Sr Director, Legal

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Job Description
 

We are seeking an Associate General Counsel/Senior Director, Corporate Litigation & Investigations (International), reporting to the Senior Associate General Counsel and head of the Global Corporate Litigation & Investigations. The candidate will serve as a lawyer on the Global Corporate Litigation & Investigations team, advising on and managing active Company litigation, government investigations, internal investigations, and prelitigation matters with a focus on international matters.

The successful candidate will be able to work independently and will possess strong legal expertise to proactively identify, analyze, and navigate potential legal issues and risk and help to advise on the same in the prelitigation context.  The candidate will have extensive experience in managing complex litigation matters and international arbitrations.  The candidate will have extensive experience in managing government investigations and conducting internal investigations to completion.   

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as lawyer on the Global Corporate Litigation & Investigations team, independently managing litigation, investigations and prelitigation matters and providing guidance to other attorneys on the team regarding similar matters.  Experience with life sciences or the pharmaceutical industry is a plus, but not required.

• Maintain knowledge of relevant and developing case law, industry developments, regulatory issues, and external dynamics in furtherance of Gilead’s objectives.

• Proactively identify, analyze, and navigate potential legal issues and risk, and provide practical, risk‑balanced advice in the pre‑litigation context.

• Lead and manage complex litigation and arbitration matters.  This includes case strategy and day-to-day decision-making and tasks associated with case management and discovery. Review correspondence, arguments, memos, and briefs in support of litigation, arbitration, investigations and other adversarial proceedings. Assist in the preparation of comprehensive internal and external updates of litigation, investigation, and other potential risks. 

• Manage government investigations from inception through resolution, coordinating strategy and execution across internal stakeholders and outside counsel.

• Conduct internal investigations to completion, including issue scoping, factual investigation, root cause analyses and recommendations for remedial action.

·        Effectively collaborate with other functions, leaders, and teams within Gilead.

• Define, direct and conscientiously manage outside counsel.

Specific Education and Experience Requirements:

• Extensive legal experience supporting clients preferably at a multinational company and/or a reputable, highly rated law firm, or a combination of both; 

• Extensive experience with complex and high-profile litigation, investigations and related life sciences issues.  Strong, broad, and complex litigation experience.

• Investigation experience that ranges from internal investigations and government and agency requests and actions.  Extensive experience conducting internal investigations independently from initiation to completion.

• Ability to exercise judgment and independently determine and take appropriate action; 

• Ability to manage workload priorities in a matrixed environment; 

• Experience handling multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and performing successfully in cross-functional teams; 

• Able to independently handle complex matters with minimal supervision and an understanding of when to elevate issues to senior management for awareness or decision-making; 

• Proven judgment in working through complex issues, including those with significant strategic risk to the company; 

• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, strategic thinking, written communication, presentation skills, and organizational skills; and 

• Consistent demonstration of Gilead’s core values: Teamwork, Accountability, Inclusion, Excellence, and Integrity. 

• Preferred Qualifications: Licensed to practice law in European Union and United Kingdom

The role is based in UK. We are pleased to share that Gilead’s Stockley Park and Holborn offices are planning to come together at a new London headquarters at 1 Triton Square, NW1, from approximately Q2 2027. Applicants should consider this planned location change when applying for this role. Gilead operates a flexible working policy, offering a balanced approach with two days of remote working and three days working onsite.

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.  Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all  employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).  Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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