Executive Assistant, North America; NA) Strategy & Growth and Legal

Job Description Summary

Provide dedicated executive support to the SVP, North America Strategy & Growth and the SVP, North America General Counsel, two senior leaders with distinct priorities, stakeholder needs, and confidentiality requirements. This high-visibility role requires exceptional judgment, discretion, prioritization, and follow-through. The Executive Assistant serves as a trusted partner to both leaders while providing targeted coordination support for North America Communications priorities and ensuring seamless execution of strategic, legal, and communications-related activities.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage complex calendars, meeting prioritization, travel logistics, and day-to-day executive support for the SVP, Strategy & Growth and the SVP, North America General Counsel.

• Serve as a trusted point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, exercising sound judgment regarding urgency, confidentiality, and escalation.
• Support leadership meetings, executive forums, off-sites, and other business-critical engagements.

• Support time-sensitive legal and compliance processes where accuracy, responsiveness, and discretion are essential.

• Support Strategy & Growth operations, including leadership team meetings, strategic planning cycles, executive reviews, off-sites, and cross-functional initiatives.

• Partner with other administrative professionals, including the Executive Assistant to the President, North America, to support leadership team priorities and enterprise initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance efficiency, and strengthen collaboration across functions.
• Represent Sandoz's culture, values, and professional standards in all interactions with internal and external stakeholders.

This position will be located at the Princeton, NJ US Headquarters site.

Our Sandoz flexible hybrid working approach allows US office-based employees to work up to 50% of their monthly workday remotely. This role will not have the ability to be located remotely. Preference will be given to local candidates not requiring relocation.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available for this role now or in the future.

• Executive support experience: 5+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting senior or executive-level leaders; experience supporting multiple senior stakeholders, or working within a legal, compliance, or highly regulated environment, strongly preferred.
• Proactive problem-solving:
  Ability to anticipate needs, resolve issues independently where appropriate, and bring structure to fast-moving priorities with limited direction.
• Judgment and discretion:
  Proven judgment handling confidential, legally sensitive, commercially sensitive, or need-to-know information with maturity and care, including professionalism under pressure in ambiguous or time-sensitive situations.

• Prioritization and follow-through:
  Strong planning, prioritization, and follow-through skills, with the ability to keep multiple senior leaders’ priorities moving in parallel.
• Tools and systems:
  Proficiency with standard executive productivity tools, including Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, calendar and email platforms, expense and travel systems;
  SharePoint experience a plus.

Breakdown of benefits received in this role. Include flexible working, learning and development opportunities as well.

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more, so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of access to good healthcare.

With investments in new development capabilities,…