Description:

About the role:
A Pharmaceuticals Company is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel responsible for managing all activities relating to the contractual negotiations and statutory obligations in addition to drafting complex transactions and contracts independently and provide complex and contextual legal advice and guidance (incl. training of key customers in specified legal areas) to the Disease Area Heads and Translational Medicine Clinical business for General Medicine and Oncology.

What you will be doing:

Independently manage legal work streams for research collaborations, human tissue work, NIH contracts, Global Health projects and clinical agreements with functional and divisional stakeholders.
Define transaction objectives with project leads and other stakeholders and develop and implement project plans to achieve them, including timelines, reporting and key deliverables
Take direct responsibility for legal advice and documentation and related work streams on trans-actions, including structuring, due diligence, signing, closing and post-closing/integration activities
Drive robust due diligence processes, including external legal support, to identify, assess and communicate legal, regulatory and ethical obligations and to propose and implement appropriate risk mitigation
Work with research, clinical and regulatory and other business colleagues to ensure appropriate aspects of transactions is completed and addressed in the contracts
Review, draft and negotiate transaction documentation to achieve transaction objectives based on legal and regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures
Communicate and make recommendations to the research and clinical functional heads proactively
Support the transition of closed transactions to responsible functional, divisional and integration/separation teams
Proactively contribute to the development of a best-in-class transactions team at Novartis and initiatives to improve Novartis Legal
Manage external legal counsel, including negotiating statements of work, setting and monitoring budgets and ensuring compliance with Novartis external counsel guidelines

Role Requirements
What you will bring to the role:
Education:

Law (JD degree) from an accredited law school required.
Admitted to practice in a State in the US (e.g., MA) required.
Must be able to draft complex legal documents and negotiate in English

Experience:

Minimum 6+ years of relevant transactional / divestments experience (post-qualification) at a major law firm or in-house
Transactional experience in the life sciences sector, including research agreements, clinical site agreements is required
Experience in related commercial arrangements (e.g., services and research collaborations) a significant plus
Life sciences experience required;
Strong business acumen and proven ability to work and to lead in a matrixed organization
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proven ability to work on multiple projects at any given time in a fast-paced environment
High attention to detail
Ability to work independently yet collaboratively while keeping key stakeholders informed
Team player in a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural environment, high level of flexibility

Ability to;