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Senior Legal Counsel-Healthcare

  • Location:

    new york, United States

  • Sector:

    Legal

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Contact:

    Sami Qureshi

  • Contact email:

    sami@phoenixsearch.com

  • Contact phone:

    +1 646-568-4046

  • Job ref:

    3923

  • Published:

    13 days ago

  • Expiry date:

    2025-04-03

We are working with a dynamic, pioneering pharmaceuticals company who would like to hire a senior health care lawyer to assist at a pivotal time in its growth cycle.  You will manage healthcare legal matters, including contracts, compliance, and litigation as well as collaborate with other attorneys. 
Responsibilities 

  • Shape, mould, and lead the legal division
  • Act as Legal Business Partner to the organisation 
  • Join an existing collaborative, personable, dynamic team 
  • Command a highly competitive remuneration package 
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Provide clear, pragmatic technical  legal and regulatory advice to the business regarding the interpretation and application of the relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Correspond and successfully build relationships with relevant supervisory authorities as required.  Research, prepare, submit and manage any relevant authorisation applications and/or submissions if required, acting as the organisation’s point of contact.
  • Responsible for the management and successful delivery of all legal and regulatory projects in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
  • Collaborate with all relevant internal and third-party stakeholders as required to review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts across multiple jurisdictions.  Ensure contracts comply with corporate policies and procedures, data privacy, security regulations, and audit requirements, and leveraging existing precedents/ practices 
  • Agreements include Confidentiality Agreements, CMO agreements, Vendor Agreements, Product development agreements, Strategic partnership agreements, Consultancy agreements, Quality/technical agreements, Distribution Agreements, and Co-Branding agreements..
  • Advise on any potential company re-organisation and/or M&A activity. 
  • Foster and develop productive relationships with key stakeholders and business units, and with relevant third-party stakeholders, acting as trusted legal advisor. 
  • Manage relationships and budgets with external counsel as required.
  • Advise and assist on ad hoc projects and issues as they arise. 
Key Skills & Qualifications:??????
  • Minimum of 15 years experience.
  • Prior pharmaceutical industry experience.
  • Relevant pharmaceutical industry regulatory experience.
  • Excellent contract drafting, review and negotiation skills as discussed.
  • Experience providing commercial, pragmatic to an organisation on a range of relevant legal and regulatory issues as and when required. 
  • Proven ability to positively engage with and influence relevant stakeholders - both internal and external.
  • Strong team-player but also self-motivated and strong decision maker.
  • Excellent attention to detail and highly-analytical.
  • Adaptable and proven ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, global environment.
  • Adopts a commercial, solutions-focused approach.
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