Senior Counsel, Commercial Procurement

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.

This Senior Counsel, Commercial Procurement will become a key partner to support our growing transactional and procurement legal needs within AbbVie’s Aesthetics and Commercial teams. The Senior Counsel will join a team of experienced attorneys and paralegals and will provide valuable legal support in negotiating complex agreements for the purchase of goods, services, media/advertising, and emerging technologies. In this role, the Senior Counsel will be expected to interact regularly and effectively with procurement professionals, internal business stakeholders, and suppliers. They must be creative, strategic, and innovative while handling a high volume of matters and be focused on bringing those matters to a timely conclusion.

Primary Job Function:

• Responsible for preparing, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements and providing counsel in various substantive areas of commercial law, including advertising and media purchases (including digital and social media), Information Technology, market research, patient services, professional services and consulting, talent, sponsorships, influencers, compliance, privacy, licensing, and healthcare.
• Responsible for managing and providing legal support and counsel on a variety of commercial business transactions and supplier issues for the Aesthetics, Commercial, and other procurement teams.
• Responsible for effectively managing dedicated paralegal, external counsel, and contract attorney activity.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Takes ownership of matters and projects.
• Identifies legal issues for assigned matters and resolves those matters in a timely and practical manner.
• Assists other attorneys and stakeholders in resolving legal issues on cross-functional projects.
• Develops knowledge of AbbVie’s business and client concerns.
• Keeps abreast of changes in the law.
• Represents AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, and competitors.
• Resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal expertise.
• Helps select and direct work of outside counsel.
• Manages and mentors less experienced attorneys and paralegals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidates must possess JD degree and state bar certification.
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in corporate or general transactional law or litigation with a contracts background, and with a record of demonstrated success in negotiating complex commercial agreements and counseling clients on a wide range of commercial business issues.
• An understanding of legal issues related to procurement, advertising, media buys, consulting, IT, outsourcing, compliance, IP and the health care industry are beneficial.
• The successful candidate will have strong legal, analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, innovation, risk assessment, drafting, negotiating, and client communication skills.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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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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