Job Description
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Job Description
The Company
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercialises innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus worldwide include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, COVID-19, oncology, cell therapy and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
The Position
Gilead Sciences’ UK & Ireland commercial affiliate is seeking a lawyer to join its Legal & Business Conduct team, based in central London. The role reports to the Legal Senior Director (UK/I) and sits within a small, highly collaborative UK & Ireland Legal & Business Conduct team. This team forms part of Gilead’s global legal function.
This is an exciting, dual legal and compliance role in a broad and evolving practice with responsibility for advising key therapeutic and functional areas across the business and being involved in business decisions and commercial strategy from inception to implementation. The successful candidate will have a proactive, hands-on mentality and be focused on finding pragmatic solutions.
This role offers great opportunities to learn and develop in an innovative and supportive business environment. It would suit both lawyers with in-house experience and lawyers looking to make their first step out of private practice.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are looking for lawyers who bring diversity of thought and experience to Gilead. Building an inclusive and diverse legal team is critical to us: we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of our patients. In this culture we believe all people will do their best work.
Responsibilities
Working with the other members of the Legal & Business Conduct team to ensure comprehensive support and advice on legal and business conduct issues across all business units and functions in the UK & Ireland affiliate.
These include:
Pricing and reimbursement processes in the UK and Ireland
Supply, distribution and tenders
Promotion and marketing activities, including in-person interactions and digital communications
Collaborative working with healthcare organisations
Market research and business analytics
Medical Affairs activities, including medical education
Interactions with patient organisations and community groups
Policy and government affairs initiatives.
Advising on and negotiating commercial contracts, including:
Implementing and embedding the automated contract generation system within the affiliate, identifying improvements to make use of the system more efficient.
Maintaining contract templates, adapting Gilead global templates for the UK and Ireland
With the other members of the Legal & Business Conduct team, embedding and developing the affiliate’s compliance framework. In partnership with business colleagues, this will include:
Identifying areas of potential risk on an on-going basis, and contribute to the formal annual risk assessment
Developing documented policies and processes
Designing and delivering effective in-house training
Resolving issues and share lessons learnt
Helping to embed a strong compliance culture
Knowledge and experience
The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience in commercial contracting and in advising on laws and regulations relevant to Gilead’s business in the UK and Ireland, for example anti-bribery, data privacy, competition law or public procurement.
Experience advising the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry (in-house or in private practice) and/or advising on medicines regulations, the ABPI Code and/or IPHA Code will be an advantage but is not a pre-requisite.
Candidates must be qualified to practice as a lawyer in the UK.
Skills
The successful candidate will have the following skills:
Strong analytical approach and attention to detail.
Clear and efficient drafting and negotiation
Strong communication – both written and verbal
Good judgment and common sense in finding practical solutions
Strong time management and organisation, able to meet deadlines across multiple tasks with shifting priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Ease of collaboration both within the immediate team and with colleagues across different functions
Behaviours
The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following behaviours:
Self-motivated and proactive
Curious with a desire to learn
Strong client service orientation.
The successful candidate will also reflect the Gilead core values of:
Integrity (doing what’s right),
Teamwork (working together),
Excellence (being your best)
Inclusion (encouraging diversity)
Accountability (taking personal responsibility)
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.
For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job.