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Legal Counsel managing commercial contracts and advising on legal matters in a life sciences tech company. Collaborating with teams to drive innovation while ensuring legal compliance and efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements, including confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, supply, procurement, customer, and supplier agreements.
- Support the legal team on licensing, collaboration, sponsored research, software, technology, and other more complex agreements relating to life sciences products, services, and technologies.
- Provide practical legal advice on contractual, commercial, regulatory, operational, and general legal matters, escalating more complex issues where appropriate.
- Work with business units, finance, operations, HR, external counsel, and other members of the legal team to support day-to-day legal and contracting needs.
- Develop an understanding of the company’s products, services, technologies, scientific priorities, and commercial objectives.
- Assist with legal projects, including template updates, contract playbooks, process improvements, intercompany matters, corporate support, and other business initiatives.
- Support the maintenance and improvement of contract templates, legal processes, contract lifecycle management systems, and document management practices.
- Use AI-enabled tools and legal technology responsibly to support contract review, legal research, workflow management, template management, and knowledge sharing.
- Help identify practical opportunities to use AI, automation, and legal technology to improve legal team efficiency, while maintaining appropriate standards of confidentiality, accuracy, governance, and human oversight.
Requirements:
- Qualified solicitor, barrister, or equivalent legal qualification.
- Strong PQE or equivalent transactional, commercial, or in-house legal experience.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Good understanding of contract and commercial law, with an interest in intellectual property, licensing, technology, or life sciences-related matters.
- Ability to provide clear, practical, and commercially aware legal advice.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to work independently on day-to-day matters, with appropriate guidance on new, complex, or higher-risk assignments.
- Attention to detail, discretion, and professionalism.
- Willingness to use AI-enabled tools, legal technology, contract lifecycle management systems, or document automation.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
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