Company Description
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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Job Description
Role Overview:
Working closely with the Local Management Team, the role will provide hands-on legal advice focused on business-oriented solutions on a wide range of matters.
As a strategic business partner, the individual will focus on continuously building an effective legal support function addressing the most pressing legal challenges in Turkey and driving/protecting the business in a proactive and creative way.
The individual will also have the opportunity to work on cross border strategic projects with members of the broader Europe Legal team addressing key subjects like AI, competition law and the external environment affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifies complex legal issues; propose alternative solutions.
- Resolves routine and complex legal matters with minimal supervision.
- Be expected to gain solid knowledge of AbbVie’s businesses and knowledge of the broader business impact of decisions made; be expected to keep abreast of changes in laws and represent AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors or government agencies.
- Resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise.
- To the extent that complex problems or specific technical expertise is required, works in cooperation with approved outside counsel/s to define and achieve project objectives.
- Manages outside counsels.
- Be a member of the Management Team and support that team with its priorities
Qualifications
Knowledge & Experiences
- Experience in pharmaceutical law and regulations, commercial law, and contracts,
- Understanding and experience in following areas desirable:
- Administrative Law, incl. pharmaceutical/drug law(s), regulatory, social security insurance/reimbursement laws, public tenders
- National and EU antitrust and competition laws (specifically re. parallel trade, technology transfer, research & development)
- Privacy, labour, and anti-bribery laws
- The individual needs to be highly motivated and enthusiastic with demonstrated initiative, adaptability and integrity, with strong communication skills, a cultural sensitivity to working in a multi-national company and the ability to work effectively in teams.
- Law School degree or equivalent. At least 8-10 years of professional legal expertise, preferably in an international environment, ideally at a law firm and/or multinational pharma company.
- Excellent command of Turkish and English.
Additional Information
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.
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