E5E5 — Executive Vice President
General Counsel (Chief Legal Officer)
The highest-ranking legal executive in the company, a member of the executive leadership team.
What this level means
EVP owning a major organization line with enterprise impact.
- Scope
- A major organization line
- Autonomy
- Owns org-line strategy and outcomes
- Complexity
- Enterprise- and market-shaping
- Impact
- Organization-line / enterprise
- Decision rights
- Owns a major P&L and org line
- Leadership
- Senior-most leadership of an org line
- Typical experience
- 20–30 yrs
What you'd do
- Set the overall legal strategy and vision for the company
- Executive Advising
- Board and Governance Responsibilities
- Set legal strategy
- Advise board
- Manage governance
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic visioning
- Executive leadership
- Governance expertise
- Board advisory
- Legal strategy formulation
- Corporate governance
- Legal strategy
- Executive leadership
- Board management
- Visionary leadership
- Legal strategy
- Executive advising
- Governance
- Visionary leadership
- Board management
What good looks like
- 15 or more years of experience
- Demonstrated record of leadership in the life sciences legal arena
Common titles
Executive Vice President, Legal ExecutiveGeneral Counsel
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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