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Field of work: Legal, Audit & Compliance

Posting Date: 23 Oct 2026

Role Description

Are you ready to play a key role in enabling responsible business growth in a purpose-driven global pharmaceutical company? At LEO Pharma, we are looking for a Legal and Compliance Business Partner to join our International Operations and Critical Care Legal & Compliance team. Bring your legal expertise and compliance mindset to the heart of our Italian affiliate, where your advice will enable sustainable growth, responsible business decisions and help safeguard LEO Pharma’s license to operate.

Join us in creating a future legacy in medical dermatology

At LEO Pharma, we are global leaders in medical dermatology. We have 115 years’ experience in bringing innovation to healthcare. And we are eager to do much more. Each year, close to 100 million people have a better day because of our medicines. In this role, you will be a trusted legal and compliance business partner for the French market, combining strong legal judgement with commercial understanding to help the business make confident, compliant and value-creating decisions. You will work closely with local leadership and global Legal, IPR and Compliance colleagues, contributing to a consistent, high-quality approach across International Operations and Critical Care.

In International Operations and Critical Care Legal & Compliance Department, we share a “challenge accepted” mindset and are guided by our winning behaviors of simplification, collaboration, and accountability, to achieve our goals.





Your role

As our new Legal & Compliance Business Partner, you will provide qualified, pragmatic and business-oriented legal advice for the Italian market. You will support the effective implementation of LEO Pharma’s compliance programs, including global policies and projects, while helping the organization take a risk-intelligent approach to compliance.

You will be a close partner to the local affiliate leadership team and a trusted advisor across the business. Your work will span commercial contracting, compliance advisory, risk management, privacy, competition law, disputes and internal investigations.

Your key responsibilities will include:

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- Act as a legal and compliance business partner and trusted advisor

- Participate in the local affiliate leadership team and contribute strategic legal and compliance perspectives

- Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements, providing strategic and legal advice in negotiations

- Monitor relevant local compliance regulations and requirements, assess potential business impact and co-drive solutions where risks or opportunities arise

- Advise on anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, including implementation of our third-party compliance management processes





- Provide advice on high-risk or complex HCP compliance matters and local marketing compliance topics

- Advise on privacy-related topics and competition law matters

- Support dispute and litigation handling and resolution, including strategic input on potential outcomes

- Build strong relationships across the business to strengthen understanding of legal and compliance requirements

- Support selected internal investigations in the market on an ad hoc basis

The role offers

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- A highly visible role where you will partner closely with local leadership and influence key business decisions

- The opportunity to combine legal expertise, compliance leadership and commercial understanding in a dynamic pharmaceutical environment

- A broad and varied scope covering contracts, compliance advisory, privacy, competition law, disputes and investigations

- Close collaboration with Global Legal, IPR and Compliance colleagues and the wider International Operations network

- The chance to help shape a risk-intelligent compliance culture that enables responsible growth and meaningful patient impact

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have the following qualifications:

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- Bachelor’s degree in Law, ideally complemented by a Master’s degree in Law

- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience from a private law firm and/or the pharmaceutical industry

- Strong legal skills combined with solid commercial understanding and knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry

- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with proven ability to work in a multicultural environment

- Fluency in written and spoken English and Italian

- Compl

📌 Legal & Compliance Business Partner (Roma)
🏢 Leo Pharma
📍 Roma