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Teva Director Legal Generalist 
Canada, Ontario, Toronto 
103570587

06.03.2025
How you’ll spend your day

Legal Business Partner Support:

  • Manage and oversee a diverse portfolio of legal matters impacting the Canadian organization, including but not limited to purchase and/or divestment of assets, alliance management, agreement negotiating and drafting, advising on local laws, legal counselling, litigation matters, regulations and company policies etc.
  • As a strong and reliable business partner interfacing with cross-functional units and attending various business meetings to provide legal input
  • Overseeing external legal counsel, managing legal spend, and connecting issues and opportunities across the business to drive the company's success
  • Support the Executive Counsel as needed and provide legal advice and support to the Company's various business units in the Canadian business
  • All other Business Partner duties as required


Non-IP Litigation

  • Manage important non-IP litigation including but not limited to HR and employee matters, mediations, employment and labour standard issues, etc.
  • Participates in business meetings and trains on issues related to rebate and customer contracting, formulary placement and payer agreements
  • Review and update all organization policies and procedures annually
  • Support as needed in audits of customer utilization and compliance with rebate agreements
  • Ensures that the company follows all applicable laws, rules and regulations; monitors compliance and makes recommendations regarding changes to policies or operations
  • All other duties as assigned

Privacy Champion

  • Develop, implement and maintain organizational privacy policies, procedures and guidelines in compliance with legislation and in coordination with organizational leadership, the Privacy compliance oversight structure, and legal counsel
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic business partner to ensure data privacy requirements are incorporated in Enterprise, business activities and programs
  • Represents the organization as the Privacy Officer
  • All other Privacy duties as required
Your experience and qualifications
  • Education Required: Juris Doctorate
  • Experience Required: Minimum of 12+ years of experience in private practice and/or in-house setting experience in a related industry
  • Experience Preferred: Work experience in a firm or legal experience in a pharmaceutical/ Healthcare/ Life sciences matrix-based organization is a preferred
  • Experience managing and resolving complex/sensitive problems
  • The ability to work effectively on unclear, ambiguous, or contradictory problems
  • The ability to strongly influence or convince others outside a direct span of control of a particular position to obtain concurrence or buy-in
  • Exceptional knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to prescription
  • Experience reviewing advertising and promotional materials of pharmaceutical products
  • Diverse scope of legal experiences (e.g. litigation, M&A, regulatory / administrative law, IP, etc.), as well as strong contract drafting and negotiation skills
  • Be able to multi-task and work under pressure
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills; solid project management skills
  • Proven judgment and ability to counsel senior management and influence executives
  • Ability to work independently as well as within a cross functional dynamic team environment
  • Travel Requirements: 10-15% of the time

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