Deputy General Manager - Brand Protection - Pharma (9-20 yrs)

Responsibilities:-

1. Plan and agree Anti-Falsified Medicines priorities (i.e. market monitoring, online enforcement, customs enforcement, criminal enforcement, civil enforcement), maintain visibility of Anti-Falsified Medicines investigations. Responsible for the delivery and implementation of the objectives and deliverables toward the Anti-Falsified Medicines roadmap.

2. Provide legal support for brand protection in the fight against counterfeits - for multiple product categories.

3. Make recommendations for stakeholders across the business, on issues related to brand protection.

4. Handle investigative agencies and outside counsel on litigation; focus on brand protection, IP, customs. Authenticate products as part of investigations, criminal raids, custom seizures, etc.

5. Review, triage and investigate (risk-based) lines of inquiry from multiple sources (e.g. both from internal/external stakeholders) into incidents of falsification of products. Timely reporting of such incidents as per company SOP's.

6. Ensure overall consistency on the enforcement of anti-falsified medicines operations with external stakeholders (Police, Customs, Municipality, Health authorities) undertaken. Ensure that an effective collaboration takes place, for each enforcement case, with the key internal business stakeholders.