Legal Lead Access & External Engagement Europe (UK)

Overview

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide strategic, practical legal guidance on market access, medicines, and patient-focused priorities across Europe. You partner with cross-functional teams to support launches, access initiatives, and portfolio management in epilepsy, rare diseases, and immunology. You will assess risk, propose clear options, and align legal approaches across markets while contributing to global initiatives. This role offers influence across European markets within a collaborative, hybrid environment and a mission-driven company focused on patients.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• equal opportunity employer
• global biopharmaceutical context

Responsibilities

• Provide independent strategic legal advice on market access, commercialization and portfolio activities
• Support medicine launches, pricing, reimbursement, and lifecycle planning across Europe
• Advise on promotional materials, patient engagement, digital initiatives and healthcare interactions
• Guide on competition law, advertising, anti-bribery, and data privacy within Europe
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements; coordinate disputes and external counsel
• Contribute legal insight to European rare disease leadership and portfolio positioning
• Review market access plans for legal/compliance risks and propose next steps
• Build market access knowledge and share training across the legal community

Key requirements

• Qualified lawyer with commercial legal experience in the pharmaceutical sector in Europe
• Experience supporting medicine launches, market access, and lifecycle strategies
• Experience advising medical and regulatory teams and global strategies in healthcare
• Knowledge of digital health or data privacy (advantage)
• German language skills preferred
• Ability to analyse complex legal issues and manage multiple projects in a matrix organisation
• Strategic, collaborative, and influential in stakeholder negotiations
• Clear, adaptable communication and cross-functional partnerships

• Strategic thinking
• Collaborative mindset
• Influence and negotiation
• Compliance and regulatory knowledge in Europe
• Data privacy and digital health awareness
• Competition law and advertising rule understanding

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