Associate Director – Legal & Compliance

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Providing commercial, practical legal advice in accordance with business priorities

• Support key commercial initiatives including business development and new product initiatives

• Drafting and/or reviewing contracts, including potentially largescale business development contracts

• Providing internal legal review as part of organisational medico-legal process for promotional materials according to local laws and our company policies and standards

• Assisting Legal and Compliance Director to identify opportunities and implement strategies to ensure high performing L&C team and efficient partnership other businesses and functions within our organisation

• Identify opportunities to increase operational efficiencies within Legal and compliance, eliminate low value/low risk work

• Providing counsel and support where appropriate, to assist in the implementation of in-country compliance initiatives, controls and measures

• Guide, monitor and assist all activities across businesses that require compliance and legal input, and to ensure all corporate, regional and local compliance objectives and goals of India are met

• Provide sound, appropriate and timely compliance advice and oversight on all proposals for new or revised initiatives/programs in India and neighboring markets, including but not limited to, patient programs, marketing initiatives, customer centricity projects, business development deals and other business proposals

• Providing counsel and support where appropriate, to assist in the implementation of in-country compliance initiatives, controls and measures

• Providing legal support in regulatory matters

• Monitor changes and developments in the legal and regulatory environment in which our company operates, advise and develop appropriate strategies

• Providing Support on Disputes/Litigation

• Support the initiation, defence, negotiation, settlement and management all litigation, disputes and actions arising from business operations in INDIA, including contractual, IP, adverse event claims, compliance and regulatory challenges, in collaboration/consultation with Director, Legal & Compliance – INDIA, regional legal team and other legal colleagues from headquarters or other divisions as appropriate

• Providing Support on Intellectual Property

• Support global IP attorneys to coordinate local trademark and patent filings and collect and disseminate intellectual property information for local management, as needed;

• Provide advice on local strategies and counteractions in relation to local IP infringement and enforcement actions, in consultation with our company IP attorneys.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in law from accredited law school and admitted to practice law in India.

• Qualified Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India would be an advantage.

• 10 years or more of post-admission experience.

• Additional professional or academic legal qualification would be advantageous.

• To pro-actively identify compliance issues and concerns and consistently apply a high standard of integrity, professionalism, legal knowledge, expertise and business ethics to achieve satisfactory resolution of such issues and concerns.