Senior Legal Counsel

THE ROLE: Senior Legal Counsel - Germany

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. With approximately 90,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries.

We are looking for a (Senior) Legal Counsel to join our legal team in Germany / Austria / Switzerland (D/A/CH) reporting into the Assistant General Counsel D/A/CH.

As a key member of our team representing legal, you will review, interpret and translate legal needs and requirements and effectively communicate those to the business and external stakeholders as the case may be.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to gain exceptional experience in a varied and fast-paced health-care environment.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provide legal support and advice to the business on all management levels on relevant legal issues
- Draft legal documents such as contracts, statements, agreements etc.
- Calculate and handle risks in business process and decision making
- Provide guidance and actively engage on all aspects of the business insofar as data privacy is concerned
- Ensure compliance and adherence with IQVIAs policies and procedures and statutory regulations
- Support in handling litigation
- Delivering specific legal guidance and trainings to local teams
- Keeping up with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge base of the company’s legal function

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
- Strong contract, data privacy, tech and / or pharma, healthcare experience preferred
- Good organizational, prioritization and time-management skills
- Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Excellent judgement with the ability to anticipate and identify issues.
- Ability to engage in complex problem solving with pragmatic approach.
- Strong legal technical abilities.
- Self-reliant, hardworking and results orientated
- Culturally sensitive.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

- Minimum of 3 to 5 years’ PQE in legal practice
- Experience may be gained in either private practice or an in-house legal environment or a combination of the two, but in-house experience is highly desirable.
- Qualified as an attorney in Germany (“Syndikusrechtsanwalt/-in”)
- Fluent English speaker and ability to draft legal contracts in English and German required.

We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and

Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there

We invite you to join IQVIA.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible - to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more at