Assoc Director, Legal Portugal & Spain

Gilead Sciences; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global healthcare company is seeking a Senior Counsel to manage legal and compliance support for its Spanish and Portuguese operations. The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified lawyer with expertise in Portuguese law and fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Responsibilities include providing legal advice, leading compliance programs, and ensuring collaboration between the teams in Portugal and Spain. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic, mission-driven environment.

Formación

• Extensive legal experience in pharmaceutical or regulated industries preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Portuguese law and regulatory environment.
• Experience in negotiation, drafting, and reviewing agreements.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure collaboration between Portugal and Spain on legal issues.
• Provide legal advice to Gilead’s Business Units.
• Lead compliance program in Portugal and provide guidance.

Conocimientos

Fluency in Portuguese

Fluency in Spanish

Fluency in English

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Strong client service orientation

Educación

Fully qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Portugal

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Job Description

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Counsel (Associate Director Legal & Compliance) to join the Legal team within the Spanish & Portuguese affiliate. The position is based either in Madrid or in Lisbon (in which case, regular travel to Madrid (approximately every two weeks for two days) will be required). The successful candidate must be a fully qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Portugal, with strong expertise in Portuguese law and fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

The role reports to the Head of Lead and Compliance (Associate General Counsel / Senior Director Legal & Compliance) and is part of a team managing a high volume of legal and compliance support on a range of issues often with tight deadlines. It will require a responsive and self-driven, hands-on mentality and approach. The team also is composed by two legal Directors and one compliance specialist to manage our healthcare compliance programs, including process development, compliance monitoring and transparency obligations.

Job duties

As a key member of the Spain and Portugal Legal & Compliance team, you will ensure seamless collaboration between Portugal and Spain, supporting internal clients and cross functional teams. If based in Lisbon, this includes regular travel to Madrid to attend key meetings and coordinate cross-functional projects.

You will give substantive legal advice to one or more of Gilead’s Business Units and cross functional teams supporting the activities of the Business Units on sales and marketing strategies, medical educational activities, public affairs, patient group and community activities as well as policy and government affairs initiatives. As such, this job requires an analytical approach, strong attention to detail, excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills.

This role also has a focus on leading the compliance program in Portugal, providing tools and guidance to the Business Units about Gilead’s Business Conduct Manual, the Apifarma Code of Practice, competition and consumer law, and antibribery. The role requires advising on Portuguese legal topics. In addition, you will have the opportunity to work with the regional and global Legal teams to develop Gilead wide responses to areas of wider legal and compliance importance.

Legal Responsibilities :

• Lead on strategic legal advice on Portuguese law and operational support for one or more of Gilead Business Units and other functions in the Spanish & Portuguese affiliate in relation to :
• Identify and spot all legal and business issues in Gilead’s day-to-day activities.
• Appropriately analyze the issues, becoming the go-to person and effectively contributing to legal and cross-functional projects.
• Assist the business unit in the planning and implementation of product promotion and launch, including supporting market access strategy.
• Lead in your legal areas of specialisation as well as in new areas as required by the team.
• Negotiate, draft and review all kind of agreements, as required by the Business Units, including drafting templates and keeping up to date the contacting template platform.
• Be or become an expert in the pharma regulation, including particularities of reimbursement of medicines.
• Together with global specialist support teams, advise on competition law and anti-bribery and anti-corruption processes.
• Design, development, and deliver legal training programs.

Compliance Responsibilities

• Provide strategic compliance operational support in relation to :
• Lead the correct implementation of the new ABAC Framework published in Portugal.
• Collaborate with compliance teams across Gilead on policy, practices, and training.
• Ensure that the Spanish & Portuguese affiliate understand the why behind Gilead’s compliance requirements and the areas of potential risk.
• Advice on points of interpretation for compliance requirements and required internal approval processes.
• Supports periodic compliance audits and ongoing monitoring of compliance of events and materials.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong team-player and collaborates locally and across the regional and global Legal & Compliance function.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong client service orientation and ability to recognize and respond quickly and pragmatically to urgent, complex situations and demanding client business partners.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and cross-culturally and foster and maintain relationships through all levels of the organisation.
• Proactively set priorities in a high workload setting and cooperate with the Spanish & Portuguese Legal & Compliance team on team prioritisation.
• Understanding of the Apifarma Code of Conduct.
• Is comfortable with operational compliance responsibilities including reviewing and approving meetings, events.
• Familiarity with AI tools and their application in legal and compliance processes is a plus.

Required Education & Experience

• Fully qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in Portugal.
• Strong knowledge of Portuguese law and regulatory environment.
• Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English (advanced level).
• Based in Madrid or in Lisbon (in which case, willingness and ability to travel frequently to Madrid).
• AI knowledge and capabilities will be considered a plus.
• Extensive legal experience preferably with a combination of industry and law firm experience.
• Experience in pharmaceuticals, biotech or other highly regulated industries is a plus.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors :

Please apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.