We are seeking a seasoned legal professional to join our HQ team at Zentiva. This role is pivotal in supporting the Group’s strategic growth through multijurisdictional acquisitions, integrations, and corporate structuring. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior management, helping to navigate complex legal landscapes and mitigate risks that could impact Zentiva’s operations and ambitions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and manage legal aspects of cross-border M&A transactions, including due diligence, structuring, negotiation, and execution.
Provide end-to-end legal support through closing and post-deal integration, ensuring corporate governance integration, alignment with Zentiva’s strategic objectives and compliance across jurisdictions. Provide expert legal counsel to senior management and coordinate support from external legal advisors.
Draft, review, and negotiate complex transaction documents and represent the company in dealings with authorities.
Develop and implement internal policies and group regulations; deliver training to internal stakeholders.
Offer strategic legal advice across various business areas, including development, manufacturing, and supply of medicines.
Address additional legal matters based on capacity and expertise.
Qualifications & Experience:
Master’s degree in Law (Czech, Slovak or other relevant law).
Experience with Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) – minimum 7 years (Bar exams as advantage).
Experience of working in or for the pharmaceutical sector as a significant advantage.
Fluent in English
Critical Competencies for Success:
Excellent leadership and organization skills to deliver on a range of projects, often with competing priorities.
Proven skills in communication and management of customer expectations.
Capacity to navigate in a complex environment of project management, process owners, users’ expectations, and under financial challenges and competing priorities.
Strategic thinker, capable of translating legal technical items into management understandable terms.
Proactive, takes the initiative to make things happen
Strategic as well as pragmatic, with an ability to generate trust and build alliances across business/progress lines, functional lines, and within own organization.
What We Do
Zentiva is a Pan-European Platform developing, manufacturing and providing high-quality and affordable medicines to more than 100 million people in Europe. Zentiva has 4 wholly owned manufacturing sites and a broad network of external manufacturing partners to ensure supply security. We offer solutions in key therapeutical areas like Cardiology & Circulation, Diabetes, Oncology, Respiratory, CNS and focus on expanding our portfolio in self-care. The company is Private Equity owned, delivering sustainable double-digit growth, with an ambitious 5-year plan for further strong (organic and inorganic) growth across Europe.
We are a team of almost 5,000 unique talents bonded together by our mission to deliver high-quality and affordable medicines to people who depend on them every day. We want Zentiva to be a great place to work, where everyone feels welcomed and appreciated and can be their true selves contributing to the best of their ability.
