Associate General Counsel, Legal Strategy

Company Description

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 Associate General Counsel, Legal Strategy, you will play a pivotal role in developing comprehensive legal strategies to shape policy and advance company priorities. Leveraging your understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare policy, you will collaborate with internal subject matter experts and external partners to drive creative solutions to complex legal challenges.

Key Responsibilities 

• Proactively lead the development of strategies and initiatives to successfully navigate pharmaceutical supply chain, regulatory, and access reform in the US today and in the future.
• Partner with functions across AbbVie to develop and evaluate new strategies designed to support AbbVie’s objectives and goals in complex areas requiring strong cross-functional partnership and external environment shaping.   
• Determine prioritization, timeline and resourcing needs for strategic initaitives and gain internal alignment. 
• Drive cross-functional team execution and progress.
• Develop lines of communication with internal subject matter experts and key business counterparts to inform strategic initiatives and help build cohesive AbbVie strategies.

Qualifications

• Law degree from an ABA accredited law school and in good standing with the state bar of the jurisdiction in which your office will be located (or ability to gain licensure in the state in which your office will be located).
• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience practicing as a member of a law firm or in-house with a focus on pharmaceutical industry.
• Significant industry experience, preferably within a pharmaceutical company, health insurer, with a deep understanding of the