Corporate Legal Director

Job Summary: Provide legal review, advice, and support on a broad range of legal matters including strategic transactions, commercial contracting, and general corporate matters across the Pharmaceutical, medical device and contract manufacturing businesses of SMC. Provide legal counsel in the drafting and negotiation of customer and supplier documents, with a focus on business risk and compliance, while demonstrating business acumen and understanding of business objectives in the following areas.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with all business functions and senior management. Actively assist company in achieving business objectives.
• Demonstrate strategic value and competence in applying legal skills to daily corporate, business, compliance and other matters. 
• Provide comprehensive legal counsel to support contractual and commercial projects for the company’s business operations and initiatives.
• Manage an experienced team pertaining to the Commercial Legal Responsibilities (listed below).
• Provide legal counsel in the drafting and negotiation of customer and supplier documents, with a focus on business risk and compliance, while demonstrating business acumen and understanding of business objectives in the following areas.

Commercial Legal Responsibilities: 

• Development, Service, and Supply Agreements
• Quality Agreements
• Non-disclosure Agreements
• Surveys and questionnaires
• Statutory Entity Requirements
• Intellectual Property
• Claims Management
• Compliance with federal, state and local laws

Employment Legal Responsibilities (Future expansion possibilities):

• Employment claims
• Employee contracts
• Supplier contracts
• Government contracts/Visas
• Compliance with federal, state and local laws
• Policies
• Employee Handbook
• Workers Compensation Insurance Claims 

Essential Qualifications

• 5 years of general commercial transactional/contracting experience at a major law firm and/or corporate in-house legal department. 
• Experience and practical skills in commercial transactional/contracting matters.
• Excellent judgment and ability to operate in a fast-paced, legal department on a broad range of commercial and legal matters with a primary focus on negotiating complex contractual arrangements with customers and vendors, typically in connection with manufacturing services.  
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate clearly with colleagues, outside counsel, business partners, and other stakeholders. Excellent analytical skills and people skills are essential.
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Ability to act independently and as part of a team. Ability to provide solution-oriented, practical guidance in working with business management.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities, to work efficiently, to manage, and to conclude, in a timely manner, many agreements, projects, and issues.  

Desirable Qualifications

• HR / employment law experience preferred. 
• Life sciences, pharma, and FDA compliance experience preferred.
• In-house legal department experience preferred.  

ADA Requirements

• Typically sits, grasps items and performs keyboarding for frequent operation of a computer
• Stand, walk, bend, reach or otherwise move about occasionally
• Lift, move or otherwise transfer items up to 15 lbs. occasionally
• Travel by air or car occasionally

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