Legal Assistant / Paralegal

Posted 13 Days Ago
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2 Locations
1-3 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Software • Biotech
SOPHiA GENETICS is a healthcare technology democratizing data-driven medicine.
The Role
The Legal Assistant/Paralegal will provide extensive legal administrative support, manage commercial contract lifecycle, ensure proper filing of legal documents, and assist in corporate administrative processes. The role encourages autonomy and requires strong prioritization skills due to competing deadlines.
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Description

Do you have exposure to legal administrative processes? Have you managed a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, Join the SOPHiA GENETICS Legal & Compliance team as a Legal Assistant / Paralegal, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

This role could suit either someone with previous in-house experience, or a paralegal / clerk within practice looking to make their first move to industry.

This is a hybrid (3 Days PW) opportunity connected to our corporate office in Bidart, France.

As an international organisation, English is our primary business language and as part of your recruitment journey, you should expect to meet English-only speakers. For best chances of success, you should include your CV in English.  

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

 Your Mission

Reporting to the VP, Legal Affairs you will provide a broad range of legal administrative support, ranging from commercial contract lifecycle management, support on internal queries and involvement in corporate administrative processes.

  •  Overseeing the contract lifecycle process, including planning, collaboration, negotiation, execution and coordinate the signing process for contracts and other legal documents
  • Ensure proper filing of legal documents - Execute administrative and operational processes for the legal team and Keep the legal management database up to date (corporate, contracts, IP)
  • Maintain and file corporate records, including resolutions, proxies, board of director changes, annual reports, etc
  • Assist with the preparation of appropriate draft documents, including agendas, corporate resolutions and meeting minutes for board of director and committee meetings
Requirements

To be best set for success we see you bringing

  •  2-5 Years experience within a Legal Administrative role – Both practice and in-house experience is valid
  • Direct exposure to the negotiation and management of commercial contracts is needed.
  • Capable of working autonomously across a broad range of matters, and comfortable prioritising with competing deadlines
  • Full fluency (written & spoken) in English is required.
  • As a public organisation facing ongoing commercial growth, you will bring a success-orientated and solutions-focused mindset that embraces team collaborations, change, growth and inclusion.


As an international organisation, English is our primary business language and as part of your recruitment journey, you should expect to meet English-only speakers. For best chances of success, you should include your CV in English. Unfortunately, non-English CVs have a high likelihood of being rejected at application stage.

Benefits

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.


Business recognition and accolades include: 

  • World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
  • World's smartest companies (Top 50) 
  • 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 
  • Top 10 European Tech Startup
  • Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
  • Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch


Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview of benefits in France.

  •  Forfait-Jour working types
  • Health benefits for you and your family covered by 80% employer contributions
  • Life Insurance and pensions contribution
  • SWILE meal vouchers and home office allowances
  • 25 Days Vacation
  • Additional voluntary benefits including sports allowance, language courses, bank partnerships and transportation.


Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous. 


Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.

We decide; We do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal.


The Process 

Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. 

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value and expertise external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilise agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.


Starting Date: ASAP 

Location: Bidart, FR (Preference) Rolle, CH (Possible)

Contract: Permanent, Full time, Office-Hybrid (3 Days PW)

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
450 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is a healthcare technology company dedicated to establishing the practice of data-driven medicine as the standard of care and for life sciences research. It is the creator of the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, a cloud-based SaaS platform capable of analyzing data and generating insights from complex multimodal data sets and different diagnostic modalities. The SOPHiA DDM™ Platform and related solutions, products and services are currently used by more than 780 hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions globally.

Why Work With Us

This is not just a tech company, it’s not only about algorithms and data, it’s more than that. It’s bold, visionary, and altruistic. Democratizing health outcomes is bigger than a spreadsheet, a sale, or a line of code. It’s all of those things coming together with driven, curious people to deliver this audacious vision.

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