Description:
Job Details:Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working with key stakeholders of the Indirect Sourcing team and be responsible for the delivery of effective legal services to his or her clients.
- Handling legal projects, matters, and issues and should demonstrate technical legal skills and expertise sufficient to undertake customary and/or recurring projects, matters, and issues with minimal supervision in most instances.
- Take on mixed legal and business responsibility for, and project management of, contracts or other matters that the client group wants to pursue.
- Work closely with indirect suppliers and should be able to represent A Pharmaceutical Products Wholesaler Company and his or her relevant client groups on the development, negotiation and finalization of new indirect supplier contracts and maintain existing contracts. The Senior Counsel may be required in these situations to have an integral role in both legal and business negotiations.
- Demonstrate decision-making capability and should be proficient in being able to make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations to his or her clients.
- Juggle multiple matters and effectively multi-task and prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely and efficient matter.
- Effectively cope with change and shift gears comfortably.
Must have a minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas of legal practice (e.g., litigation, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and commercial law, securities law, privacy law, health law, technology law, or employment and labor law). The lawyer in this role should have sufficient expertise in those areas of legal practice that are necessary to provide legal counsel effectively to his or her clients. Law Degree - must be a graduate of an accredited law school and admitted into the state bar.
The lawyer in this role is comparable to a senior associate or counsel in a law firm and is a lawyer who can do sophisticated work as an individual contributor (with minimal guidance and oversight from his or her manager in most instances) and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals to do the work.
Minimum Skills, Knowledge And Ability Requirements:
- Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and legal procedures
- Working knowledge of corporate law including SEC regulations and document preparation, litigation, anti-trust laws, nuisance law, court and regulatory agency (FTC and FDA) procedures, and contract negotiation and preparation
- The lawyer in this role has the expertise and background to be comfortable supervising outside lawyers engaged to work on matters for A Pharmaceutical Products Wholesaler Company, including outside lawyers from law firms used by A Pharmaceutical Products Wholesaler Company for assignments in the lawyer's area of practice for A Pharmaceutical Products Wholesaler Company.
- In this role, the lawyer is expected to build knowledge of ABC's businesses and industry policies and practices.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively
- Strong negotiating skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
- Ability to follow and interpret legal trends
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
