Senior Counsel, R&D Innovation Legal (Specialty, Aesthetics, and R&D Strategies)

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

As a Senior Counsel in the R&D Innovation Legal group, you will support AbbVie\'s R&D organization in navigating enterprise-critical issues in an evolving legal and regulatory environment as we work to bring new, innovative products to patients. This individual will be supporting our pipeline strategies to develop next generation assets to improve the standard of care for patients. A successful candidate will be motivated by the opportunity to address and solve emerging issues with a strategic and creative business-oriented approach and provide expert counsel on decisions impacting our long-term pipeline strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and provide strategic counsel to senior leaders within the R&D and corporate strategy organizations on legal and regulatory issues that impact pipeline development, government agency engagement and product innovation. Technical degree preferred to advise on intersections between law and scientific / innovation approaches to drug development.
• Embedded within the Specialty and / or Aesthetics therapeutic areas to contribute as a key member of disease area strategy teams responsible for long-term R&D and innovation strategies. Focus is on pipeline development and the FDA and IRA considerations when assessing strategic approaches. This is not a role focused on FDA advertising and promotional considerations.
• Educates other AbbVie legal departments and business stakeholders on emerging laws, regulations and industry trends impacting AbbVie pipeline and R&D early stage discovery and product development.
• Proactively identifies highly complex legal issues related to assigned matters, develops creative and alternative solutions, and implements resolution.
• Adopts a business oriented and creative approach to problem solving.
• Identifies unmet needs and future legal issues and proactively proposes strategies to optimize outcomes and results for the company in complex areas of law, business, and technology.
• Advises senior leadership. Recognized by these clients as both expert in substantive area and relied upon for individual advice.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company\'s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company\'s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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