Вакансия Head Legal and Compliance Ukraine, South-East Europe, Central Asia and Baltics Clusters

As the global leader in eye care, Alcon's mission is to provide innovative products that enhance quality of life by helping people see better. This mission means that Alcon's more than 22,000 associates strive to make significant contributions to preserve, restore and enhance vision. Through the merger that unites the strengths of Alcon, CIBA VISION and Novartis, the new Alcon becomes the second largest division of Novartis. With these collective resources and scale, we offer the widest spectrum of eye care products in surgical, pharmaceutical and vision care across 180 markets and run operations in 75 countries.

We are looking for:

Head of Legal&Compliance UKR Cluster

Major Accountabilities

• Monitor and influence legal developments; ensure that the business considers legal trends and risks in the business strategy.
• Represent Alcon Legal to outside stakeholders, in particular the government and industry associations.
• Directly handle legal issues related to the surgical and vision care businesses, litigation, corporate governance and labor law.
• Directly negotiate agreements for the local organization, i.e., equipment financing agreements, sale agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, promotion agreements, etc.
• In collaboration with the Alcon Global IP function, conduct risk assessments regarding IP protection and enforce and defend Alcon IP in the cluster.
• Limit litigation risk exposure, including risk derived from clinical trial issues, distribution agree-ments, anti-trust issues and employee relations.
• Manage legal housekeeping (archiving of contracts, minutes of the local organization boards and shareholder meetings etc.).
• Ensure adherence to Novartis Outside Counsel Policy, develop a Country Outside Counsel Panel and manage external law firms.
• Manage Legal budget.
• Establish Compliance standards based on internal policies such as Code of Conduct, Corporate Citizenship guidelines, marketing practices and all applicable local laws and regulations.
• Oversee local requirements relating to national law and national industry codes and ensure that all business practices conducted in the cluster comply with such requirements and with the global minimal standards as contained in company-wide policies.
• Facilitate the establishment and communication of local processes and SOPs, covering Promotional Content, Interactions with HCPs/Patients and Grants and any additional local requirements.
• Establish local annual training plans, covering compliance standards.
• Conduct on-boarding and refresher training on compliance standards, such as Code of Conduct, Corporate Citizenship guidelines, promotional practices and other relevant compliance related areas.
• Champion ethical tone throughout the organization, e.g. promote compliance standards through effective communication by actively involving local Senior/Middle Management to leverage messages on compliance and maintain high level of awareness.
• Foster ethical behavior through inclusion of criteria related to compliance in associates Objectives / Incentives.
• Conduct compliance-related risk assessment.
• Develop measures to self-monitor the compliance program in the cluster and implement corrective actions if necessary.
• Ensure communication and implementation of Business Practices Office process for reporting allegations of misconduct.
• Investigation of alleged misconduct based on allocation of responsibility by Business Practices Office.
• Support Management regarding disciplinary measures of misconduct.
• Consider appropriate ways by which associates learn about possible consequences of Compliance related misconduct or best practices.
• Engage in Global Compliance Initiatives.

Minimum requirements

Higher legal education, experience of 9-10 years in specialization, 2-3 years of experience in an international company, professional level of English proficiency, including the experience of writing and discussing legal and commercial documents, 10 years of legal practice after graduation: ideally accumulated in the medical or pharmaceutical environment, or, in leading law firms, representing the interests of clients in the field of health care.