Position Purpose
At 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 solid 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. 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.

Your Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- 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,

📌 Global Legal Counsel (Telangana)
🏢 Sandoz India
📍 Telangana