Head of Legal, EM and Baltics

REQ-10057113
Jul 04, 2025
Kazakhstan

Summary

At Novartis, we are reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As Legal Head for Emerging Markets and Baltics, you will be a strategic legal partner to the Country Presidents and leadership teams. You will provide proactive, business-focused legal counsel and drive the implementation of Novartis legal strategy in the following countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia.

About the Role

Role Responsibilities Include:

  • Acts as a member of the Leadership Teams of Baltics and Emerging Markets.
  • Acts as a trusted business partner to senior leadership, providing legal guidance on complex and sensitive matters.
  • Ensures timely and effective legal advise to all the activities in Baltics and Emerging Markets.
  • Leads legal operations in Baltics and Emerging Markets, ensuring compliance with local and global regulations.
  • Contributes to and influences Baltics and Emerging Markets business strategy and decision-making processes.
  • Anticipates and counsels regarding major legal and reputational risks to the business.
  • Manages external lawyers.

Key Requirements for the Role

  • University degree in Law and legal accreditation preferably in Kazakhstan.
  • Minimum 5 years legal experience.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical business is a strong advantage.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership skills.
  • Persuasive negotiator
  • Strong business acumen, learning agility, open-minded, able to work with different cultures and leadership styles.
  • Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Key performance indicators:

  • Provide problem solving, business oriented legal advice; to be assessed with appropriate customer feedback.
  • Compliance with reporting obligations.
  • Setting priorities and managing a wide-ranging workload.

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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International
Innovative Medicines
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Legal & Intellectual Property & Compl.
Full time
Regular
No

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REQ-10057113

Head of Legal, EM and Baltics

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