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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 certification

Minimum Training / Experience:

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in relevant legal experience in data privacy and security matters on a wide range of commercial business issues at a major law firm and/or corporate environment
  • Strong background in U.S. and EU data privacy requirements
  • Experience advising on privacy matters related to the processing of health information preferred
  • Experience with digital related data privacy matters preferred
  • Ability to write clearly and prepare professional communications
  • Detailed and rigorous legal research and analysis skills
  • Experience working with and across the full corporate structure in a matrixed corporate environment
  • Experience supporting senior business leaders
  • Experience in data processing agreements and data transfer agreements
  • Experience working with and advising multinational affiliates across markets
  • IAPP Certifications, such as CIPP/US or CIPP/E, a plus

Additional Information

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​

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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html 

US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:

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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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: i...

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