Senior Legal Counsel UK and Ireland

Senior Legal Counsel UK and Ireland

About Abbott

Abbott 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.

The Legal Counsel will provide commercial and strategic legal advice and support to Abbott’s businesses. Duties will include analysis and provision of strategic legal advice focused on business-oriented solutions on a wide range of general commercial matters and regulatory matters.

What You’ll Do

• Identifies routine to complex legal issues related to strategic matters across Abbott divisions; solutions focused and effective risk management capability.
• Negotiates and provides strategic legal support on significant matters and areas of importance directly to management and lead stakeholders across the divisions.
• Resolves moderately complex to complex legal matters day to day in practice area and elevates appropriately to senior legal leadership and other members of the legal team where support is needed.
• Keeps abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas; communicates these to business; represents Abbott externally to customers, suppliers, competitors or government agencies.
• Resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise; coaches and directs assigned support staff in their responsibilities.
• Manages external counsel in a cost-effective manner to minimize risk to Abbott and provide effective advice to the relevant Abbott EMEA businesses.
• Advises EMEA and divisional counsels or other legal department managers of critical project developments/matters in a timely manner.
• Helps select and/or directs the work of outside counsel, defines project objectives and manages project.

Required Qualifications

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

Essential:

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

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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.

The base pay for this position is

N/A. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Operations & Business Support

DIVISION:

GENC General Counsel

LOCATION:

United Kingdom > Maidenhead : Abbott House

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

About Us

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.