VP Regulatory Affairs, North America

Family Description

Legal (LE) covers all legal business matters pertaining to the organisation and acts as advisor on legal issues involving the organisation's government and regulatory compliance. Reviews legal data and advises organisation on appropriate legal action to be taken. Demonstrates experience in general corporate matters, including corporate organisation, securities compliance, drafting transactional documents, license agreements, data privacy, risk management, and contract management.

Subfamily Description

Regulatory (REG) covers the coordination and management of all legal matters concerning competition law, data privacy, expert control, regulations, etc.

This position is a key member of the Nokia Government Affairs team with responsibility for Nokia's regulatory policy activities in North America. Reporting to Nokia's Washington Office Head, the selected individual will engage with key leaders and staff at agencies with policy and/or rulemaking responsibility, including the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce, and other bodies with responsibility for technology policy as necessary. The position will also work collaboratively with other members of the DC Office and Government Relations team as appropriate in the development of advocacy activities directed at Congress and the Executive Branch.

A significant focus of the position will be to broaden and deepen Nokia's relationships with key staff and leaders at the relevant regulatory agencies. This will include continuing Nokia's reputation as a thought leader and significant contributor, particularly in areas of technology policy and rulemakings involving deep technical expertise. The selected candidate will be responsible for working with colleagues within corporate affairs and the business groups to identify issues requiring policy and regulatory advocacy to advance company business goals and then developing the engagement strategy, advocacy, and written submissions to advance those goals.

As the regulatory lead, this individual will be the primary interface with key government and industry stakeholders and hold responsibility for managing the use of other Nokia experts to support our regulatory and policy work.

* Interprets critical internal or external business issues and develops innovative solutions that help to sustain competitive advantage.

* Defines processes and standards.

* Uses knowledge on how the job contributes to the corporate goals as well as knowledge of industry and competitive landscape to increase own effectiveness.

* Influences strategic decisions within professional area that affect the performance of the subfunction (EG a subset of a function, typically consisting of several areas with independent budgets).

* Solves highly complex or novel problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.

* Independently develops concepts to set the professional direction of own organisational unit.

* Acts as a senior subject matter expert, typically at a global or regional level, in many organisational units the most senior internal expert who serves as best practice / quality resource and is an acknowledged authority both within and outside own organisational unit.

* Often leads functional teams or projects with considerable resource requirements, risk, and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.

Key Competencies:

* Strong communication and advocacy skills directly relevant to complex policy and regulatory issues. This could be from prior experience within a regulatory authority, a trade association, a law firm representing clients with regulatory work, or a company with complex regulatory and policy issues and needs across a range of products or business activities.

* Excellent research and writing skills directly applicable to a legal and regulatory environment with the ability to translate those skills into persuasive advocacy materials and submissions to a variety of agencies and authorities on a range of issues.

* Strong business acumen and ability to collaborate across multiple organizations, identifying different strategies and targets among the groups and formulating a common set of goals for projects.

* Strong familiarity with government structure and process, particularly the key regulatory policy authorities in the United States.

* Ability to establish solid working relationships with various external stakeholders.

* Autonomous and self-driven.

Impact

Impact is primarily short term and and typically functional, departmental or small single geographic in scope through management of resources. Accountable for department/program goals, achievement and cost performance. Actions and errors will normally impact business, program, project, function. Marked contribution to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy.

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor: Independently carrying out consulting, specific functional work within a Business Unit/Geography. Assumes broad perspective. Resolves unique and highly complex problems within own discipline. Makes decisions about own and/or project work using known solutions as basis. Managerial/Supervisory: Typically second (occasionally first) level of solid line management. Effective management of resources and development/implementation of plans and processes. Interprets policies and establishes procedures. Increased awareness and influence of other functions outside of own business area. Decision making often repeated in similar manner - able to choose correct solution or modify existing solution.

Innovation

Highly independent and self directed. Develops plans, measures effectiveness. Assesses customer relationships and service levels. Can develop and implement complex and innovative concepts. Problems require searching and selecting. Anticipates problems, seeks opportunities. Models creative and innovative work methods.

Communication

Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, which may include external customers or vendors depending upon the job function. Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures. Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset. Works to influence others to accept job function's view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires influencing others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures, e.g. by expressing complex information in an engaging and inspiring manner.

Knowledge & Experience

Management Experience / Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice within a function. Expert in more than one area, broad perspective.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree required. Legal degree and prior experience in a regulatory affairs or legal role strongly preferred.
• At least six years of experience formulating policy recommendations and communicating them to external government stakeholders, particularly agencies with rulemaking and enforcement authorities. Prior work in technology issues or with the Federal Communications Commission, or Department of Commerce is highly desirable.
• Key issues areas include spectrum policy including allocation and related issues, cybersecurity, supply chain rules and localization policies such as Buy America, export controls and government funding programs. Prior exposure and work in one or more of these areas is desirable.

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.
We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D - Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program