Вакансия Head of Legal and Compliance Ukraine, South-East Europe, Central Asia and Baltic 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 Ukraine, Baltic, SEE and Central Asia Clusters

The Head of Legal and Compliance is responsible for providing strategic and legal advice in (and for ensuring the legal sufficiency of) all matters that are relevant to business in the Clusters, such as, for illustration, contracts (e.g. marketing, promotion, purchasing, consultancy, employment, etc.), litigation, and employee relations. In addition, he/she is responsible for establishing, promoting, and reinforcing compliance standards, aligned with local laws and regulations and company-wide compliance policies.

This experienced legal manager, with support and direction from the EGM Head of Legal and Compliance, also provides strategic legal guidance and training in key legal areas.

As a member of the local organization’s management team, the Head of Legal and Compliance adds value to the local business beyond purely legal matters.

A geographical scope of responsibilities of Head of Legal and Compliance includes the following countries:

• Ukraine Cluster (Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia)
• Baltic Cluster (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)
• South-East Europe Cluster (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Cyprus, Israel)
• Central Asia Cluster (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaizhan, Kirgizstan)

Major Accountabilities:

As Legal Head

• 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 pharmaceuticals, surgical and vision care businesses, litigation, corporate governance and labor law.

• Directly negotiate agreements for the local organization, i.e., distribution agreements, promotion agreements, etc. as well as to provide support for organizations of the Clusters

• Limit litigation risk exposure, including risk derived from distribution agreements, 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 the Country Outside Counsel Panel and manage external law firms.

• Provide timely legal support for the Clusters

• Manage Legal budget (if available) as well as to ensure effective enegagement of the otside counsel fot eh cluster countries.

As Compliance Officer

• Establish compliance standards based on internal policies and guidelines / implementing procedures

(CoC, BPO, Anti-Bribery [AB] and AP3’s) and on applicable local laws and regulations incl. industry code, where applicable. Align local standards with global minimal standards and ensure that in all cases the most stringent is applied

• Advise country management on compliance related topics and compliance aspects of major initiatives

• Actively follow trends in the market, regulatory environment including in business practices

• Actively engage in industry associations and other compliance related stakeholder groups

• Actively participate in Country Compliance Meetings and share best practices

• Support the CCH in the identification and realization of cross-divisional synergies

• Oversee local requirements relating to national law and national industry codes and ensure that all business practices conducted in the country comply with such requirements and with the global minimal standards as contained in companywide policies

• Liaise with the compliance officers of Clusters (where such are appointed) in order to provide support to build the proper compline tone at the organization.

• 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. Ensure speak-up, transparency and a culture of integrity throughout the organization

• Foster ethical behavior through inclusion of criteria related to compliance in associates Objectives / Incentives

• Assess risks. Inform country leadership on identified compliance risks. Align compliance risk mitigation plan with management

• Conduct self-assessments to monitor the status of the compliance program, within the respective division at local level. Ensure a self-assessment is conducted annually.

• Regularly update country leadership and regional / global compliance (of your respective division) and on the status of the compliance program

• Involvement in a process to conduct third-party due diligence together with relevant functions

• Develop measures to self-monitor the compliance program in the country 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 country management in proposing and implementing sanctions relating to BPO cases for consistency of sanctions throughout the country (BPO resolution process)

• Consider appropriate ways by which associates learn about possible consequences of Compliance related misconduct or best practices

• Following the closing of the investigation by the BPO, identify and support implementation of corrective actions to prevent recurrence of misconduct in consultation with Global Division Compliance Head and Country Management

• Engage in Global Compliance Initiatives such as the Compliance Network to share best practices/learning including between the countries of the cluster.

Experience/Professional Requirement:

Extensive experience in legal practice (> 5 years)

• Preferably significant (> 3 years) experience in legal practice related to the pharmaceutical or medical device/technology industry

• Proven ability to proactively provide insightful and timely legal support to stakeholders across a functionally and geographically-dispersed organization

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Speak up culture, persuasive negotiator and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders

• Strong leadership skills

• Passion for business integrity topic and impeccable integrity track record

• Experience with corporate responsibility and with balancing global standards and local cultures

Languages:

• Ukrainian, Russian and English-fluent