Director & Sr Counsel II

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers.

Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.
The Director & Senior Counsel II provides a broad range of legal services, typically to Clients at the VP level who control business activities and below. The level of counseling provided requires broader understanding of the impact decisions may have on the overall business, as the risks associated with incomplete advice are high. Duties include drafting of legal documents and provision of legal counsel. The ideal candidate should have acquired knowledge of law in at least two specialized areas (e.g., patents, FDA Regulatory, commercial, litigation, etc.) critical to maintaining business operations and be very knowledgeable about the products, competitors, and regulatory environment of the company's businesses. The position holder mentors more junior attorneys in areas of expertise.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepares complex legal documents, including letters, notices, legal opinions, contracts, patent or trademark applications, court/administrative filings, licenses, corporate documents, etc.
• Often supervises more junior attorneys in the drafting of such documents.
• Expert understanding of state and federal laws, regulations, and policies in several specialized legal areas; strong working knowledge of laws, regulations, and policies in at least one other specialized legal area; ability to interpret and apply such laws, regulations, and policies to inform business activities.
• Ability to apply law from several areas to complex business situations.
• Influences clients by identifying and communicating to clients risks associated with complex business activities within lawyer's broad understanding of several specialized legal areas, which specialized legal areas may include: Intellectual Property, Regulatory, Trade, Compliance, Contracting, Environmental, Employment, Litigation and/or Antitrust; helps identify risks in areas outside lawyer's specialized legal area and provides value-added corporate law insight to evaluate risks effectively; provides training and business advice to clients on applicable legal issues within lawyer?s broad legal expertise.
• Partners with clients by considering immediate business/legal issues in a broader business context and identifying broader business purposes and objectives; proactively applies broad legal expertise to address both the specific business activity and influence the broader business purposes and objectives; developing alternative fact hypotheticals and legal solutions to clarify options and enable the achievement of successful business outcomes.
• Expected by business management to take the lead in negotiating on behalf of client to achieve solutions that attain business objectives.
• Confers with other in-house and outside counsel where appropriate.
• Advises, partners with, or engages in-house or outside counsel where appropriate.
• Manages (either directly or indirectly) administrative assistants, paralegals, and other personnel within department.
• May manage more junior attorneys.
• Mentors and/or trains more junior attorneys, paralegals, administrative assistants and/or other personnel within department.
• Takes on other departmental administrative responsibilities within the legal department consistent with the objectives of the legal department.
• Strong knowledge of national business environment in which client competes.
• Keeps current with evolving legal and business issues within lawyer?s broad expertise, promotes corporate policies and proactively monitors client?s business environment.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school required.
• Minimum eight to ten (8-10) years relevant legal experience.
• Admission to at least one State bar.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
Demonstrates discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality of information.

Required Competencies:

• Communication
• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Negotiation
• Teamwork
• Business and Technical Competence
• Decision Making
• Innovation/Creativity
• Customer Focus
• Integrity & Ethics
Directs the work of others.

Eligibility Requirements :

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.