Title of vacancy:Senior Legal Counsel

Location:Major Multi-national Pharmaceutical Company Based: Moscow, Russia

Salary:TBA

Job Description:

The Senior Legal Counsel will provide assistance in all matters that are relevant to the Russian operation, such as Contracts (e.g. Co-marketing, purchasing, local in-licensing, consultancy, employment, intellectual property enforcement, litigation and employee relations.
This Senior Legal Counsel, with support and direction from the Legal Head, also provides strategic guidance and training in key legal areas.
Ideal Candidate: minimum 2 years experience in a legal practice.
Proven ability to proactively provide insightful and timely legal support to stakeholders across a functionally and geographically- dispersed organization
Ideally an understanding of the Pharma industry and ability to deduce and implement the implications.
Ability to successfully work in cross-functional teams
"Get-things-done" mentality; flair for rapid, elegant solutions; avoids legal"over engineering" while fully protecting the company rights
Languages: Fluent Russian & English