Lead Counsel

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Shapes and drives cluster legal strategy aligned with enterprise priorities, ensuring consistency and scalability across markets.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior business leadership, influencing strategic decisions, market access approaches, and risk appetite.
• Provides commercially grounded, forward-looking strategic legal guidance that enables sound decision-making across highly diverse and complex markets.
• Defines regional risk strategy by proactively identifying, assessing, and managing legal and regulatory risks across multiple jurisdictions
• Represents the cluster in cross-cluster and global legal initiatives, contributing to enterprise-wide frameworks, policies, and ways of working.
• Provides legal support for the implementation of the Global Capability Model (GCM), driving efficiency and operating model evolution
• Leads legal strategy for commercial and manufacturing partnerships, including vaccine commercialization and related supply models
• Navigates diverse legal systems, regulatory environments, and cultural contexts with a global mindset, fostering effective collaboration across Southeastern Asia and India
• Ensures high-quality, business-aligned legal support by balancing cluster consistency with market-specific nuance
• Simplifies complexity and communicates clearly across senior stakeholders, functions, and geographies, enabling confident and timely decision-making
• Leads, develops, and inspires a geographically dispersed team of legal professionals, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and growth-oriented culture
• Drives continuous improvement, leads teams through change with resilience, and strengthens organizational capability across the region
• Contributes to cross-regional and enterprise legal strategy by bringing insights from highly complex and fast-evolving markets

Qualification & Experience

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active legal license in India or another common law jurisdiction. 
• Advanced professional training in pharmaceutical law from a highly regarded law firm. 
• Extensive post-qualification legal experience (typically 10+ years) advising on complex legal issues, including access, regulatory, compliance, litigation and corporate matters within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
• Extensive experience in working in Southeast Asia and India.
• Experience in managing attorneys and legal professionals.