Senior Legal Counsel- Commercial and Corporate

Hybrid Work- 3 days/week from our Mississauga office

AstraZeneca is shaping the future of healthcare by expanding our global presence and harnessing innovation to make an even greater impact on society and the planet. Our state-of-the-art hub in Mississauga, Canada, is situated in a region renowned for its healthcare focus and proximity to top-tier talent and research facilities, with our new centre being set to become a cornerstone of AstraZeneca's 2030 Bold Ambition. Join us in this exciting new chapter as we build sustainable, digitally enabled workplaces designed to inspire and empower our teams to deliver life-changing medicines to the world.

Summary:

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in global commercial contract work and will support the global remit of the Corporate Legal group across a range of transactions. Whilst the focus is commercial operations deals, the role will require working in other areas supported by Corporate Legal, including business development projects.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Delivering commercial legal advice and services across Corporate Legal, with a primary focus on Global Operations and supply chain agreements to support new product launches and increased commercial demand.
• Giving guidance on complex and high value global contracts, including supporting negotiations and contract drafting.
• Advising on and negotiating a wide range of contracts, disputes, and contract interpretation, adopting a pragmatic and risk based approach to contracting.
• Providing strategic advice to senior stakeholders, including SET / SET-1.
• Counsel on corporate transactions, which might include licensing arrangements, collaboration agreements, acquisitions, and divestments.
• Proactively driving contract capability uplift across Global Operations and Global Procurement Services, including training, guidance and implementing standard processes relating to contracts and negotiations.
• Collaborating with the Global Legal group, including the intellectual property group, ensuring a consistent approach to contracting and mitigating legal risks to ensure a seamless service to stakeholders.
• Supporting the delivery of appropriate level of service from external counsel, including aggressively managing costs on matters for which external counsel is retained.
• Handling special projects, for example, to increase efficiencies.
  
  
  

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or a Juris Doctor (J.D.)
• Member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario (must retain status)
• 5+ years of legal practice experience, particularly in commercial law and manufacturing and supply chain agreements
• Experience and comfort advising on US contracts
• Experience working in a global legal environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to explain complex legal issues in an easy to understand manner
• Business oriented and pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Skill in analyzing and solving issues related to a wide variety of substantive legal areas
  
  
  

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience highly desirable
• Experience working with the following:
  • in-house in a multinational company
  • technology and/or energy transactions /projects
  • supporting CMO deals (contract manufacturing organizations)
  • supporting a Global Procurement organization
  • English law contracts and common law jurisdictions
    
    
    

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.