Legal Counsel Global Transactions (d/f/m)

Job Description Summary

Strategic legal partner for global Sandoz transactions business teams to drive sustainable growth at Sandoz, acting as autonomous legal lead for transactions in the M&A/divestments and/or BD&L space and supporting more senior counsels on highly complex transactions. Role model for a business-focused approach, proactively contributing to critical decisions and escalations based on deep legal expertise and pragmatic risk judgement. Management of stakeholders across Sandoz and close collaboration with experts both within Legal & Compliance and in other functions. Professional management of external counsel, including management of budgets. Management of disputes.

Job Description

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Key legal partner to the global M&A, divestment and BD&L teams (Biopharma and Small Molecule), providing strategic legal advice to drive successful dealmaking in the interests of Sandoz
• Independently lead global transactions, bringing specific transactional legal expertise to drafting and negotiations and in the provision of practical, relevant legal advice
• Demonstrate agility in leading different types of transactions across diverse geographies and across different stages of transactions, from internal coordination on DD and structuring advice through to post-closing and integration/separation or alliance management matters, including efficiently managing disputes
• Lead negotiations and drafting with and without external counsel support, in close alignment with key business partners
• Assess, identify and communicate material risks and recommendations to mitigate in a pragmatic, business-orientated way and proactively implement solutions where appropriate
• Ensure a close coordination between Legal (in-house and external counsel) and key stakeholders, including collaborating with experts across all relevant functions as well with regions/countries to drive consistency and efficiency across Sandoz
• Monitor and manage external counsel appropriately, properly allocating work between internal and external and actively managing legal spend
• Manage workload and prioritize appropriately with manager support, in close alignment with Sandoz’s risks and opportunities, including simplifying processes and practices where appropriate
• Pro-actively develop and roll out legal resources for transactions, including standardized template agreements, effective trainings and workshops, harmonization of standards and processes to enable simplification and optimize management of risk and resources

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Law school graduate and Bar member
• At least 5 years of experience working as legal advisor in a top-tier law firm and/or in-house, ideally including experience within a healthcare / pharmaceutical environment
• Transactional experience in an international environment. M&A experience a plus.
• Proven ability to handle a high volume of activity involving multiple, often complex projects simultaneously
• Strong drafting skills, as well as excellent verbal & written communication skills; together with a high ability to influence and negotiate
• Ability to analyze complex legal issues and risks under time pressure and communicate impact and practical recommendations to business and management clearly and succinctly
• Deep interest in understanding Sandoz’s business, purpose and strategy and passion to add real value in that context
• Professional & culturally sensitive work ethic
• Ability to handle detail and keep overview, seeing issues in a broader context
• Fluency in English

As part of your application, please submit your current CV as well as proof of your highest educational qualification (e.g., diploma, master’s degree, doctorate). Additional documents such as employment references may be uploaded optionally but are not mandatory.

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

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.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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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, Tax