Senior Legal Counsel

4 weeks ago

Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom Abbott Laboratories Full time

About Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel to join the Legal team, this position works out of our Maidenhead location.

Abbott Legal offers interesting, challenging and rewarding work that encompasses a diverse portfolio of products – from consumer products to innovative medical technologies. We provide the opportunity to interact with customers and colleagues from around the world. Like the Abbott businesses we support, Abbott Legal is a dynamic organisation, and we are committed to developing our employees to meet the evolving needs of the company.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Identify and analyze routine to complex legal issues related to strategic matters across Abbott divisions; provide solutions-focused and effective risk management capability.
  2. Negotiate and provide strategic legal support on significant matters and areas of importance directly to management and lead stakeholders across the divisions.
  3. Resolve moderately complex to complex legal matters day-to-day in practice area and elevate appropriately to senior legal leadership and other members of the legal team where support is needed.
  4. Stay up-to-date with changes in laws that affect client areas; communicate these to business; represent Abbott externally to customers, suppliers, competitors or government agencies.
  5. Resolve legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise; coach and direct assigned support staff in their responsibilities.
  6. Manage external counsel in a cost-effective manner to minimize risk to Abbott and provide effective advice to the relevant Abbott EMEA businesses.
  7. Advise EMEA and divisional counsels or other legal department managers of critical project developments/matters in a timely manner.
  8. Help select and/or direct the work of outside counsel, define project objectives and manage project.

Requirements

  1. Qualified Lawyer holding the necessary practice certificate as applicable.
  2. Extensive post-qualification experience.
  3. In-house legal experience required, preferably with some experience in the healthcare sector or other highly regulated industry.

Essential Skills

  1. Strong experience in general commercial law.
  2. Cross-border international experience.
  3. Instruction and management of external counsel.
  4. Strong drafting, negotiation and client communication skills.
  5. Strong project management skills.
  6. Appreciation of key USA and European anti-corruption, sanctions and compliance laws.
  7. Able to assimilate new areas of law quickly leveraging support from external counsel where appropriate.

What We Offer

As you'd expect from a global healthcare company, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including competitive salaries, a superb defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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