Global Head IP Transactions

Job Description Summary

Location : Cambridge, MA or East Hanover, NJ USA

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Are you a seasoned IP leader ready to shape the future of pharmaceutical innovation at a global scale? At Novartis, we're seeking a Global Head of IP Transactions to lead high-energy and high-impact patent and IP diligence across more than 100 M&A and BD&L deals annually. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic decisions, collaborate with top-tier legal and business teams, and drive IP excellence for the most transformative medicines in the world. Join us in a role where your expertise will directly support breakthrough therapies and deliver lasting value to patients and society.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities :

• Coordinates, manages, leads, and drives the IP diligence and strategy for transactions (M&A and BD&L), using the support of all enterprise, legal, and IP functions in the analysis of IP issues (patents, trademarks, trade secrets), resulting in proactive, timely, thorough, and comprehensive advice on all relevant issues.
• Ensures clear, well-communicated, and accurate IP advice for all M&A and BD&L deals, recognizing the time-sensitive nature of transactions requires constant attention also during non-standard working hours.
• Develops and drives the IP and regulatory transaction governance framework, establishes appropriate tools and processes, and leads high-visibility, complex global IP transactions projects.
• Advises the Global Head IP and the Global Head Legal Transactions, as well as other senior business leaders, on IP transactions and risk exposure, including strategies for minimizing adverse consequences.
• Builds strong interface with M&A / BD&L colleagues to ensure transactions are supported by IP staff trained and equipped to advise on all IP aspects of transactions and manages external counsel providing diligence information and contract clauses.
• Ensures exchange of information and know-how across the enterprise and provides training, with the goal that in-house and external lawyers take a consistent and proactive approach in effectively dealing with IP transactions, and that stakeholders are advised early and proactively of IP issues impacting the deal business cases.
• Leads the IP Transactions team, ensuring that their services are timely, proactive, targeted, and of high quality.
• Retains and develops key talents within IP, particularly in IP transactions.
• Member of IP Leadership Team (IPLT) and Transactions Legal Leadership Team (TLLT)

Essential Requirements :

Law (JD degree) from an accredited law school,

and admitted to practice in a major commercial jurisdiction / State in the US (e.g., NY, MA or NJ) required.

Novartis Compensation Summary :

The salary for this position is expected to range between $236,600.00 and $439,400.00 USD per year.

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.

US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

EEO Statement :

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodations

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Salary Range

$236,600.00 - $439,400.00

Skills Desired

Analytical Thinking, Budget Management, Business Process, Collaboration, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Efficiency, Influencing Skills, Intellectual Property (Ip), Intellectual Property Strategy, Law (Legal System), Multitasking Skills, Organization Skills, Patent Prosecution, Patents, Productivity, Professionalism, Results-Oriented, Strategic Management, Strategic Thinking, Talent Development, Team Management, Team Player