Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

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.

The Corporate Counsel position supports IMCO (International Marketing Commercial Operations) and IMAP (International Market Access and Pricing) by providing legal counsel and strategic advice on healthcare-related legal issues, including advertising, promotion, antitrust, market access, pricing, reimbursement, healthcare fraud, abuse, and anti-bribery, for both on-market and pipeline products. The primary focus is on international strategic priorities, and this role reports directly to the Senior Counsel for IMCO and IMAP.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as the strategic and legal lead counsel for pharmaceutical brands and provide in-depth substantive advice to the 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' 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 internationally.
• Act as a subject matter expert on assigned therapeutic areas, brands, and projects for international affiliates' legal teams and educate, inform, or guide the team as appropriate, while staying connected across the organization.
• Keep abreast of changes in laws and develop knowledge of AbbVie's business and supported client areas, as well as the market access environment of AbbVie's international key markets.
• Where key strategic or unanticipated issues arise impacting more than one affiliate, lead the coordination across affiliates and other attorneys to successfully resolve them.
• 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.
• To the extent that complex problems or specific technical expertise are required, select and direct the work of outside counsel, define project objectives, and manage the project and budget.
• Work cross-functionally and find solutions for business clients consistent with the law, policies/procedures, and AbbVie's Code of Conduct.

Qualifications:

• J.D. required (United States) or Law degree from a relevant jurisdiction
• Fluency in English
• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience (previous pharma experience and 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

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.