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Bristol Myers Squibb - Legal Manager, Mexico, Colombia & Peru
Overview
This position will be primarily responsible for providing regulatory and commercial legal advice to business operations in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. The role will provide legal support on complex regulatory and commercial matters, assess and manage legal risks, ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, deliver training on relevant legal topics, and respond to the legal needs of the organization.
Reporting Line:
The position will report directly to the Legal Director, Latin America and will not have direct reports.
Main Responsibilities
Advise Business Operations and Ensure Proper Governance & Compliance
- Provide legal support to day-to-day business operations in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, including Commercial, Medical, R&D, Market Access, B&IA, and enabling functions such as Finance, HR, Sales Force Effectiveness, and Logistics.
- Participate proactively in local market initiatives, supporting their evaluation and implementation.
- Support business development activities and new projects as required.
- Deliver timely legal advice across a broad range of regulatory and commercial matters to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and industry codes.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks while supporting resolution of legal matters as they arise.
- Keep local management informed of ongoing litigation, potential liabilities, contingencies, and emerging disputes.
- Develop and deliver practical legal guidance and training in collaboration with other legal practice groups to support business objectives.
- Participate as a member of local leadership team meetings, where applicable.
- Collaborate with the Intellectual Property Legal team to support the protection and enforcement of IP rights.
- Represent the company in legal working groups and committees of local industry associations.
- Monitor external legal, regulatory, and business developments and provide strategic insights to the business and Law Department.
- Ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements for local BMS entities in coordination with the Corporate Secretary team.
Support the Law Department
- Partner closely with colleagues across Compliance, Corporate Giving, Intellectual Property, Transactions, Employment, Litigation, Privacy, Drug Development, Corporate Secretary, and other legal functions.
- Promote seamless collaboration through open communication and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Escalate issues appropriately and share best practices and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
- Leverage collective expertise across the legal team to support business objectives.
Manage External Counsel
- Effectively utilize external legal counsel when internal resources are not available, in coordination with Legal Operations.
- Ensure legal services are delivered in a cost-effective manner and within approved budgets.
- Monitor and manage external legal spend, negotiate favorable fee arrangements, and maximize internal legal support whenever possible.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize resource allocation.
Qualifications
- Law degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of post-qualification legal experience, preferably within the life sciences or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience working with multinational companies and/or international law firms.
- Experience supporting additional Latin American markets beyond Colombia, including Peru, Central America, or South America, is preferred.
- Availability to travel domestically and internationally.
Essential Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrates the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and professionalism.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both Spanish and English.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic-thinking capabilities.
- Solid understanding of applicable laws, regulations, and cultural considerations within the relevant jurisdictions.
- Ability to navigate different legal systems and business environments.
- Capable of providing clear, practical, and business-oriented legal advice.
- Works independently with strong ownership, accountability, and sound judgment.
- Effectively influences and collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong teamwork orientation and willingness to support colleagues.
- Welcomes and provides constructive feedback in a respectful manner.
- Ability to identify emerging legal risks and manage differing viewpoints.
- Recognizes when to seek guidance from management or subject matter experts.
- Proactively escalates risks, challenges, and issues when appropriate.
- Skilled in researching and advising on complex legal matters.
- Experience managing and supervising external legal counsel.
- Acts as a role model for integrity, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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How We Work
Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.
Supporting People with Disabilities
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
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R1607590 : Senior Legal Manager for Colombia, Mexico and Peru
