Corporate Counsel, Legal Global Brands - AbbVie

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

This Corporate Counsel position is responsible for advising on a variety of Global (ex-US) healthcare-related legal issues pertaining to brand and market access strategies, with a primary focus on laws, regulations and codes of ethics related to advertising and promotion, antitrust, healthcare fraud & abuse and anti-bribery.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as strategic and legal lead counsel for immunology pharmaceutical brands, and provide in-depth substantive advice to Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access and Regulatory Affairs departments concerning a broad range of legal, regulatory and compliance issues. 
• Provide clear advice to business clients and senior legal management on core International and key markets’ national laws and regulations focusing on areas of promotion, patient support, payer access, go-to-market strategies, labeling, and scientific exchange.
• Identify and anticipate risks and opportunities and devise appropriate business-oriented solutions to maximize market access and brand strategies outside of the US
• Act as subject matter expert on assigned brands and projects vis-a-vis the International Area and Affiliate legal teams and educate, inform or guide the team as appropriate, whilst equally staying connected with US brand Legal to provide consistent counsel across the organization.
• Develop knowledge of AbbVie’s business and supported client areas, as well as the market access environment of AbbVie’s global key markets. Keep abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas.
• Resolve routine to highly complex legal matters in practice areas without supervision using negotiation skills and legal expertise; guide and coordinate legal support to affiliate lawyers where required on assigned projects. Execute core job responsibilities in a timely manner.
• Identify complex to highly complex legal issues related to assigned significant strategic matters; propose solutions and align on business and legal high risk matters with maturity to challenge, enable, or escalate as needed.
• Manage, coach and oversee one direct report
• To the extent that complex problems or specific technical expertise is required, select and direct the work of outside counsel, define project objectives, manage project and budget. 
• Work cross-functionally and find solutions for business clients consistent with the law, policies/procedures, and AbbVie’s Code of Conduct.

• J.D. required (United States) or Law degree from a relevant jurisdiction
• Fluency in English
• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience (previous pharma experience & exposure to international or major markets outside of the US strongly preferred)
• Experience with country-specific or international Market Access/Managed Health Care matters is desirable
• Experience in supporting senior business leaders
• Excellent communication and influencing skills as well as a strong sense of agility, independent decision-making, and integrity, with proven ability to work effectively in diverse and cross-border teams.
• Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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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