International Legal Counsel – Pharma

Company

Our client is a major global player in the health care industry, employing more than 115.000 employees. The company has known a steady growth over the last decades, and is generally considered to be one of the world’s most successful organisations and attractive employers. The company centers its legal support to its over 250 operating companies from a Brussels based legal department.

Role

 

The Legal Counsel - Pharma will provide legal support to the company business in some critical emerging markets within the region dealing with a complex and broad variety of issues.

The main focus of the position consists of:

§          Providing legal counsel to the company Pharma business in the Middle East West Asia (MEWA) region, Turkey, Israel and South Africa

§          Legal work : advice, transactions, coordinate dispute resolution, training of non-legal specialists, collaboration with local outside counsel …

§          In a broad range of legal fields: commercial law and contracts, IP and licensing, corporate law, competition law and trade law, state aid, some basic regulatory law work.

 

Generally, a lawyer at the company deals with issues autonomously, and invests in relationships with business clients in the assigned region. He/she pro-actively investigates legal aspects in order to guarantee solid business decisions, and when necessary liaises with law firms on legal issues and co-ordinate litigation issues.

Informal and regular formal reporting briefings are organised within the legal team.

 

Frequent contact with:

• European legal Team
• European Management
• Government affairs

 

The Legal counsel will report into the legal team and collaborate with the colleagues in this team.

A successful candidate will be based in Brussels, prepared to travel within the assigned region in addition to a few trips to the headquarters in the USA.

Profile

Education

- Law degree, obtained with excellent results

- Supplementary degree or LLM abroad will be considered as an asset

Experience

 

Minimum 7 years of experience in legal work.

The 3 major axises in the role are :

·         Providing legal counsel and adding value to the business of the internal clients, in a sophisticated and sizeable organisation

·         Experience in the health care industry (preferably pharmaceutical products)

·         Familiar with doing business and legal work in a non Western culture in the MEWA region

(Middle East, Africa) Israel, Turkey …

A successful candidate will have a relevant experience in at least 2 of the above environments,

acquired in an international law firm and/or legal department of an international

corporation in the healthcare industry (pharmaceutical, medical devices, biotech, cosmetics

or other consumer products)

 

Experience in a US environment is considered as an asset.

Competences

- Intelligent and entrepreneurial spirit

- Strong listening and communication skills

- Excellent negotiating skills

- Business oriented and result driven

- Self starter and a team player

- Able to manage strategic complexities

Languages

- Excellent in written and oral English.

- Other languages are considered as an asset

Contact

For more information, please contact Stefaan DE CLERCQ on the number +32 2 741 87 97. If you may be interested, please send your application letter and your resume to info@addvalue.eu, mentioning the reference 1029 - KTE – SDC International Legal Counsel - Pharma