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Counsel France-BeNeLux. This is a high potential
The role is hybrid with 3-days a week in the office in Paris, France, and will report to Legal Director Europe located in Cologne, Germany.
In this role, you will…
As the Legal Counsel France-BeNeLux you will manage all legal matters and potential risks to Align business in the markets. You will support and navigate heterogenous legal landscape, always in compliance with Align Policies, Code of Conduct and strategy.
You will interface with all disciplines and departments within Align supporting the France-BeNeLux region. This will include, but not limited to, commercial, corporate, regulatory, competition, litigation, public affairs and compliance support.
You will also have a chance to work closely with various cross-functional teams and global centers of excellence on various regional and global projects.
The key missions will include:
- Lead responsibility for all legal matters in the region covering France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg.
- Provide high quality legal and strategic advice and day-to-day support to the commercial and other functional teams.
- Anticipate and address critical legal, business and ethical issues.
- Support the organization in public affairs activities and litigation.
- Work closely with the local HR Department on general employment issues or other issues common to HR and Legal.
- Plan and deliver risk-based training programs including interactions with HCPs, competition law, etc.
- Effectively establish and manage relationships with external counsels.
- Work closely with the rest of the AE (and in particular European) Legal Department and the Global Compliance and Data Privacy Team as to create, develop, implement and maintain a risk-based compliance program with consistent and effective European policies and procedure, that also reflect domestic laws, regulations and culture.
- Advise and keep the Legal Director Europe updated on business management of critical projects in a timely manner and assist in reviewing all matters relating to compliance and financial reporting as appropriate.
In this role, you'll need...
- Qualified French/civil lawyer, licensed to practice under French law
- 6-10 years post-bar experience, ideally gained within healthcare/medical environment as in-house lawyer or with a law firm representing healthcare clients.
- Experience within medical device sector or wider pharmaceutical, biotechnology or life sciences sectors; exposure to competition law, data privacy and compliance preferred.
- Strong transactional and drafting skills.
- Fluent in both spoken and written French and English, third European language welcomed but not a must
Additional skills:
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with demonstrated initiative, adaptability and integrity.
- Result-driven, collaborative, focused, excellent in multitasking, flexible and willing to learn and adapt to a continuously changing legal environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a broad audience including medical, legal and highly specialized technical individuals, with strong but diplomatic presence.
- Experience in handling a high volume of activity involving multiple and often complex projects simultaneously, and ability to deal positively when working within tight time pressure and demanding clients.
- Impeccable business and risk management judgment and ethics.
