Legal Director, Latam

**Legal Director, LATAM**

**Can be based in LATAM offices - Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil**

Join AstraZeneca as a key member of our Legal team, where we pride ourselves on being a talented, global team that’s powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients, every day. The fuel behind our evolving, rapidly growing enterprise, we’re here to help unlock the power of what science can do and ultimately have a big impact on patients’ lives.

Coordinated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise, and use exciting new technology and digital innovations, to accelerate our evolution. We do all of it strategically, looking ahead to the new challenges we’ll face and improving the way the enterprise operates today.

Astrazeneca is a place where no two days are the same. It requires a combination of resilience, a can-do demeanour and intellectual rigor. We are considered, but when we move, we move quickly and confidently. Never afraid to be hands-on in our sophisticated, digitally evolving environment.

Reporting directly to our AVP LATAM, the Legal Director works independently under high-level direction, to identify legal risks and develop and implement legal strategy while equally providing intentional legal counsel.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Reviews activity in Legal across regions and practice areas to identify and implement the low cost flexible sourcing and delivery solutions, consistent with the management of legal risk
- Ensures that specialist and transactional services are delivered to benchmarked cost and service level agreements
- Identifies and drives accountability with group functional strategy, policies and standards across the hybrid Legal organisation including US and ISMO
- Delivers continuous improvement initiatives to streamline processes
- Participates in AZ-wide initiatives to reduce General & Administration (G&A) costs, working alongside Global Compliance and Secretariat
- Identifies and drives central initiatives to deliver Legal goals
- Partners with other Senior Executive Teams (SET) areas and Global Functions to ensure effective delivery in Legal - includes Finance, HR, Procurement, IS, Communications
- Manages non-core legal services and deployed resources
- Identifies training needs in Legal, and crafts training programmes in substantive legal areas and in business mastery
- Carries out functional reporting, including rolling business update (RBU), quarterly business review (QBR), Risk, Scorecard and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Board Report
- Driving budget accountability including annual business update (ABU) and identification of budget savings
- Member of Legal Senior Management Team (SMT) and Intellectual Property Leadership Team (IPLT)
- Handling special projects assigned by the General Counsel

**Essential Skills**:

- Law degree / Professional legal qualification
- Understanding of substantive areas of legal practice
- Substantial experience working with legal department managing teams
- Experience of working in a global legal environment
- Strong Leadership Capabilities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Familiarity with Finance and Human Resources (HR) principles and concepts

**Desirable skills**:

- Understanding of the Pharmaceutical business and AZ products

**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

**So, what’s next**
- Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you