrates strong leadership, capabilities, and continuous improvement.

About Lundbeck
At Lundbeck, our most important contribution is easing the burden of the millions of people living with brain disorders. Whether it is migraine, depression, or other brain disorders, patients, their careers, and society as a whole depend on us.


Through cutting edge science and strong partnerships, we develop and market some of the world's leading treatments, expanding into neuro-specialty and neuro-rare from our strong legacy within psychiatry and neurology.


The brain health challenge is real. Our commitment is real. Our impact is real.

About Lundbeck


At Lundbeck, our most important contribution is easing the burden of the millions of people living with brain disorders. Whether it is migraine, depression, or other brain disorders, patients, their carers, and society as a whole depend on us.


Through cutting edge science and strong partnerships, we develop and market some of the world's leading treatments, expanding into neuro-specialty and neuro-rare from our strong legacy within psychiatry and neurology.


The brain health challenge is real. Our commitment is real. Our impact is real.