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Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Legal Counsel and Ethics, Risk & Compliance (ERC) Associate to provide expert legal counsel and ERC support to our business functions. This role involves acting as a trusted legal advisor and business partner, negotiating contracts, managing litigation, and offering guidance on complex legal issues.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Legal Counsel and Ethics, Risk & Compliance (ERC) Associate to provide expert legal counsel and ERC support to our business functions. This role involves acting as a trusted legal advisor and business partner, negotiating contracts, managing litigation, and offering guidance on complex legal issues.
Major Accountabilities
* Serve as a legal and ERC business partner to the Country Head, overseeing contractual negotiations and statutory obligations.
* Independently draft and review complex transactions and contracts, providing nuanced legal advice and guidance across various functions, including business partnering, marketing, and retail.
* Identify and mitigate risks associated with business activities, raising awareness of legal issues and ensuring early legal involvement.
* Conduct thorough risk assessments to support management decision-making processes.
* Manage significant disputes, litigation, and investigations, making independent decisions within a broad framework.
* Lead, direct, and develop the legal resources within Sandoz.
* Ensure timely reporting of technical complaints, adverse events, special case scenarios related to Sandoz products within 24 hours of receipt and oversee the distribution of marketing samples where applicable.
Key Performance Indicators
* Deliver problem-solving, business-oriented legal advice, with effectiveness assessed through customer feedback.
* Ensure compliance with reporting obligations.
* Prioritize and manage a diverse workload effectively.
Work Experience
* Extensive experience in the pharmaceutical sector.
* Proven project management skills.
* Strong sense of accountability.
* Expertise in risk management and monitoring.
* Broad functional knowledge.
Key Competencies
* Exceptional problem-solving abilities.
* In-depth knowledge of industry practices and standards.
* Proficiency in core work processes.
* Comprehensive legal support capabilities.
* Effective cost management.
* Advanced legal analysis and opinion formulation.
* Strong corporate branding acumen.
* Expertise in legal risk assessment.
* Ability to handle high-complexity legal matters.
* Specialised knowledge in pharmaceutical intellectual property.
* Excellent stress management skills.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the medicines industry. Sandoz touches the lives of almost 500 million patients every year worldwide and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more! With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious associates in an agile and collegiate environment where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!
As part of our commitment to our culture locally we are proud to be certified and recognised as a Great Place to Work employer for the third year in a row. In addition to this, in 2023 and 2024 we were listed as one of the top 50 Australian companies on the Great Place to Work for Women list and we placed 2nd in Australia’s Best Workplaces in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals 2024.
The future is ours to shape!
#Sandoz
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Legal
* Industries
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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