Job Description
Major accountabilities:
- Adopt a pro-active, business focused approach by:
- Serving as single point of contact for all Legal & Compliance tasks in a country for commercial and non-commercial sites, incl. coordinating data privacy, antitrust, etc. topics with Global Leads and Teams
- Providing Legal & Compliance advice and determining appropriate actions/ processes in line with local strategy, local legal trends, legislation changes (marketing, tender, sales, launches, customer-facing activities, regulatory)
- Managing matters and litigation (Legislative matters, antibribery, unfair competition and anti-trust, P&O, liabilities, etc.)
- Negotiating, drafting and management of commercial agreements (focusing on sell side)
- Managing local Corporate topics in alignment with global team
- Legal & Compliance reporting, monitoring & training, incl. transparency reporting, dawn-raid training
- Support of P3, CoI, RAM, ERM, audits, TPRM, contract management, etc.
- As a member of the Country Leadership Team, pro-actively contribute to strategy and business discussions, decisions, and outcomes.
- Consistently explore opportunities to improve and strengthen the culture of compliance, looking for ways of addressing risks in an efficient and agile manner.
- Support investigations conducted by Authorities, Corporate Security and Speak-Up on legal and compliance issues.
- Build a highly skilled legal and compliance function. Support knowledge sharing and talent exchange beyond the country and cluster.
- Build and review country outside counsel panels, manage outside counsel to budget.
What You'll Bring To The Role
- Bachelor degree in Law
- 10+ years post qualification experience required: ideally gained within a healthcare / pharmaceutical environment, and/or, with a top-tier law firm representing healthcare & technology clients with 5+ years of experience in managerial roles.
- Fluency in English essential; Knowledge of at least one other language preferred.
- Experience in managing Legal & Compliance teams, work and projects
- Ability to analyse complex legal and compliance issues.
- Strong verbal & written communication skills; together with a high ability to influence and negotiate.
- Proven ability to deal positively when working within tight time pressures & demanding clients.
- Financial/business acumen and business partnering skills
- Demonstrate professional & culturally sensitive work ethics
- Change agility and resilience
Why Sandoz
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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