Senior Manager - Legal and Compliance

Senior Manager Legal & Compliance

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The Position

Manager Legal and Compliance
Roche Diagnostics India and Neighbouring Markets
Reporting to: Vice President Legal, Compliance and Risk Management
Location: Mumbai


Responsible for managing legal and compliance for an assigned business area of Roche Diagnostics in India. Manage legal business matters pertaining to the business area. Provide a variety of legal services to in-house clients. Act as a trusted business partner on legal issues involving the business area’s government and regulatory compliance. Review legal data and advise stakeholders on appropriate legal action to be taken. Coordinate legal matters handled by outside counsel. Demonstrate experience in general corporate matters, drafting transactional documents, anti-competition law, license agreements, employment law, data privacy, contract management, etc.
Effectively foster and further strengthen a culture of integrity, drive compliance risk and opportunity management and state-of-the-art compliance programs, and foster continuous improvement of compliance and business sustainability processes with an effective and proactive business-oriented approach. Manage strategies and tactics for the systems and processes related to healthcare and privacy compliance, ethics and related compliance areas. Responsibilities may include compliance reporting, healthcare professional contracting, donations, commercial sponsorships and educational funding to comply with legal, local, regional and global requirements. Monitor adherence to legislation, company policies and procedures, and emerging compliance trends to assure local adherence. Ensure timely and accurate data analysis to identify trends or patterns of complaints.

Your Opportunity

• Understand business activities and draw and implement a legal strategy for the assigned areas of business / functions
• Legal risk identification, drawing and implementation of mitigation plans
• Advise on / draft appropriate forms of Agreement including standardization
• Work with internal stakeholders and lead the negotiation, drafting, vetting and reviewing of business contracts
• Review Tender documents and advice on appropriate legal strategy, where needed
• Drafting, vetting and reviewing submissions to Govt. Authorities.
• Manage external counsels including coordinating for various legal matters and determine the litigation strategy in consultation with the Head Legal, Compliance and Risk Management
• Drive the Compliance and Ethics agenda
• Keep track of various developments to applicable regulations, identify its business implications and keep stakeholders updated about the same
• Performing gap assessments and drawing up a Compliance roadmap for the assigned business area
• Implement and foster local Compliance programs and ensure organizational ethics, healthcare and other compliance by identifying and creating awareness of applicable statutes
• Drive a compliance mindset across the affiliate; as evidenced by the business strategy, policies, process, operations and ways of working; ensure that the affiliate fully complies with Roche global and all applicable local compliance standards and requirements; protect the business from compliance risk and safeguard Roche’s reputation

Who you are:

• Registered lawyer with the bar license
• 8+ years’ experience in the Life Sciences Industries Legal and Compliance  functions
• Deep knowledge of contract laws, court procedures, Legal research
• Strong knowledge of Code of Conduct, compliance processes and Audit
• Ability and proficiency to work with senior leadership team members
• Strong interpersonal skills, solution-focused and strong collaborative mindset
• Ability to handle ambiguity and to manage organizational complexity
• Ability to take decisions in a fast paced environment and under ambiguity

 

 

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Experience Level

Senior Level