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Job Description
- Req#: 393826BR
The Novartis BioMedical Research General Legal team 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.
Location: The location for this position will be based out of Cambridge, MA and follow a hybrid working model.
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 guidelinesAbout the company
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