Job Description Summary
Provide global legal support for People & Organization (P&O) and Trade Sanctions topics by delivering attorney-quality, structured and defensible legal analysis and translating it into clear, actionable business decisions.The role further encompasses, external counsel governance, represents Global Legal and Compliance in GCC Hyderabad, and contributes to building a strong Legal & Compliance capability in the Hyderabad GCC.
Job Description
Position Purpose:
At Sandoz, Legal & Compliance enables our global teams to act with integrity while delivering access to high-quality medicines worldwide. In this role, you will provide global legal support for People & Organization (P&O) legal topics and support Trade Sanctions Legal, while helping to build a strong Legal & Compliance capability in the Hyderabad GCC.
You will translate complex legal questions into clear, pragmatic and defensible business decisions and contribute to a scalable, audit-ready legal operating model. This is a global role with broad exposure across legal topics and stakeholders, combining legal expertise, business partnering and operational discipline to support a scalable Legal & Compliance model.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Provide global P&O Legal support, including legal triage, support on reorganizations, disputes, disciplinaries and separation documentation, as well as management of external counsel.
- Support Trade Sanctions Legal through structured case support (research, file building, evidence packs and internal drafting) and monitoring support in coordination with global sanctions owners.
- Draft high-quality legal opinions using structured reasoning (issues → rules → interpretation → application → conclusion), including counterarguments and risk-based options.
- Translate legal analysis into decision-ready business guidance (options, risks, mitigations, recommendations) enabling fast and defensible decisions.
- Manage India external counsel engagements, including scope definition, instruction letters, budget discipline, deliverable review and matter tracking.
- Build and maintain playbooks, templates and standards to ensure consistency, scalability and audit readiness.
- Act as a coordination point for Hyderabad Legal & Compliance topics and route matters to the appropriate global functional owners. Collaborate across functions, geographies and time zones to ensure aligned, high-quality and compliant outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement by converting recurring issues into standardized approaches, guidance and training.
- Key Success Factors: Strong legal reasoning and interpretation skills with the ability to deliver structured, defensible conclusions. Ability to translate complex legal topics into clear and actionable business guidance. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across geographies. High level of ownership, pragmatism and execution discipline.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in law (LLB or equivalent) from a recognized university; LLM preferred.
Qualified lawyer with Bar Exam cleared and active license to practice in at least one jurisdiction (mandatory)
Minimum 10+ years of post-qualification experience in legal roles, ideally combining: In-house legal experience within a multinational organization and/or Experience with a top-tier law firm.
Demonstrated global / multi-country legal experience supporting stakeholders across regions, with strong exposure to cross-border legal and compliance frameworks
Experience in compliance / regulatory areas, such as Trade Sanctions, investigations, or related domains, including legal research, analysis, and case support
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across: Business leaders, HR / People & Organization (P&O) teams, Global Legal and Compliance colleagues.
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
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.
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, TaxSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in law (LLB or equivalent) from a recognized university
- LLM degree
- Qualified lawyer with Bar Exam cleared and active license to practice in at least one jurisdiction
- Minimum 10+ years of post-qualification legal experience
- Global or multi-country legal experience supporting stakeholders across regions
- Experience with cross-border legal and compliance frameworks
- Experience in compliance or regulatory areas such as Trade Sanctions or investigations
- Legal research, analysis, and case support experience
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with business leaders, HR or P&O teams, and global Legal and Compliance colleagues
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
