Associate Director
Pubblicato il 07-09-2026 - MSD UK in Roma
Job Description:
Bring your legal expertise, business acumen, and passion for healthcare innovation to a role where you will help shape strategic decisions, support compliance excellence, and contribute to improving and saving lives. Join us as a:
Associate Director - Legal & Compliance
About the role
The Associate Director - Legal & Compliance provides a broad range of legal and compliance services, support and counselling, from development through commercialization and lifecycle planning (human and animal health) that helps the Company grow and achieve its business goals. The advice given and services provided are strategic, timely, proactive, practical, cost-effective and meet the highest legal, ethical and professional standards. The position will report to the Executive Director Legal & Compliance of the Italian subsidiary.
Taska and responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Partnering with and supporting internal clients on a wide range of company business, including new product launches; support of clinical research; regulatory,
pricing and reimbursement initiatives; and all aspects of commercialization of pharmaceutical products, including sales, marketing and distribution. This support includes providing guidance on legal and compliance issues in a broad business context and identifying business purposes and objectives; proactively applying legal and compliance expertise to address the specific business activity; and developing alternative legal solutions in order to enable the achievement of successful business outcomes.
- Drafting and participating in negotiations of a wide range of commercial contracts, including procurement agreements, distribution agreements and marketing agreements.
- Advising on market access issues, compliance and company law, privacy and regulatory matters.
- Overseeing the work of outside counsels in the preparation of complex legal documents, including letters, notices, legal opinions, contracts, court/ administrative fil