You provide legal guidance across operations, ensuring compliance and quality while collaborating with teams globally. Your role includes contract management and developing innovative legal solutions to adapt to changing regulations.
Anforderungen
- •Fully qualified lawyer, ideally with LL.M/MBA
- •Long-term relevant legal experience in pharmaceutical
- •Broad experience in international contract law
- •Ability to monitor and manage projects
- •Business partner-oriented, analytical mindset
- •Excellent team player with strong interpersonal skills
- •Excellent communication skills in English
Deine Aufgaben
- •Provide strategic legal advice to operations.
- •Collaborate with cross-functional leaders and legal experts.
- •Offer guidance on corporate and regional legal matters.
- •Draft, negotiate, and oversee various contracts.
- •Support quality compliance and process improvement initiatives.
- •Develop and refine legal templates and tools.
- •Implement legal policies and guidelines for compliance.
- •Monitor local and international legal trends for strategic planning.
Original Beschreibung
# Senior Legal Counsel
**The Position**
Boehringer Ingelheim is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Legal Counsel to join our Corporate Legal Manufacture, Supply and Global Quality (MSQ) team. This role is pivotal in providing proactive legal support to our One Operations functions, including Pharma Supply & Global Quality and Biopharma Operations, Launch & Innovation. The ideal candidate will be a strategic business partner, offering comprehensive legal services and driving efficient legal support across global operations.
This position has a hybrid setup with approximately 3 days per week on site.
**Tasks & responsibilities**
* **Be the Strategic Business Partner:** You will provide strategic legal advice to the One Operations functions, ensuring alignment with business goals.
* **Collaborate Across Teams:** Expect to work together with cross-functional leaders, Corporate Legal Experts, and international legal colleagues to deliver seamless legal support.
* **Deliver Comprehensive Legal Services:** You will offer a wide range of legal expertise, including strategic guidance on corporate projects and regional matters with global implications.
* **Take Charge of Contract Management:** You will draft, negotiate, and oversee contracts with Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) suppliers, raw material providers, and device manufacturers.
* **Support Quality Excellence:** You will play a key role in quality-related topics such as GMP compliance, process improvement, and site inspections, while representing the legal function in the Corporate Advisory Committee (CAC).
* **Drive Legal Innovation:** You will enhance legal efficiency by developing and refining templates, tools, and processes, as well as sharing best practices across global teams.
**Developing of Guidelines and Standards:** You will develop and implement legal policies, guidelines and standards to ensure reliable product supply and compliance with international laws and regulations.
* **Stay ahead of Legal Trends:** You will monitor evolving local and international laws and regulations, anticipating trends to craft forward-thinking legal strategies for our One Operations functions.
**Requirements**
* Fully qualified lawyer, ideally with additional qualifications (LL.M/MBA) or comparable foreign education
* Long-term relevant legal experience in the pharmaceutical and/or animal health industry or international law firms
* Broad experience in international contract law and various areas of commercial law relevant to the MSQ business
* Ability to monitor and manage projects and initiatives across regions and countries
* Business partner-oriented, analytical, and strategic mindset with the ability to develop risk based pragmatic solutions
* Excellent team player with strong interpersonal skills and understanding of cultural diversity
* Excellent communication skills in English (preferably also in German) including negotiation capabilities