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Job Description

t 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

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.

Skills Desired