Senior Corporate Counsel, Life Science

Merck•Burlington, MA

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Your Role: As Senior Corporate Counsel, Life Science for the Advanced Solutions business area, you will primarily serve as a Legal business partner to the global Diagnostics & Regulated Materials (DxRM) organization, and other business as assigned. You will provide a full range of legal support for these groups, including drafting and negotiating various agreements, providing guidance to management on relevant legal and business matters, reviewing, evaluating and advising internal clients on process and operational improvements, identifying and mitigating risk, coordinating and managing outside counsel as necessary, and advising and training colleagues and internal clients on related legal issues and best practices.

Requirements

JD and admission to practice law in your location
Minimum seven (7) years of experience working at large law firm or multinational corporate legal department
Knowledge of the biopharmaceutical, medical device or life science industry
Experience in commercial contracting matters and international business transactions
Excellent communication and pragmatic problem-solving skills
Ability to interact well with senior management and colleagues in matrixed, global organization
Ability to work in a fast-moving environment requiring collaboration with multiple stakeholders
Flexible mindset

Nice To Haves

Experience with customer-facing negotiations
Experience in life science industry
Experience handling procurement matters

Responsibilities

Drafting and negotiating various agreements
Providing guidance to management on relevant legal and business matters
Reviewing, evaluating and advising internal clients on process and operational improvements
Identifying and mitigating risk
Coordinating and managing outside counsel as necessary
Advising and training colleagues and internal clients on related legal issues and best practices.