Legal & Compliance Intern

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The Position

Internship Summary:

The APAC Established Products Squad (EPS) is a location-agnostic squad composed of members from affiliates throughout the APAC region. The EP Squad is accountable for managing the EP portfolio of products in partnered affiliates.

The Legal & Compliance Partner is a pivotal role within EPS. It is responsible for driving corporate and healthcare compliance excellence and ensuring a consistent and efficient approach to developing enterprise solutions that can be scaled to support other region-wide business models (e.g., DAN).

The outcome of this gig/internship is to determine the applicable business models and how the contractual documents of those models are implemented across the APAC region. This will enable the EP Squad to develop a “heat map” to determine the areas of prioritization and to study the possibility of standardization of contracts with various stakeholders and/or partners in the region. The work will also embed compliance in all aspects of EPS commercial operations, encouraging a culture of integrity and ethical business practices to enable EPS to operate more effectively as an integrated, enterprise-focused squad.

Principle Responsibilities:

As a Legal & Compliance Intern:

• Support the review and assessment of existing contracts, ensuring adherence to timelines for new and existing business partners
• Identify and manage compliance, commercial and legal risks and issues and work to build and deliver sound legal (and commercial) proposals that meet EPS’ goals and protect EPS’ risk/liability levels, reputation and financial interests
• Assess and review healthcare compliance issues, including implementing the Business Partner Management (BPM) directive, and provide insights for informed decision-making
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive legal and healthcare compliance management framework for EPS catering to various business models across APAC
• Perform legal and compliance gap analyses and associated risk assessments, including those related to Business Partner due diligence and performance
• Deliver internal messaging and resources to promote understanding of healthcare compliance obligations, including BPM requirements
• Drive a culture of compliance within EPS, emphasizing responsible management of business partners and the downstream value chain
• Lead continuous improvement for transformational thinking in EPS compliance and business partner management
• Partner mindfully with Affiliates and external parties to leverage best practices and co-create risk-mitigation solutions, laying the foundation for future EPS Legal & Compliance processes.
  
  

As an EP Squad Member:

• Together with other EP squad and network members, define short and mid-term EPS outcomes in alignment with EPS vision, long-term outcomes and Roche 2030 vision
• Proactively contribute to the achievement of defined EPS outcomes and linked success metrics
• Actively participate and contribute to the squad practice of self-management and self-authored learning to accelerate growth and foster high-performance culture.
• Proactively share knowledge by adopting defined systems and forums for retention and dissemination
• Partner mindfully with affiliates & external parties, ensuring efficiency and transparency and never compromising their customer and business accountabilities (reputation, trust, licence to operate, etc)
• Lead Work Packages through effective communication, scope management, technical expertise, critical thinking and problem-solving.
  
  

Mindset and Behaviours:

• You constantly seek opportunities to drive value growth, adopting an enterprise-first mindset
• You strive for simplification and ultra-efficiency.
• You operate with accountability for everything you do.
• In addition, you display and nurture the following Mindsets and Behaviours in yourself and your peers:
• Proactive learning and strategic adoption of best practices fit for EPS
• Compliance excellence
• Systems Thinking
• Curious, analytical and data-driven
• Innovation, experimentation and risk-assurance
• Growth mindset
  

Experience, Knowledge, Qualifications:

• A law degree from a recognized university
• Strong technical skills and knowledge and the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to undertake risk assessment, data analysis, and crafting actionable insights for informed decision-making
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization and build collaborative relationships across diverse teams and affiliates
• Decision Making – Understands the broad context for decisions and reflects that context in how decisions are made. Capable of making sound decisions even in the face of ambiguous circumstances or contradictory requirements
• A commercial flair and an eagerness to learn from and work with the business as you will consider yourself as their partner
  
  

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.