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Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Durham
Posted Date: Oct 21 2025

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company, the only one that is 100% focused on researching and delivering new medicines for people living with HIV or who could benefit from HIV prevention. ViiV is highly mission-driven in our unrelenting commitment to being a trusted partner for all people living with and affected by HIV. We go to extraordinary lengths to deliver the sorts of breakthroughs in treatments, care solutions and communities, that really count. We go beyond the boundaries of medicine by taking a holistic approach to HIV through developing and supporting sustainable community programs and improving access to care.

We are fully committed to push through every challenge until HIV/AIDS is eradicated. ViiV has played a significant part in delivering breakthroughs that have turned HIV into a manageable health condition. We are aware of how much is at stake for those affected by HIV and we show up every day 100% committed to patients.

As the Assistant General Counsel, ViiV Healthcare US Legal, you will support the success of ViiV Healthcare's US commercial organization, counseling on a wide range of activities critical to the commercialization of HIV medicines. You will serve as a key legal advisor to senior business leaders, enabling strategic decision-making and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This role requires exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, and a strong commitment to delivering pragmatic legal solutions in a dynamic environment.

This role will be based out of ViiV's US Headquarters in Durham, NC (RTP Area) & is eligible for a domestic relocation package. Check out this link to learn more about the thriving, diverse, and cutting edge RTP area!

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The Assistant General Counsel position will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include the following:

US Legal Support:

• Serve as the primary legal advisor for ViiV Healthcare's US teams, including marketing, sales, and medical affairs functions. Provide counsel on promotional and non-promotional initiatives, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including FDA promotional rules, healthcare fraud and abuse laws, anti-bribery and corruption laws, privacy regulations, and competition laws.
  

Strategic Partnering:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including medical, regulatory, and compliance colleagues, to support the development and execution of commercial strategies. Anticipate and advise on changes in the external legal environment to ensure organizational preparedness.
  

Leadership and Development:

• Lead and develop a team of legal professionals that includes product attorneys and a contracting specialist. Continuously improve processes for legal support.
  

Compliance and Risk Management:

• Partner with Compliance to proactively mitigate identified areas of risk in the US commercial organization. Provide clear and actionable guidance to business stakeholders on legal risks and opportunities. Help teams navigate a complex and changing external environment.
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• JD, licensed to practice law in at least one US state.
  
• 8 plus years of experience practicing law, including in-house experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
  
• Experience in US healthcare laws and regulations, including anti-kickback compliance and FDA advertising and promotion.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience providing legal support regarding provider administered medicines or vaccines.
  
• Proven experience displaying high levels of accountability and independence.
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate a matrix organization and influence without direct authority.
  
• Demonstrated leadership managing a team.
  
• Experience advising on privacy, digital innovation, and data-driven commercial strategies.
  

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Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV.

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a truly inclusive culture where we're all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at ViiV, please contact the ViiV Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or +1 801 567 5155 (outside US).

ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

ViiV does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact ViiV's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to ViiV. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and ViiV. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of ViiV. ViiV shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, ViiV may be required to capture and report expenses ViiV incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure ViiV's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/