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Lead Counsel, Marketing & Commercial Excellence and IBU Medical
- Location
- Zurich
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 11D AGO
About the role
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Job Description
About the Role:As a Director, Lead Counsel, Marketing & Commercial Excellence (MCE) and International Business Unit (IBU) Medical, you will have a unique opportunity to partner with the MCE and the Medical IBU organizations as they are being developed to support Takeda in a time of transformation:
- Serves as the legal go-to for the Immunology and Digital First Franchise in the Strategy & Marketing Unit and ensures excellent asset and product support through the entire lifecycle of relevant products;
- Provides legal support to MCE’s Marketing and Execution, Insights & Analytics and Commercial Capabilities units.
Assists Head Counsel, MCE and IBU Medical, in further developing knowledge and streamlining processes, and coordinate people and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results.
The new Marketing & Commercial Excellence organization is the catalyst that transforms and enables IBU to deliver high-quality, personalized and faster support to customers at scale. It serves as the marketing engine of IBU that turns brand strategy into consistent, competitive execution and will provide Strategy & Marketing, Marketing Execution, Insights & Analytics and Commercial Capabilities services. MCE will create high-quality brand materials with key LOCs as well as facilitate best practice sharing across IBU and Takeda, in collaboration with SPD, LOCs and IBU Medical.
The Lead Counsel will be able to operate in a dynamic environment, rapidly foster trust and rapport, and make a big impact on the new way of working.
It will be key that the person in this role is a strong partner to the business and to attorneys serving in other related parts of the business in order to achieve the vision of IBU to realize growth potential for Takeda.
How you will contribute:
- Provides strategic and practical legal support to MCE franchises and other MCE functions by serving as an embedded member of the Commercial organization and a key contributor to cross-functional product teams.
- Provides strategic legal support to the IBU Medical organization.
- Proactively advises on pipeline and in-market portfolio strategies, activities, and materials throughout the product lifecycle, from pre-launch through loss of exclusivity (LOE).
- Collaborates closely with regional and country legal colleagues across the IBU, as well as with global legal teams supporting areas such as SPD, DD&T, Contracting, Intellectual Property (IP), and other key functions, to ensure aligned and effective legal support.
- Partners with Ethics & Compliance (E&C), Advertising & Promotion (A&P), and other key stakeholders to promote and support ethical interactions with patients, patient organizations, healthcare professionals, and government authorities.
Qualifications:
- Qualified/admitted lawyer in a European Country or other relevant jurisdiction;
- Typically, 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial pharmaceutical in-house experience, supporting, amongst others, business strategy, patient advocacy activities, engagement with healthcare providers and market access;
- Experience advising on product launch preparation, product launches, and loss of exclusivity (LOE) strategies and activities is desired.
- High energy, curious, proactive and self-starter;
- Excellent in presentation and communication skills, ability to influence without authority;
- Strong technical skills in legal and regulatory areas. Solid understanding of pharmaceutical business in EU and International;
- Skilled at working in cross functional and international legal teams;
- Pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach and strong capability to assess risk;
- Experience in interfacing and communicating with external partners, including law firms;
- Team player who puts the success of the team first;
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and change and strong prioritization skills;
- English language fluency (written and oral);
- Desire to put patient and people first and demonstrate the values of Takeda-ism;
- Willingness to travel occasionally.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in private practice is strongly preferred;
- Experience working at LOC or Regional level preferred;
- Any further professional proficiency in another language is a plus.
Location:
- This role is open to Zurich, Switzerland, or any other European location where Takeda has a LOC.
Locations
Zurich, SwitzerlandBase Salary Range:
CHF177,400.00 - CHF243,980.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
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