UK / DE Legal Counsel
Location: DE Frankfurt am Main/Cambridge
Department: Legal
Job type: Permanent
Join us and make a difference when it matters most!
At Mundipharma, we are proud of the work we do to bring innovative treatments to patients. We challenge ourselves constantly to deliver more for patients, healthcare professionals, our partners, and our employees
Role and Responsibilities
The primary purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive and constructive legal support, as Legal Business Partner, to internal teams and senior management within Mundipharma’s UK and German commercial businesses. This role involves representing the company competently to internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to, works council, business partners, competitors, law firms, authorities, and associations, and working to identify, mitigate and manage legal risks.
Legal Advisory and Representation:
Provide strategic, practical and solutions-focused legal advice to internal teams and senior management.
Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, relating to the UK and German commercial business activities, but also include international agreements where business need exists.
Ensure fulfillment (with input of external experts, where necessary) of required corporate secretarial actions relating to company filings, records and management of signatories, in particular with respect to the DE business.
Manage litigation (with external input, where necessary) and conduct legal research on various issues affecting the company.
Address employment disputes (with external input, where necessary) and other legal issues affecting the organization.
Provide input and advice in respect of other general and commercial legal matters as required.
Legal Oversight:
Collaborate with the global legal team to ensure provision of consistent and quality legal advice across Mundipharma’s UK and German commercial businesses.
Contribute to the review, updating, and improvement of procedures to ensure compliance with relevant pharmaceutical and other regulations, including anti-corruption, competition law, pharmaceutical regulatory, and data protection law.
Stay updated on relevant DE, UK and EU pharmaceutical law, controlled drug regulations and data privacy requirements.
Provide legal input into corporate projects and advise on other legal matters as required.
Other Legal Responsibilities:
Develop internal guidelines and template contracts for use within the UK and DE businesses, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
Conduct training sessions for employees on various legal matters, where business need arises.
Lead and participate in legal team and cross-functional business projects.
Share knowledge and collaborate with team members and functional stakeholders to ensure consistent legal advice and best practice across the UK and DE organizations.
What you’ll bring
Qualification as DE or UK lawyer
At least 2-3 years of post-qualification experience in private practice or a legal department (support UK or DE businesses.
Expertise in Data Protection Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, and Competition Law as applicable in UK and DE.
Experience preferably in the pharmaceutical industry or a law firm specializing in pharmaceutical law.
Pragmatic and solutions-focused
Confident and credible, demonstrating a proven track record of commitment and achievement.
Personable with the ability to cultivate strong working relationships across all levels of the organization
Strong influencing skills, fostering collaboration, diplomacy, and effective communication
Self-motivated and results-oriented, demonstrating initiative in goal achievement, process optimization, and operational efficiency, with a strong sense of accountability
Possesses analytical and organizational skills to effectively manage tasks and projects
Takes pride in delivering high-quality work, whilst managing a challenging workload and prioritizing work output in line with business and legal needs.
Exercises good judgement and is willing to challenge the status quo when necessary
Fluent in both German and English, both written and spoken, to facilitate effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
What we offer in return
● Flexible benefits package
● Opportunities for learning & development through our varied programme
● Collaborative, inclusive work environment
Diversity and inclusion
Building an inclusive environment where people can thrive, grow and achieve their full potential is a priority. We believe this isn’t just the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. We are on a journey and will seek to move forward together through education and awareness to build a culture that welcomes and celebrates diversity and uniqueness. We will create a workplace environment where everyone can, every day, bring their authentic selves and is treated with dignity and respect.
About Mundipharma
Mundipharma is a global healthcare company focussing on customers across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of pain management, infectious disease as well as other severe and debilitating disease areas. Their guiding principles, centered around Integrity and Patient-Centricity, are at the heart of everything they do. For more information visit www.mundipharma.com.
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Additional Job Description:
Primary Location:
GB CambridgeJob Posting Date:
2025-04-29Job Type:
PermanentMundipharma Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mundipharma and has not been reviewed or approved by Mundipharma.
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Flexible Benefits — A choice-based scheme lets people flex life insurance and income protection above core levels, indicating a tailored approach. Documented updates to benefits design show active management of options to suit individual needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical coverage and critical illness options are included within a flexible package in at least one major hub. Health-focused measures and protections are highlighted alongside core benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid sick leave, a solid annual holiday allowance with public holidays, and volunteering leave are described. Time-off approvals are positioned as supportive where operational cover allows.
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What We Do
Mundipharma is a global healthcare company with a presence across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of Pain Management, Infectious Disease and Consumer Healthcare as well as other severe and debilitating disease areas. Our guiding principles, centred around Integrity and Patient-Centricity, are at the heart of everything we do. We encourage our people to think differently and our inclusive culture of continuous learning and collaboration make Mundipharma a great place to work. For more information visit www.mundipharma.com See our community guidelines: mundipharma.com/social-media-community-guidelines
