Legal Director Belgium & Luxembourg will oversee the legal aspects of local commercialization of GSK medicines and vaccines in those countries in order to enable the appropriate strategic and operational legal risk identification and mitigation. Successful candidate will become part of the Country Leadership Team and engage with local sales, marketing, medical and support function organizations as well as working closely within GSK above market Legal teams.
Draft, develop, prepare and execute contracts and other legal documents of legal/strategic/financial/regulatory importance.
Review business, scientific, commercial, and sales/marketing documents/communications and advise on appropriate strategy/language to manage legal risk while maximizing business benefit.
Anticipate and proactively support the management of legal risks facing the pharmaceutical business in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Recommend policies and practices on issues presenting potential legal risk arising from pharmaceutical healthcare activities, and support their development and implementation.
Review and interpret pending or new legislation or regulatory rules impacting the pharmaceutical business and advise the business management on appropriate compliance measures.
Liaise with other groups within the GSK Legal organisation (such as other lawyers in the Europe Commercial Legal team and lawyers in other parts of GSK Legal Function and other departments (e.g. Compliance, Corporate Risk and Insurance Management, Tax, Finance, Procurement etc.) Educate client groups within the pharmaceutical healthcare business on legal issues and new developments impacting the businesses.
Provide line management, leadership and support for development of 1 directly reporting employee – Paralegal co-located in Wavre office.
This job will give you the opportunity to develop in a dynamic innovative pharmaceutical environment and deliver significant impact to the company’s operations exercising both professional skills and judgment, as well as business leadership skills.
Fluency in Dutch/French and English languages.
Minimum 5 years legal practice as in-house counsel or external law firm in legal advice to business undertakings.
Relationship and stakeholder management, communication skills
Ability to drive partnerships, influence and proactively challenge in a matrix organization with senior leaders.
We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
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