Internship Legal Corporate - all genders

Job title: Internship – Legal Corporate - all genders

• Internship: 6 months

• Start date: asap

• Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine

About the job

At Opella we have one mission “Health in Your Hands’ as we work passionately, every day, together with and to empower people to champion better self-care for themselves, their communities and our planet, as we all have a part to play. Health, it’s in our hands.

In order to do so, we strive to act as a force for good, integrating sustainability to our business, operating responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

Everything we do is centered around people’s interests – our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees – across the world.

We are building loved brands that serve 1bn consumers worldwide, through our key platforms: Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Wellness, Cough, Cold & Flu.

We aspire to become the Best Fast Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) company In & For the world and we aim to build a work environment where people can thrive, grow, enjoy and be at their best.

Our Team:

In Opella LEBI&CSI we deliver added value as trusted partners to the CHC business, enabling its sustainable growth, caring about our consumers and people while protecting Sanofi’s independence.  We are a “Feel Good Team”, of Legal, Ethics, Privacy and Security professionals that find a convivial place to perform with excellence, flourish and have fun in our journey to become the Best LEBI&CSI team In and For the World.

We do so by delivering qualitative and timely legal and compliance advice, optimizing processes and resources, spotting trends and shaping the external environment, leveraging on LEBI’s CHC team capabilities and sharing accountability with the business for successes and failures. Embracing these principles is key to succeed in the position.

Role modelling Thoughtful Risk Taking approach to matters brought to your attention.

Main responsibilities:

·Company Law database (database gathering key information on Opella affiliates – 64 legal entities in 43 countries): contribute to the roll-out of our new company law database (i) review data, test issuance/reliability of standard reports and legal organization charts, liaise with internal lawyers and our service provider to ensure reliability of information and reporting, and (ii) contribute to training on the database.  

·Delegations of signature and powers : for French legal entities (i) review and redraft standard powers and delegation templates, in the context of the revisit of opella delegation policy (ii) audit our delegation sharepoint used for the production and storage of delegations and (iii) contribute to the revisit of the process for issuance and internal “publication” of delegations.

·Legal support for any corporate matters (French and foreign affiliates): support the Legal corporate teams in any company law operation: review, draft and get signed corporate documentation (powers of attorney, minutes in relation to approval of accounts, payment of dividends, and generally any documentation in relation to creation/dissolution of legal entity, contribution of business, mergers, demergers… etc).

About you

·Soft skills:

• Rigorous and organized

• Show team spirit

• Proactive and “solution-driven”

• Show discretion and comply with confidentiality rules

·Technical skills: strong IT skills

·Languages: French and fluent in English

·Education: Master I Master II in French law (business/corporate law)

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN videoand check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!