Senior Legal Counsel

AbbVie Inc; Maidenhead; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok.

Job Description

Senior Legal Counsel

• Reporting to Legal Director, UK and Ireland
• Based in Maidenhead, UK offices (hybrid working)
• Excellent progression opportunities, with comprehensive benefits and bonus package

Job Overview

Working closely with the Legal Director, the role will provide hands-on legal advice focused on business-oriented solutions on a wide range of matters.

As a strategic business partner, the individual will focus on continuously building an effective legal support function addressing the most pressing legal challenges in the UK and Ireland and driving/protecting the business in a proactive and creative way.

The individual will also have the opportunity to work on cross border strategic projects with members of the broader Europe Legal team addressing key subjects like AI, competition law and the external environment affecting the pharmaceutical industry.

The core work will include the following elements:

• Provision of legal advice and strategic legal thinking focused on business-oriented solutions on a wide range of areas (legal market access issues, medicines tendering, competition law, procurement law, pharmaceutical law/advertising, commercial law and general risk management e.g., ABPI/IPHA Code compliance, ABAC)
• The role will require the negotiation and preparation of an extensive range of agreements and, in some cases, negotiations with payors. The individual will work in a key brand team and on the issues which relate to the launch of new products
• Represent AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, government agencies and industry associations
• The individual will be encouraged to proactively anticipate legal issues given business strategies and the external environment
• The individual will need to resolve legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise
• Monitor changes in laws and the external environment that affect relevant areas of business
• Train the business on key legal developments and develop practical checklists and working tools for the business to facilitate their work
• With the Legal Director, to the extent that complex problems or specific technical expertise is required, select and direct the work of outside counsel
• Continuously develop a solid knowledge of AbbVie´s business and organization and knowledge of the broader business impact of decisions made

Qualifications

Experience:

• Law school degree. Qualification in England & Wales or Ireland an advantage.
• Professional legal expertise, preferably in an international environment, ideally at a law firm and/or multinational company.

Competences and Skills:

• Highly motivated, flexible, independent with capability to take initiative.
• Strong integrity, and strong communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload with outside counsel where needed.
• Solution-oriented, with ability to proactively identify solutions to complex legal and business challenges.
• Work independently but with supervision where required.
• Cultural sensitivity to working in a multinational company and the ability to work effectively in cross functional teams.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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