**Summary**:
- To provide effective legal counsel to assigned business functions or teams within a country / BF/BU or Corporate function, acting as a legal advisor and business partner, negotiating contracts, managing litigation and providing counselling on substantive area legal issues. To act independently in complex legal matters and transactions; for example Licensing and Divestment.
**About the Role**:
**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 disputes and litigation and/or investigations.
- Manage relationships and monitors the work of outside counsel and legal experts.
- Manage and support activities regarding compliance issues, such as anti-trust and regulatory.
- Partner and liaise with external local counsels.
- Participate in the development, recommendation and implementation of legal policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
**Key performance indicators**:
- Case assessment quality combined with budgeting for own cases -Quality of reporting and communication -Impact on and perception of the overall status of the Practice (pulse check)
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Work Experience**:
- Minimum 5 years of experience.
- Pharma experience
**Contracting experience for**:
- Research Collaboration Agreements
- Clinical Trial Agreements
- Consultancy Agreements
- Authorship
- Procurement
- Vendors
**Skills**:
- Business Networking.
- Business Partners.
- Calls Handling.
- Contract Management.
- Curiosity.
- Decision Making Skills.
- Law (Legal System).
- Microsoft Office.
- Proactivity.
- Quality Control.
**Languages**:
- English.
Division
Operations
Business Unit
CTS
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Functional Area
Legal & Intellectual Property & Compl.
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
