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Closing date for applications: Monday 30th June 2025
Are you a skilled legal leader ready to shape the future of healthcare?
Novartis is looking for a UK Country Legal Head to guide our business through the complex legal landscape for medicines while inspiring and leading our exceptional legal team. In this critical role, you’ll drive strategy across legal matters—from commercial support and market access to intellectual property and litigation—collaborating with our UK Leadership Team to unlock business opportunities and mitigate risks. With a chance to make an impact both internally and externally, including shaping the UK healthcare environment, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and passion.
Join us and help reimagine medicine for millions!
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the Legal team in UK, and the Legal Head in Ireland, managing and overseeing the development of the team members.
• Develop and implement the legal strategy within International UK and Ireland and contribute to the development of the organization’s business strategy.
• Drive the delivery of legal support in alignment with the priorities of the local and international Novartis business.
• Provide legal leadership on issues by providing pro-active, in-depth, business focused advice and counsel.
• Counsel senior executives and business teams on complex and sensitive legal and business issues, interact with other functions within Novartis to support training and counsel non-Legal associates, and lead or contribute to both formal and informal teams in provision of legal expertise.
• Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws relevant to own substantive area to provide strategic advice and foster compliance.
• Limit country litigation risk exposure, including risk derived from clinical issues, working closely with executives across Country, Regional, and Global units.
• Managing the legal budget and instruct external legal counsel, where needed.
• Act as Country Legal Head and be part of the UK Leadership Team, as well as the European Legal Leadership Team.
Essential Requirements:
• Qualified to practice law in the UK
• Significant post qualification experience with a proven track record, preferably in-house and, within the pharmaceutical industry
• Strong people management experience - a proven record of developing legal talent.
• Significant expertise of navigating the legal framework governing the pharmaceutical industry, including market access and regulatory regimes.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects and collaborate within and across cross-functional teams and business units, in a matrixed environment
• Strong business acumen
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken)
Desirable Requirements
• Experience or training at a top law firm as well as having worked with or in different countries is a plus
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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? http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
