Provide legal counsel to business functions, negotiate contracts, manage litigation, and guide legal resources while ensuring compliance and risk management.
Job Description Summary
-To provide effective legal counsel to assigned business functions or teams within a global BF/BU or Corporate function or lead the function for a country organization, acting as a legal advisor and Business Partner, negotiating contracts, managing litigation and providing counseling on substantive area legal issues. To lead legal projects and transactionsTypically leads the Legal function for a small-medium country/ cluster of countries or manage a legal substantive area in larger countries/ regionJob Description
Major accountabilities:
- Act as a legal Business Partner to the Country Head in all activities relating to the contractual negotiations and statutory obligations.
- Draft complex transactions and contracts independently and provide complex and contextual legal advice and guidance (incl. training of key customers in specified legal areas).
- Identify risks relating to business activities and potential solutions thereof; raise business’ awareness of legal issues and ensure early legal involvement.
- Conduct robust risk assessments that substantiate recommendations, and advise on and determine appropriate actions to support the management decision processes.
- Manage significant disputes and litigation and/or investigations and make decisions independently within a broad framework.
- Guide, counsel and support the work of more junior Legal counsels, paralegals and support staff.
- Provide expertise in one or more substantive areas (e.g. Transactions, Litigation, HR and Regulatory).
- and lead legal projects and transactions (i.e.: Licensing and Divestment).
- Lead, direct and develop the legal resources within one business unit or across all business units in the country (depending on whether unit or cross-unit role).
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Sandoz products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
- Key performance indicators:
- Provide problem solving, business oriented legal advice; to be assessed with appropriate customer feedback.
- Compliance with reporting obligations.
- Setting priorities and managing a wide-ranging work load.
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Industry/ Business Exposure.
- Risk.
- Accountability.
- Functional Breadth.
- Project Management.
- People Leadership.
Skills:
- Business Development.
- Business Partners.
- Career Development.
- Computer Cluster.
- Data Privacy.
- Finance.
- Internet.
- Law (Legal System).
- Legal Advice.
- Litigation (Law).
- Negotiation Skills.
- Private Equity.
- Tax.
Languages :
- English.
Skills Desired
Business Development, Business Partners, Career Development, Computer Cluster, Data Privacy, Finance, Internet, Law (Legal System), Legal Advice, Litigation Law, Negotiation Skills, Private Equity, TaxTop Skills
Data Privacy
Finance
Legal System
Private Equity
Tax
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