Interim Group Legal Counsel

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified lawyer to join Inizio’s established and collegiate remote-working commercial legal team on an interim 12-month basis covering a period of maternity leave. The role is fully remote-based and will focus on providing a broad and comprehensive level of commercial legal support to a range of group companies within the Inizio portfolio, predominantly across the UK, Europe and North America.

This interim role is intended to provide continuity of legal support during a team member’s maternity leave.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate client and supplier contracts, ensuring a balance of client satisfaction and adequate protection for the business.
• Provide legal advice to the business and to carry out related legal work, which may include advice/work on a range of issues including data protection and intellectual property as well as some employment matters.
• Assist the business with responses to RFIs and RFPs as well as non-disclosure agreements.
• Provide advice and guidance on regulatory and corporate governance issues, such as ABPI Code of Practice (or local country equivalent), anti-bribery etc.
• Draft, review, implement and amend precedent contracts, policies and procedures, as required.
• Assist other members of the team, as required, including undertaking research, projects and reports.
• Develop strong relationships with the businesses to understand their operations and develop commercially focussed support that adds value.

Skills & Experience

• Must have excellent relationship management and communication skills necessary for negotiating with clients and other professionals to secure agreed objectives.
• Ability to thrive in a complex, fast-paced and multi-disciplinary environment without compromising attention to detail and accuracy.
• Highly organised and driven to deliver the required results.
• A team player with an ability to communicate across functional departments and divisions.
• Solid experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• Strong commercially minded judgement to work largely autonomously.
• Experience working in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry is desirable but not essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with at least three years’ PQE, ideally with some in-house experience.

About us

We help our clients navigate their clinical development and commercialization journey by connecting the best scientific knowledge, market intelligence, actionable data, technology, communication, and creative execution.

With a global presence and multiple career paths, the career possibilities are expanding at Inizio. We’re a growing global team of 10,000+ - a $1.5bn revenue business working with the world’s leading health and life sciences businesses, and we have exciting growth plans. Whoever and wherever you are, we’ll empower you with the autonomy you need to experiment, learn, and grow. We’ll make sure that you feel valued, supported and, of course, because we’re helping our clients to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives you can feel pride in your work at Inizio.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

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Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.