Job Description Summary
Independently manage existing and new Engagements; develop, support and provide strategic input for all legal solutions, aligned with various divisions/functions particularly relating to Contract, Compliance and IP support. Supports and facilitates exploring expansion plans for the function.
Job Description
Major accountabilities:
- Act as a business partner in all activities relating to the contractual negotiations and company’s statutory obligations by substantiating recommendations and providing legal advice and assistance to the senior legal counsels/Head Legal.
- Draft basic transactions and contracts independently.
- Advise on, and assists management decision-making regarding, contract and other risks relating to business activities and provides potential solutions therefor.
- Manage and support activities regarding compliance issues, such as anti-trust and regulatory.
- Provide subject matter expertise, support and consultation to stakeholders
- Ensure quality control (QC) checks for the assigned projects/deliverable to meet stakeholder expectations
- Ensures functional onboarding of new associates, drives training and knowledge sharing sessions
- Drive end to end and cross functional thinking in all new projects
- Works closely with various stakeholders and design deliverable and a comprehensive derivable plan. Ensure timely, efficient, high quality delivery for projects and activities
- Follows and tracks key deliverable and milestones for assigned projects
- Conducts training/mentors new joiners for assigned topics/projects
- Complies with and support group's project management tool, standards, policies and initiatives
- Follows Novartis specifications, policies, guidelines and country guidelines for preparation and execution of contracts and follow and prepare process maps/SOP etc.
Minimum Requirements:
- Law Degree /Post Graduate Degree
- Experience in Contract Management
- Strong scientific /management background
- 10-15 years of overall work experience with a leading pharma company/legal service provider
- Excellent communication skills
- Familiarity with quality KPIs and operational issues/management
- Effective communication/knowledge/Best Practice sharing
- Strong team player who is dynamic and result oriented
- Good project management skills and ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Fair understanding on MIS reporting and advanced MS-office skills (Especially on MS-Word, MS-Excel (Macros and VBA coding preferred) and MS-PowerPoint)
- Ability to learn and understand data from various sources
- Pharmaceutical industry domain knowledge – desirable
Work Experience:
- Functional Breadth.
- Accountability.
- Ambiguity.
- Industry/ Business Exposure.
- Project Management.
- Operations Management and Execution.
Skills:
- Business Networking.
- Business Partners.
- Calls Handling.
- Contract Management.
- Curiosity.
- Decision Making Skills.
- Finance.
- Law (Legal System).
- Litigation (Law).
- Microsoft Office.
- Proactivity.
- Quality Control.
Languages :
- English.
Skills Desired
Business Networking, Business Partners, Calls Handling, Contract Management, Curiosity, Decision Making Skills, Finance, Law (Legal System), Litigation Law, Microsoft Office, Proactivity, Quality Control
Top Skills
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
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