Legal & Compliance Counsel

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Major accountabilities: 

• Act as a trusted business partner to commercial and functional teams by providing proactive legal and compliance advice, supporting strategic initiatives, and ensuring adherence to applicable laws, regulations, industry codes, and company policies.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and independently manage a broad range of commercial agreements, including distribution, services, consultancy, procurement, confidentiality, marketing, sponsorship, and other business contracts.
• Identify, assess, and advise management on legal, compliance, and reputational risks associated with business activities, and recommend practical risk mitigation measures and solutions.
• Lead and deliver compliance trainings and activities, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption), competition/antitrust law, conflicts of interest, and regulatory compliance matters to internal and external stakeholder.
• Develop, implement, communicate, and monitor legal and compliance policies, procedures, controls, and governance frameworks to promote an ethical culture and compliance mindset.
• Support audits, compliance monitoring activities, risk assessments, and remediation plans to ensure ongoing compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Ensure timely reporting and escalation of technical complaints, adverse events, special situation reports, product quality issues, and other reportable events related to company products in accordance with applicable procedures and timelines.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Legal & Compliance function through process optimization, knowledge sharing, benchmarking, and participation in global and local initiatives.
• Manage and support corporate governance matters, including maintenance of statutory records, preparation, review and ratification of board and shareholder resolutions, support for corporate secretarial requirements, and ensuring compliance with applicable corporate laws, governance standards, and internal frameworks.

• Bachelor’s degree in law. 
• Master’s degree in law (LL.M.) or other relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Admission to the relevant Bar Association or qualification to practice law.
• Up to 5 years of relevant experience in legal and/or compliance roles, preferably within a multinational corporation, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or a leading law firm.
• Strong analytical, communications, problem solving skills.
• Excellent command of Arabic and English
  

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 access to good healthcare.

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.

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