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The Senior Corporate Counsel will be a key Legal contact supporting the high-growth Clinical Sequencing Division (CSD) of Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global industry science leader. The Corporate Counsel will provide high quality strategic legal advice and draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements with leading pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, research and manufacturing companies, government entities, research institutes and also start-ups that enable our CSD business to develop and sell products; perform services; exploit opportunities based on technology owned by our Company or third parties; purchase materials and services, and resolve disputes. Support Director, Divisional Counsel and coordinate with intellectual property counsel and work with others in the Legal Department to provide guidance to the business executives as well as global team members on a range of substantive legal areas.

What will you do?

• Serve as central point of contact for the legal needs of our CSD business, including providing guidance to business leaders and global team members on, and address a range of, legal, operational and business issues that impact CSD businesses and sites.
• Draft, negotiate, and, if appropriate, seek approval for the execution of a range of commercial contracts, including Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), clinical services agreements, manufacturing agreements, OEM and supply contracts, technology in-licenses, out-licenses, technical collaborations, joint development agreements, quality agreements, term sheets and other commercial and intellectual property agreements of varying complexity, as needed. Resolve commercial disputes related to same.
• Seek and provide appropriate guidance and involvement of/to other relevant functions, such as research and development, regulatory, clinical affairs, medical affairs, intellectual property, licensing, business development, finance, purchasing, accounting, sales, product management, quality, global trade compliance, procurement and marketing, to facilitate business transactions and handle legal compliance matters and requests.
• Perform analysis on legal rights, obligations, and strategies to help CSD and the Company achieve its goals and objectives.
• Participate in diligence and integration activities relating to M&A.
• Develop new and update existing contracts and collaborate with the business and other members of our Specialty Diagnostics Group legal team on improving processes to ensure efficient support.
• Respond to inquiries and advise our CSD employees on laws and company policies to help ensure business planning and activities are done in accordance with applicable requirements and deliver training programs on risk management to our internal clients.
• Promote PPI (process improvement) initiatives and adopt a process improvement culture within our Legal organization.