Legal Compliance Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Pittsburgh, PA

22d

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Description: We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Legal Compliance Specialist to join our team. The Legal Compliance Specialist will play a crucial role in ensuring efficient and effective communication between our business, creative teams and our legal department. This position is responsible for pre-screening requests, managing workflows, and translating legal feedback into actionable insights for the business. This role is not a lawyer but serves as the traffic controller and translator who ensures legal reviews are efficient, clear, and aligned with business needs.

Requirements

Outstanding customer and brand focus.
An ability to respond within 24-48 hours to feedback.
Ability to effectively handle a high-volume workload while maintaining accuracy, organization, and consistent delivery of results.
Proven capacity to understand project priorities and take effective, timely action.
Bachelor’s degree in business, Law, Communications, or a related field.
Proven experience in a liaison role, preferably within a legal or compliance environment.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to recognize possible legal risks and provide actionable recommendations.
Proven ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and meet deadlines.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, and Adobe Workfront
Ability to adapt to changing legal and regulatory environments and to work effectively in a fast-paced, multifaceted setting.
Use technology-based solutions to improve efficiency and streamline workflows for improved productivity.
Excellent communication and social skills.
Ability to translate sophisticated legal language into insights.
Diligent with strong analytical skills.
College degree or equivalent marketing and brand experience.
3-5 years of experience in Marketing and/or Communications.

Responsibilities

Review business, marketing, and creative tactics before submission to the legal team.
Ensure requests are clear, complete, and framed in terms that legal teams can quickly evaluate.
Identify and flag any content that goes against guidelines or previously approved content.
Flag obvious risks or issues before sending requests for legal review to avoid non-compliant work.
Ensure the legal team’s time is used efficiently by pre-screening requests for compliance.
Prioritize and supervise the status of legal reviews in progress.
Keep collaborators updated on review status, timelines, and next steps.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, maintaining clear insight into the status and progress of each throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Translate legal input into plain language for business and creative teams.
Help interpret legal feedback to ensure teams can adjust tactics without unnecessary back-and-forth.
Maintain playbooks, SOPs and other guidelines based on past legal decisions to avoid repetitive questions.
Build templates and effective processes to reduce the legal review burden.
Act as a trusted point of contact for both creative/operations teams and the legal department.
Ensure mutual trust by managing high-quality requests and clear communication.
Coordinate and conduct training sessions for business and creative teams on legal guidelines, compliance requirements, and standard processes.
Stay on top of changes in laws and regulations passed over by legal teams that may impact the business and communicate these changes to relevant team members.
Identify potential legal risks in business operations and propose mitigation strategies.
Conduct periodic audits to ensure conformity with applicable laws and oversight standards and teams.
Work closely with other departments such as compliance, finance, and human resources to ensure alignment on legal matters.
Adhere to OHS policies and procedures and ensure a safe and healthy workplace environment.