Job Description
General Summary:
The Legal Senior Counsel provides solutions-oriented legal advice and support to assigned business functions on a broad array of strategic and tactical matters within a highly regulated environment. The Legal Senior Counsel demonstrates a high degree of autonomy representing significant risk and complexity, working closely with senior company leaders.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Advises internal clients on legal matters in a way that advances the company's strategy while addressing legal risks and protecting the company's integrity and reputation.
- Guardian of best corporate practices.
- Subject matter expert on matters within the area of accountability, staying abreast of evolving regulations and the enforcement landscape, analyzing trends and communicating effectively within the organization.
- Serves as a member of various cross-functional teams, generally comprising senior company personnel.
- Exhibits a breadth of knowledge across multiple disciplines, sees the big picture and puts legal risk and solutions in context.
- Introduces and drives strategic actions.
- Drives and contributes to various department and cross-functional governance and process improvement projects.
- Participates in various other Legal & Compliance Department projects and initiatives.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Expert knowledge of the laws, regulations and industry standards applicable to the area of responsibility.
- Significant understanding of business drivers.
- Excellent analytical and complex problem-solving skills, sound judgment.
- Outstanding ability to effectively communicate sound legal advice and influence clients, including senior company leaders, to take appropriate actions.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and independently.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Ability to drive strategic action.
- Ability to create buy-in and trust.
Education and Experience:
- Qualified lawyer with a JD or LLM
- Typically requires significant years of post-qualification experience advising on legal matters in a life sciences space, whether in-house or in a law firm, or both, or the equivalent combination of education and experience
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Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site EligibleFlex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.
We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.
Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development.
Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
