Legal Trainee - Legal Procurement, Data/Digital & IT

Legal Trainee – Legal Procurement, Data/Digital & IT

Job ID: REQ-10023143

Oct 10, 2024

Summary

We are offering two 6-month legal trainee positions to support the Novartis Operations Legal department, starting January and June 2025.

About the Role

This legal trainee position offers excellent opportunities to gain first-class, hands-on in-house legal experience within the stimulating, multinational environment of a leading pharmaceutical company.

Duration: 6 months
Start: January 1, 2025 and June 1, 2025

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Support a diverse range of commercial matters relating to direct and indirect procurement, manufacturing, IT.
2. Support diverse range of legal projects, e.g. contract templates, legal trainings, global legal research projects, digitalization, outsourcing, etc.
3. Assist with the drafting, negotiation and review of a variety of transactional, commercial and agreements.
4. Draft legal memoranda on a wide variety of legal issues and disputes, Draft document and key position summaries.
5. Provide legal advice to internal clients.
6. You will be supervised and guided by a range of lawyers on different levels of the company, ensuring a great learning experience.

What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential:

1. Swiss Law degree (Master of Law and Bachelor of Law has to be on Swiss Law), master’s degree needs to be completed before start date.
2. Business-level English skills (written and spoken), additional language is a plus.
3. Interest in legal topics in a large multinational group of companies.
4. High motivation to perform, to discover and learn new things and ability to work independently.

Desirable requirements:

1. Prior legal professional experience in a law firm, court or legal in-house department (internships etc.) would be helpful. We are also open to applicants without prior experience who have a strong interest and are motivated to learn on the job.
2. Other professional experience in the corporate environment is a plus.

Please submit a cover letter that includes your motivation for the position and from when you will be available. Thank you.

Accessibility and accommodation:
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to , and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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