What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements: • Law school graduate (common or civil law), common law preferred plus at least a first degree in a life-sciences subject.
• Patent attorney qualification required, or significant legal practice in the IP field.
• Proficiency in English; knowledge other European languages is an asset; must be able to draft complex legal documents and negotiate in English.
• Extensive experience in patent drafting, prosecution, FTO opinions, and litigation, or extensive experience as a life-sciences IP lawyer handling FTO opinions and IP litigation.
• Sound understanding of regulatory exclusivities in major pharmaceutical markets.
• Significant experience executing complex licensing and collaboration, plus public and private merger and acquisition transactions (both buy-side and sell side), with focus on all aspects of IP and regulatory exclusivity and freedom to operate assessments.
• Good experience managing and leading IP transaction teams and processes, and managing stakeholder interests in a corporate environment.
• Ability to understand complex new technologies (e.g. gene therapy, digital), and to apply IP experience thereto, would be an advantage.
• Good basic understanding of related disciplines: Regulatory, Antitrust, Corporate, Tax.
Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefitshttps://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits--rewardsrewards
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