Senior Legal Director - Pharmaceuticals

Role Accountabilities:

• Lead and oversee the legal affairs for affiliates in Mature Markets
• Embed Compliance Culture across all Regions of the business
• Ensure Legal Function(s) strictly adopt a culture of ethics and compliance; leading by example and appropriately challenging non-compliance.
• Ensure adherence to company policies relating to Ethics and Compliance standards and interactions with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), Healthcare Organisations (HCOs) and Patient Organisations (POs).
• Define legal support strategy for Mature Markets in coordination with Executive Director, Affiliate Support.
• Budget responsibility for legal affairs for Mature Markets
• In time, oversee, hires and develop team of in-country affiliate leads
• Provide strategy, leadership, oversight and coordination of all general commercial legal matter
• Effective leadership in identifying, preventing, minimizing, mitigating and/or resolving affiliate legal risks
• Assist and advise senior management on legal and compliance risks
• Crisis management
• Distribution, Licensing & Local Manufacturing Agreements and other necessary contractual support
• Prevention and resolving of disputes, managing of commercial litigation
• Pricing & market access incl. health technology assessments
• Product launches and life-cycle management support
• Supply chain and tender management support
• Setting up of new entities
• Export Control and Sanction
• Ensure timely reporting of legal matters to regional senior management and business clients
• Collaborate closely with other specialist legal functions
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership and boards of directors/governance committees of supported entitie
• Lead and support strategic projects (EMEA and Global
• Dotted line to new global Legal Head of Litigation and Investigation, supporting local litigation and investigations in the EMEA region
• Work closely with other legal cluster and affiliate lead
• Work closely with Ethics & Compliance tea
• Manage outside counsel effectively and efficiently

Required Experience:

• Law degre
• Qualified lawyer with significant post qualified experienc
• Proven track record of handling of general commercial matters within a pharmaceutical compan
• Knowledge and understanding of key business, legal and compliance issues within pharma and life science industry including emerging market
• Experience in Licensing, Supply and Distributio
• Experience in leading multi-functional, cross-cultural team
• Experience in setting up affiliate
• Proven leadership and people management experience including commitment to develop, coach and enable high performance standards
• Proven ability to influence diverse senior stakeholders
• Fluent in written and verbal business Englis
• Track-record of leading multi-year strategic planning process: strategic, organizational and problem-solving history to deliver sustained results
• Proven healthcare compliance expertise; to understand and comply with industry laws and regulations
• Strong experience and knowledge of best practices in the pharmaceutical industry
• Experience in presenting to senior and executive management

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