What you'll do
Legal Advisor: Act as a senior business partner to the Group Leadership Team and functional leaders, providing clear, practical and commercially grounded legal advice that supports effective decision-making, enables growth and protects Avalere Health’s interests.
Leadership of Legal and Compliance: Leads and develops the Legal and Compliance teams, ensuring both functions have the capability, ways of working, tools and priorities required to operate as high-impact, future-ready teams.
Operational effectiveness and future readiness: Drive continuous improvement across Legal and Compliance, including clearer processes, better use of technology, stronger prioritisation and more effective business partnering, so the teams can support the organisation with pace, consistency and impact.
Contract management function oversight: create a central contract management function to offload legal ownership of contract management, setting the function up for success
Risk, governance and compliance oversight: Ensure legal, contractual, regulatory and compliance risks are identified, assessed and managed in a way that is proportionate, pragmatic and aligned to the organisation’s commercial and operational priorities
Contracts, disputes and external counsel: Oversee the approach to complex commercial contracts, negotiations, disputes, litigation and external counsel relationships, ensuring matters are managed efficiently, commercially and in line with Avalere Health’s risk appetite.
Investigations and remediation support: Support the People team and/or Compliance team with best practice guidance on internal investigations. Provide legal input on process, risk, remediation and follow-up to support fair, consistent and compliant outcomes.
Culture, integrity and business enablement: Promote a culture of integrity, compliance and sound judgement while ensuring Legal and Compliance are seen as enabling functions that help the business move forward responsibly and confidently
You will be accountable for shaping and leading a Legal and Compliance function that enables the business to operate commercially, ethically and effectively.
Your key accountabilities include:
About you
Qualified solicitor with significant post-qualification experience, ideally 10+ years PQE.
Proven experience operating as a General Counsel or leading an in-house legal function within a complex, international organisation.
Experience within a professional services, consulting, healthcare communications, agency or similarly fast-paced, client-focused environment.
Experience working within private equity-backed organisations and supporting boards, investors and senior executive teams is highly advantageous.
Strong knowledge of the legal and regulatory landscape across the UK, Europe and the US, with experience managing legal risk in multi-jurisdictional environments.
Demonstrable experience balancing commercial objectives with effective governance, compliance and risk management.
Strong commercial contracting and negotiation expertise, including oversight of complex client agreements, disputes, litigation matters and external counsel relationships.
Proven track record of building, leading and developing high-performing Legal and Compliance teams through periods of change, growth and business transformation.
Experience leveraging technology, automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve legal operations, scale processes and enhance team effectiveness.
Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to provide practical, commercially focused advice and influence senior stakeholders, including Executive Leadership Teams and Boards.
Skills Required
- Significant in-house legal experience as a senior counsel or General Counsel
- Proven experience leading and developing Legal and Compliance teams
- Expertise in commercial contracts, negotiations, disputes, and external counsel management
- Experience with risk, governance, regulatory compliance, and internal investigations
- Ability to partner with C-suite and Board and provide commercially grounded legal advice
- Track record driving operational effectiveness, process improvement, and legal technology/contract management implementation
- Strong commercial judgment and stakeholder management skills across business functions
Avalere Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Avalere Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Avalere Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as generous, including vacation, sick leave, and a year‑end holiday shutdown. Remote work flexibility is frequently highlighted as a strong complement to PTO.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Work-from-home flexibility is emphasized through a “magnet not a mandate” approach with collaboration hubs. Wellbeing resources are visible, including mental-health support networks.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-forming support and external fertility-friendly accreditation are promoted. This signals investment in parenthood pathways alongside broader inclusion initiatives.
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What We Do
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our team of 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen. We partner with our clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
