Legal Counsel
1 week ago
Description
Gilead Sciences Ltd. is seeking a Legal Counsel, Associate Director Legal and Business Conduct (BC), to join the Legal team within the Australia and New Zealand commercial affiliate for a period of 12 months on a fixed term basis, and based in Melbourne, as well as to be part of the ACE Legal and Compliance team in Australia, Canada and Europe Region. Currently, the ANZ affiliate supports Gilead's virology business including HIV and liver diseases and oncology business including the Gilead Kite CAR T portfolio and solid tumour products.
A legal career at Gilead couples cutting-edge science with precision problem solving that accompanies working in a fast‐paced, innovative business environment. Gilead lawyers have a seat at the table. We provide counsel to business leaders and influence decisions as they happen. This is an exciting role with high visibility throughout the business. You will directly engage with the cross functional team and have strategic input to the business units. The aim is to partner with the business to reach its' commercial gaols, whilst maintaining and enhancing the company's licence to operate.
The role reports to the Head of Lead and Business Conduct ANZ and is part of a team managing a high volume of legal, compliance and business advisory support on a range of issues often with tight deadlines. It will require a responsive, passionate, and self-driven, hands-on and approach.
Job duties
You will be a key part of the Legal & BC team to ensure comprehensive support for the Affiliate's Business Units, Market Access team, Commercial Operations, and functional departments on all legal and business conduct matters. It requires an analytical approach, strong attention to detail, excellent drafting, negotiation, communication skills and out of the box thinking.
You will give substantive legal advice to one or more of Gilead's Business Units and cross functional teams supporting the activities of the Business Units on sales and marketing strategies, medical educational activities, public affairs, patient group and community activities as well as policy and government affairs initiatives.
This role will also focus on supporting the compliance program for the ANZ affiliate, providing tools and guidance to the Business Units about Gilead's Business Conduct Manual, the Medicines Australia Code of Practice, competition and consumer law, and anti-bribery.
The role requires advising on ANZ legal topics in the international context, especially with respect to questions or inquiries from colleagues in global headquarter in Foster City, USA and ACE headquarters in Stockley Park, UK. In addition you will have the opportunity to work with the regional and global Legal teams to develop Gilead wide responses to areas of wider legal and compliance importance.
Legal Responsibilities
Provide strategic legal advice and operational support for the ANZ affiliate in relation to:
Planning and implementation of product promotion and launch, including supporting market access strategy. Provide legal support in areas as determined by the needs of the organisation. Supporting a self-service contract platform for use by the Business Units and functions and contract negotiation in relation to high risk and complex agreements. Regulation and reimbursement of medicines including the and the Together with global specialist support teams, advising on competition law and anti-bribery anti-corruption processes. Design, development, and delivery of legal training programs.Business Conduct Responsibilities
Provide strategic business conduct operational support in relation to:
Collaborating with the ANZ team to implement Business Conduct practices within the ANZ affiliate and to ensure a high degree of alignment and consistency. Collaborating with Business Conduct teams across Gilead on policy, practices, and training. Ensuring that the ANZ affiliate understand the why behind Gilead's business conduct requirements and the areas of potential risk. Advice on points of interpretation for business conduct requirements and required internal approval processes. Participate in the approval of high-risk activities and promotional materials for the ANZ affiliate associated with Gilead's interactions with HCPs, community and decision makers, including sales, marketing, medical education, community and payer interactions. Supports periodic Business Conduct audits and ongoing monitoring of compliance of events and materials.Knowledge and Skills
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated pro-active self-starter with a high dedication and natural interest to legal topics in life-science industry who:
is a strong team-player and collaborates locally and across the regional and global Legal & BC function. has excellent analytical, problem solving, written and verbal communication skills. has a strong client service orientation and ability to recognize and respond quickly and pragmatically to urgent, complex situations and demanding client business partners. can demonstrate the ability to simplify systems and processes. can work cross-functionally and cross-culturally and foster and maintain relationships through all levels of the organisation. can proactively set priorities in a high workload setting and cooperate with the ANZ Legal & Business Conduct team on team prioritisation. has an understanding of the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct. is comfortable with operational compliance responsibilities including reviewing and approving meetings, events and materials.Personal Competencies/ Behaviours
We are looking for a lawyer who brings diversity of thought and experience to Gilead. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of our patients. In this culture we believe all people will do their best work. The ANZ Legal BC team is a true team that provides development and support to its members, values diversity and feedback, and respects healthy work life balance.
Gilead is committed to its core values of Integrity, inclusion, teamwork, excellence and accountability. We expect all of our team to live our leadership commitments:
I AM BOLD in aspiration and AGILE in execution. I CARE and make time for people. I LISTEN, speak openly and explain the "why." I TRUST others and myself to make sound decisions. I OWN the impact of my words and actions.Required Education & Experience
Fully qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in Australia. Over 6 years of legal experience. Experience in pharmaceuticals, biotech or other highly regulated industries .Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus worldwide include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer, cell therapy and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
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