Legal Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently manage and perform complex administrative and organizational tasks to ensure continuity of higher-level administrative processes.
• Legal support for low to medium-level complexity legal activities, including contracting, M&A and divestment transactions.
• Identifying legal, financial and business contract issues; contract management; legal research; responding to contract requests; client counseling on contract issues and company policies; Responsible for knowledge management, cost and records management.
• Generating, negotiating and finalizing contracts using Novartis approved templates.
• Board Resolutions, Maintaining Officers List, Corporate Filings, support M&A, Taxes and BDL functions, POA, and insolvency matters.
• Projects, Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestment/Divestitures, SOX, Data Privacy, Litigation.
• Providing input and updates to SMEs for the litigation and monthly reconciliation reports; calendar due dates; document management; document review; responding to discovery requests and review and support document production; conducting interviews; conducting research.
• Compiling key custodian lists. Preparing and administering document preservation notices (DPN) including custodian inquiries.
• Reporting technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt
• Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Essential Requirements:

• Law degree graduated or equivalent
• Good contract management experience
• Experienced dealing with complexity
• Worked in a global environment
• Strong Project Management and Operations Management and Execution skills
• Excellent communications skills in English written and verbal
• Digital and Technology Savvy
• A customer service mindset

Nice to have:

• Experience in the pharma industry

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:

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