Legal, compliance and internal audit director | Roche Turkey
Soley Güzel
Legal, compliance and internal audit director | Roche Turkey
Legal, compliance and internal audit director | Roche Türkiye
Legal and sustainability chapter head | Roche Pharma Turkey
The localisation of Roche Products with a local partner and the establishment of a local production site with the latest drug production technologies.
Major external trend was the agile transformation within the organisation. All company organisations have been changed and I was one of the sponsors of design groups. During the design and implementation, integration of the agile and regulatory environment was the main challenge for the legal and compliance teams.
Our strategic priorities will be agile transformation journey, de-listing projects, localization, personalized healthcare (PHC) including data. All topics will require close assistance and early involvement.
Key is to understand business in terms of targets and company strategies.
We do not have high litigation burden. Therefore, we are manually preparing the quarterly reporting where the legal tech mostly used for have been done manually.
Instead of a reporting tool, we have initiated a digitalization project where our sales force will get digital signatures of HCPs and HCOs contracts, invitations, consents etc. via their iPads.
After the agile transformation of the affiliate, another need to implement tech solution has arised. We will implement tolls to the control points with AI for internal audit purposes.
Leaders with Legal & Compliance Backbone;
For many years it has been always considered that Legal role is a reading aid where you upload all the contracts/documents and ask for the track changed and clean version to forward to the customer, supplier etc.
Yet in time, the role has evolved from operational to strategic and support to core of the business. All prudent companies positioned their legal executives in their board not just for their legal background but also aimed to benefit from their business acumen.
In Roche, I can clearly see that, in the progress of time, legal roles have been evolved accordingly.