Job Description Summary
Location: Barcelona, Spain, Ljubljana, Slovenia, or Czech Republic Prague#LI-Hybrid
***Closing date for applications 2 weeks from posting date
"We’re a team of dedicated and smart people united by a drive to achieve together"
Are you ready to shape the future of legal operations across Europe?
Novartis is seeking a dynamic leader to head our Legal Operations team for Europe. In this pivotal role, you’ll set the strategic direction, inspire and manage a talented team of professionals, and play an active part in our operational success.
As a key member of the Operations Legal Leadership Team, you’ll collaborate across functions, drive impactful initiatives, and help ensure our legal operations deliver excellence throughout the region.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the Europe Operations Legal team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
- Oversee legal support for European manufacturing plants, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
- Supervise legal activities related to the Prague-based service centre, providing guidance and oversight as required.
- Serve as a key contact for stakeholders across the European Technical Operations area, covering both small and large molecule operations.
- Facilitate effective collaboration with other legal teams, including Operations Transactions, REFFs, and International Legal, to ensure seamless cross-functional cooperation.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Extensive post-law qualification experience, ideally with time served working in a regulated pharmaceutical industry environment.
- Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations within the EU
- Hands-on experience with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) principles, gained through experience in a pharma-relevant environment
- Solid background in contract law and general contract management
- Basic understanding of labor law
- Experience supporting procurement processes and organizing related activities
Desirable
- Proven ability to handle litigation and contract disputes
- Exposure to business development transactions and complex contracting, ideally including competition law
- Real estate legal experience (buy/sell, maintenance, construction)
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Skills Desired
Business Partners, Customer Service, Diversity And Inclusion, Employee Recruitment, Human Resources (HR), Human Resources Management, Law (Legal System), Leadership, Legal Advice, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Microsoft Office, Negotiation Skills, Property Law, Senior ManagementTop 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.
