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Aspen has a proud heritage dating back more than 160 years and is committed to sustaining life and promoting healthcare through increasing access to its high quality affordable medicines and products. Aspen has a market capitalisation of approximately US$10 billion, is the largest pharmaceutical company listed on the JSE Limited (share code: APN) and rank...
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OBJECTIVE: To responsibly, pro-actively and efficiently service the legal requirements of business units within Aspen SA Commercial. To manage and minimize Aspen Pharmacare’s legal and compliance risk.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Commercial Agreements:
- Provide well- considered, practical, high quality & timeous legal advice to enable Aspen’s commercial goals whilst mitigating risk where possible, design and implement solutions to achieve legal cost saving and efficiency to the company
- Ensure accuracy in vetting, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements by:
- Identifying Aspen’s rights and obligations in terms of these agreements to ensure best outcome for Aspen
- Liaising with business partners and third parties to negotiate and resolve agreements
- Timeously collating and addressing comments from all business partners
- Manage execution process of agreements through to confirmation of filing in the Aspen’s contracts repository, subject to SOPs and ways of working agreed within the team
- Continually assess and improve templates
Social Media Marketing & Digital: (including CPA, MCA, ECTA & POPIA)
- Provide well- considered, practical, high quality & timeous legal advice to enable Aspen’s sales & marketing whilst mitigating risk where possible, design and implement solutions to achieve legal cost saving and efficiency to the company
- Mitigate risk to the business whilst optimizing efficiencies and ensuring business objectives are achieved
Legal Opinions/Legal Solutions:
- Research legal implications of relevant legislation and case law as required
- Provide opinions and recommendations on legislation/agreements/projects to business on request
- Comment on new and amended legislation and regulations
- Update relevant business areas with legislative amendments and recommend and oversee implementation of any necessary changes to policies/templates/training to empower and enable business partners on legal topics where possible
Projects/Improving Efficiencies:
- Assist in implementing projects eg POPIA that will assist in ensuring business compliance with legislation, enhance business efficiencies, better enable business
- Improving, updating of policies / templates / processes
- Keep business informed of projects by updating at meetings, having training sessions, providing templates to gather info, processing info received, providing feedback to stakeholders
- Identifying gaps in policies, templates and/or processes
- Updating, drafting and implementing templates, processes to improve business efficiencies and ways of working to optimise output in terms of quality & cost saving
Anti-trust / IP / Litigation Support:
- Be aware of and understand the implications of these areas of the law
- Raise potential litigation/IP/anti-trust matters to the Legal Counsel, with analysis of the merits of the matter and suggested solutions
- Liaise and keep stakeholders informed were required
- Take initiative to stay informed of developments in these areas of the law
Legal Reporting & Meetings:
- Take accountability to manage and track legal matters from end to end, including submission of reports to the Legal Counsel
- Submit weekly status reports to the Legal Counsel on current matters
- Log matters on iManage and keep iManage Tracker updated with matters
Learning & Development: Develop knowledge of the pharma industry
- Continually develop knowledge of the pharma industry through on the job learning and attending of workshops or other formal learning opportunities
Requirements
Skills and Competencies
- Taking full personal responsibility for management from end to end and closure of allocated matters in the shortest possible time
- Organizational, time management and planning skills in light of fluid workload and portfolios
- Problem solving, logical, analytical thinker who is solutions and service oriented
- An ability to translate business problems into legal solutions
- Robust interpersonal skills including negotiation skills, listening skills and influence
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and non-verbal
- Conflict resolution
- Decision making skills and demonstrated ability to work at a level of independence and exercise of discretion in managing legal matters
- Ability to deal with uncertainty, seek detail, take initiative and be regularly adaptable
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage support staff effectively
- Demonstrated ability to work in-consultation with relevant team and streams
- Positive 360 degree feedback from peers, external and internal business areas
- Team player with uncomplicated personality is essential
Technical Competencies / Skills:
- Advanced PC literacy on all MS Word applications (including Windows, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel)
- Verbal and written proficiency in the English language
- High legal drafting skills
- Administrative and organizational skills
- Electronic database management skills
Knowledge:
- Legislation and legal practice management
- Knowledge of policy and procedure
- General and specialist Pharmaceutical industry knowledge or exposure
- Knowledge of business including a sound understanding of the Aspen Group structure and strategy
- Good corporate governance knowledge
- Transaction/deal life cycle steps and management
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Matric / Grade 12
- Undergraduate Degree & Law Degree (LLB)
- Admitted Attorney
- 10 years working as an Attorney in a Law Firm and/or a Corporate environment
- Additional Legal qualifications / courses are a bonus
- General commercial knowledge and experience
- Experience in independently drafting and vetting legal agreements is essential
- General business experience, and specialized Pharmaceutical industry experience is a plus
- Exposure in drafting and negotiating local and international legal agreements