Red Nucleus is hiring a Commercial Counsel to join our global Legal team! This role can be fully remote in the US, but candidates located or able to work EST hours are preferred.
Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic solutions for learning and development, R&D, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Commercial partners in the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of over 900 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.
At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a “Great Place to Work”.
How you Will Contribute
The Commercial Counsel will collaborate with internal business teams to evaluate operational needs against contract requisites. Review, edit and provide comment to master level and project level customer, vendor and partner contracts in a fast-paced environment to ensure compliance with legal standards while optimizing internal processes for scalability. Implement compliance policies and best practices in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. Develop and implement streamlined workflows for contract creation and approval. This position reports directly to the General Counsel.
Essential Functions:
* Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts. Ensure that contracts are in compliance with legal, regulatory and organization policies. Monitor the contract process to assure compliance with the organization's contractual guidelines, satisfaction of customers/vendors, including participation in pre-contract discussions, contract negotiations and contract changes.
* Advise the organization on legal issues concerning intellectual property, indemnification, confidentiality, data privacy, and other substantive legal matters as impacting contract negotiations.
* Collaborate with project team leads regarding contract-specific detail and escalate for approvals of contract terms to subject matter experts within the organization.
* Evaluate needed contracting from a legal perspective to ensure protections of company liabilities while supporting the project teams’ management of customer and vendor relationships.
* Contribute to team-level operations through virtual engagement toward continuous improvement initiatives and process support.
* Work in conjunction with direct line and senior management to ensure areas of responsibility are well serviced.
Qualifications:
* JD from an accredited law school.
* Active bar membership in relevant jurisdiction(s).
* 3-8 years of relevant experience.
Skills:
(except for italicized text the following skills are preferred not required)
* Strong organizational, planning, project management, communication, presentation, and influence skills.
* Strong business acumen.
* Ability to analyze legal terms and concepts in relation to the business needs.
* Excellent skills using MS Office Suite: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
* Exceptional attention to detail and ability to work simultaneously on multiple challenging priorities.
* Solid understanding of the government regulations that affect the operation of the organization.
* Knowledge of intellectual property rights and protections.
* Ability to work core business hours of 8:30 am EST – 6:00 pm EST and support urgent global needs, as necessary.
* This position is remote, but occasional business travel may be required.
* Experience in the life sciences industry a plus.
* Data privacy and compliance background strongly preferred.
What You Will Enjoy at Red Nucleus:
* Competitive pay, incentives, retirement, and income security programs.
* Comprehensive benefits and wellness programs focused on healthy lifestyles.
* Generous paid time off, employee assistance programs and flexible work arrangements.
* Performance-driven environment including professional development and transfer opportunities.
* People-first culture fostering self-expression, diversity, and a growth mindset.
* Celebrations! We love to celebrate service anniversaries, holidays, diversity and inclusion events, project milestones and anything else meaningful to our employees.
* Support of community organizations you are passionate about.
* Ongoing programs and events designed to bring our global team together.
Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
To learn more about working at Red Nucleus, please visit Careers | Red Nucleus.
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