Associate Counsel - Vendor Contracts

Associate Counsel - Vendor Contracts

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

Assists end to end contracting related to clinical, commercial, corporate vendor contracts for products and services including but not limited to reviewing and negotiating sophisticated service agreements, Licensing, SaaS, HR & staffing agreements and other contracts, including strategic alliances, data privacy related agreements as well as various issues escalated from the business units and internal departments.

Assists in negotiations with vendor’s legal team.

Responds to and advises on legal related requests and inquiries from business teams and drafts Legal documents

Strong communicator – is able to professionally handle emails, messages, and calls internally and with external vendors and clients

Advises business teams on contractual matters and risk mitigation

Interfaces with Procurement, Data Privacy, and Sourcing as required to support contracting matters.

Assists in the drafting and negotiation of all aspects of direct and indirect contracts

Works collaboratively across the Legal department, including the Company’s global team of regional-based attorneys, to coordinate and drive completion of global contracts.

Desire to aid others and work as a team player in problem solving.

Liaise with other global legal members and other departments to provide responsive legal support;

Conducts legal research and analysis related to the company’s business.

Qualifications

JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent Degree from an accredited University

Fully Qualified lawyer

Law firm or in house experience is a bonus

Knowledge of contracts and commercial laws

Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice;

Ability to work semi-independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams.

Outstanding relationship-building skills

Exceptional analytical skills, independent judgment, and a desire to learn,

Can-do attitude, able to work under pressure, manage tight deadlines and a high volume of contracts

Disclaimer

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, ma