Legal Manager, Brazil and Local Representative Markets

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

A BMS acredita que ter uma equipe diversificada de funcionários e uma cultura de inclusão é vital para a inovação e para executar de forma bem-sucedida nossa estratégia de negócios BioPharma.  Todas as nossas oportunidades são abertas para pessoas com deficiência (PCD), assim como para as demais dimensões no sentido mais amplo da diversidade, como gênero, idade, etnia, raça, orientação sexual & identidades, habilidades físicas, aparência, religião, origem socioeconômica, estilos de pensamento e experiências de vida. 

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Global Commercialization Law Department

 

Overview:

This position will be primarily responsible for providing regulatory and commercial legal advice to the business operation in Brazil and the Local Representative markets. The role will provide legal advice and support on complex regulatory and commercial issues, assessing and managing legal risk, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, providing training and education on relevant legal matters, and responding to the legal needs of the organization.

 

Position will report to the Legal Director, Brazil, with a dotted line to the Associate Legal Director, Representative Markets. This position will not have direct reports.

Main Responsibilities:

 

• Advise Business Operations & Ensure Proper Governance and Compliance

• Review of day-to-day business operations in Brazil and Local Representative markets, including commercial, R&D, medical, market access, B&IA, and enabling functions such as finance, HR, sales force effectiveness, logistics, and the like.

• Proactive participation in all relevant initiatives of the local markets, including its evaluation and implementation accordingly.

• Support and assist in all business development activities and new projects that may arise from time to time.

• Provide timely legal advice in all areas of law and regulation to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including local industry code, if applicable, manage legal risk and prevent legal issues arising, as well as reactive support as and when legal issues arise.

• Keep the local management informed of potential liability of ongoing litigation as well as potential contingency and new litigation.

• Develop in close collaboration with other legal practice groups and offer a range of legal guidelines and trainings to assist in the speedy resolution of legal matters and ensure that commercial have access to clear concise and tailored legal advice to appropriately achieve their business goals.

• Participate as a member of the local leadership team meetings, as applicable.

• Collaboration with the Innovation Law to support the defense and protection of IP rights.

• Participation in the different legal-related working groups/committees of the local industry associations.

• Proactively obtain and refine information on external trends and challenges, to share relevant insights within the Law Department and to provide strategic legal advice to the business.

• Assure compliance from the Corporate Governance perspective of the local BMS entities in the local markets in full coordination with the Corporate Secretary team.

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Support the Law Department

• Support members of the Law Department.  Work closely with colleagues from Compliance, Corporate Giving, and other practice groups, in particular IP, Transactions, Employment, Litigation, Privacy, Corporate Secretary, R&D, among others. 

• Communicate directly and openly, contribute to seamless collaboration across the Law Department with positive, solution-oriented approach.

• Escalate issues appropriately. Share best practices and learnings from mistakes to allow further improvements.  Leverage the experience amongst the team, where appropriate.

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Manage external counsel

• Properly leverage external legal support where no internal resources exist in coordination with Legal Operations.

• Ensure that all legal services are provided in the most cost-efficient manner, and that all legal spend is managed within the budget.

• Seek ways to improve the efficiency of the department. Manage the level of spend with external counsel by regularly monitoring and reporting external legal expenses, negotiating favorable fees and doing as much work in-house as possible.

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Qualifications:

• Law degree and qualification to practice law in Brazil.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional qualified experience.
• Experience in the area of pharmaceutical industry or life sciences will be a plus.
• Experience in civil, administrative, regulatory and competition law.
• Working experience with multinational companies as in-house or external counsel.
• Experience working with compliance related activities will be a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication in both Portuguese and English

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Acting with the highest standards of professional ethics and integrity.·    
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in both Spanish and English.·    
• Excellent analytical and strategic thinking, with attention to detail and impact on broader organisation.·    
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of laws, regulations and culture in the country of legal qualification.·    
• Understanding of differing legal systems and cultures.·    
• Ability to provide accurate, clear and concise advice with diplomacy and conviction, anticipating the expected level of detail, and preparing for potential follow-up questions.·    
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.  Takes ownership, responsibility, and accountability for work.·    
• Ability to integrate, influence and collaborate with others to support speedy and appropriate decision making.·    
• Demonstrate teamwork spirit and wiliness to collaborate with others. Treats colleagues equitable and act fairly and respectful. Is open to get and give constructive and candid feedback.·    
• Ability to identify emerging legal issues and address diverging views
• Ability to recognize and appropriately confer with manager and/or subject matter experts on higher risk or other issues.·    
• Escalation and report to the manager of challenges and shortcomings within employee’s power and competency.·    
• Ability to research and provide practical advice on complex legal issues.·    
• Ability to assign work to and supervise external counsel, as needed.·    
• Be a role model in integrity and diversity & inclusion by leading by example.

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