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Senior Counsel, Legal Privacy & Data Security

AbbVie
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Mar 2025

About the role

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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Senior Counsel, Legal Privacy & Data Security will be responsible for handling a variety of privacy and data security matters across business areas and jurisdictions, with a primary focus on U.S. data privacy and cyber security matters.

 

Core Job Responsibilities:

  • Strategic and day-to-day legal support for business functions (both aesthetics and therapeutics).
  • Monitor and advise on compliance and implementation positions for emerging data privacy laws.
  • Support global privacy contracts and M&A legal teams regarding data privacy legal questions, contract reviews, and negotiations.
  • Draft, review, negotiate, and manage data privacy and protection terms for a variety of transactional agreements, including master services agreements, professional services and consulting agreements, statements of work, BAAs, business technology agreements, and supply agreements.
  • Support the AbbVie privacy compliance office regarding the operation of AbbVie’s global privacy program. 
  • Monitor and advise on the implications of privacy laws on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
  • Legal support for information security risk management team, including data breach analysis and response, third party risk management, and insider risk.
  • Draft and review privacy notice, consent, and contract templates, both globally and regionally.
  • Manage and supervise external privacy counsel work. 

Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

  • Candidates must possess a JD degree and state bar ce

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