Associate Legal Director

**Date**:15 Apr 2025

**Location**: SC00 - HEADQUARTERS - BARCELON, ES, ES - Spain

**Company**:Almirall

**About us**:
We care. Through pharmaceutical innovation and a strong commitment to global healthcare partnerships, we are dedicated to providing the tools, knowledge and science to improve the health of patients worldwide. We research, develop, manufacture and market our own medicines as well as a portfolio of licensed products designed to respond to the needs of different therapeutic areas. Today, our products are available in over 100 countries, on 5 continents, through 15 affiliates. Find out how we work every day to help to transform lives through science.

**Mission**:
**Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Serve as legal advisor to certain functions, including Procurement, Industrial Operations, R&D, Marketing and Medical Affairs, and to any assigned affiliate(s), on strategic, relevant and routine matters, providing legal guidance on projects and business opportunities and implementing key risk management strategies.
- Providing legal advice on promotional complaints and disputes, ensuring coordination and alignment among relevant company stakeholders, and engaging and coordinating with external advisors
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of contracts, including contracts for commercial transactions, consulting and other services, business development, supply agreements, R&D collaborations, agreements with health care professionals, health care organizations and patient organizations.
- Research and advise on proposed and enacted legislation impacting pharmaceutical companies relating to regulatory matters, pharma products promotional compliance as well transparency laws, and educate internal business partners on compliance trends.
- Draft and maintain relevant and updated contract templates and playbooks for delegation of contract management responsibilities that are routine and less complex.
- Train and guide business teams on the use of contract templates, playbooks, relevant legal issues, and good contracting practices.
- Work collaboratively with others in the function to develop, implement and monitor policies, processes and procedures.
- Collaborate with others in the function seeking harmonization of legal and risk management advice and to ensure consistency and alignment with the company's legal strategy and standards.
- Work closely and manage relationships with legal service providers as directed, to ensure that the best services are provided to the company at reasonable cost.
- Collaborates with colleagues on projects for standardization and efficiency.
- Collaborate to the responsible management of the legal budget.

**Education**:

- University and master’s degrees in law and active bar membership in Spain.

**Experience**:

- Minimum 8 years of experience in legal counselling positions of increased responsibility within the Spanish legal system.

**Specific Knowledge**:

- In-depth knowledge of and ability to provide business-oriented advice regarding Spanish and EU laws and regulations applicable to the company business profile and priorities.
- Proven experience in legal roles in the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry.
- Significant expertise in all areas of pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology laws and regulations and well as commercial transactions, including those relating to promotional compliance, antibribery, antitrust and product liability.
- Outstanding ability to effectively communicate (verbally and in writing), provide sound legal advice to non-lawyers, coupled with a strong understanding of business needs.
- Advanced contract drafting and redlining skills with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and still meet high quality and timeliness standards.
- Ability to effectively select and manage outside counsel and adhere to a budget.
- Fluent level of English and Spanish both oral and written with the capacity to communicate with conviction and self-confidence.

**Competencies**:

- Excellent negotiation skills.
- Experience acting as cross-functional legal advisor.
- Highly adept at understanding and resolving challenging legal issues through the delivery of sound, clear, and practical advice.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with executives and other business partners.
- Strong organizational and time management skills to balance working on multiple projects in parallel.
- Self-directed individual who can work in a dynamic, fast-paced, high-volume environment and meet deadlines. Self-motivated, able to work independently and as a strong team player and be reliable and responsive.
- Ability to be flexible and willing to accept new responsibilities as needed.

**Values**:

- Care: We listen and empathize. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We help each other succeed.
- Courage: We challenge the status quo. We take full o