Legal Counsel - UK&IE

Legal Counsel - UK&IE Date: Feb 14, 2023 Location: Castleford, United Kingdom, WF10 5HX Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals Job Id: 45398 Who are we?

We touch the lives of over 200 million patients every day, and billions every year. After all, everyone needs healthcare or medication at some point. Yet until today, you may not have heard of us.

We're Teva, a global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare to patients around the world.

We are recruiting a Legal Counsel to support the General Counsel for UK & Ireland, and the wider UK and Irish Legal team, in the provision of a high quality and commercially focused legal service to the UK and Irish commercial business units.

Flexible location: we are happy to consider candidates located in a commutable distance to our sites in Harlow or Castleford (with travel as required). We have a hybrid approach to home-working!

A Day in the Life of a Legal Counsel...

• You will be business partnering with UK & Ireland commercial business units to provide pragmatic legal advice.
• You will be responsible for supporting customer facing teams, including Pharmacy, Wholesalers, Dispensing Doctors, Hospitals, OTC and NHS procurement and Tendering.
• You will be partnering with business colleagues on initiatives to strategise and develop new ways of building relationships and business opportunities with customers, with a particular focus on pharmacy customers.
• You will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising on contractual arrangements with customers and third parties.
• You will provide contract law and strategic advice on a range of contract categories including, marketing and supply, Wholesaler, service agreements, consultancy agreements, patient support programmes, NHS collaborative working agreements.
• You will be working with NHS tendering teams to understand changes to procurement processes and contracts.
• You will be supporting Senior lawyer in team on general procurement projects and contracts.
• You will anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and/or recommending process and service improvements.
• You will manage legal risk in a manner that supports and facilitates their continued commercial success.
• You will support external and internal project teams to achieve milestones and objectives.

Who we are looking for

Do you have...?

• Law degree

• Post-qualification Law experience within the UK.

• Strong technical contract law knowledge with experience of negotiating commercial contracts is essential.

• Some Competition, IP and GDPR experience would be an advantage, or the ability to identify issues in these areas.

• A desire to work as part of a close-knit team and to support other legal team members as and when required.
  

Are you...?

• A broad thinker, with the ability to think outside of the box and apply a business focused and value-add mind-set to new projects and initiatives.
• Agile and able to embrace change and continuous learning.
• Able to put customers at the heart of decision making.
• Innovative, creative and solution focused.
• Data savvy, with an ability to understand and utilise data to drive decisions.

What Teva can offer you

• Enjoying time with your families (25 days of annual leave, Flexible approach to home working, Pension scheme, car or car allowance)
• Looking after your health (Life & Critical Illness Insurance, Private health insurance for you and your family, Sports and Health Programme – including health days and nutritional counselling, On-site Canteen)
• Recognizing your value (Recognition programs to reward our employees with our company bonus scheme)
• Boosting your potential (Virtual Learning Centre)
• Well-being and D&I focused company

Function Legal & IP Reports To

General Counsel, UK & Ireland with relevant supervision from legal team members

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