Senior Commercial Counsel - FTSE 100 Medical Devices Company

Our Client is a leading FTSE 100 medical devices business based in Central London. They have a very highly regarded legal team and as a result of increasing workload, they are looking to hire an experienced commercial healthcare/pharma lawyer to support the team.

This will be a senior role in the business, reporting to the Associate GC and having responsibility for the UK, Ireland and Nordics, so it is important that you are a confident communicator, with excellent experience in a broad range of commercial matters, ideally with healthcare and medical devices experience and any exposure of working with the NHS would be advantageous.

Role functions:

• Business partner to the leadership team
• Identify, manage and mitigate legal risk and opportunity in business activities in UK, Ireland and Nordics, with a focus on commercial contract drafting/review and advising on routine and operational matters.
• Legal support to functional teams (Finance, HR, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Tax, Corporate, Compliance etc) in EMEA
• Support on investigations and litigation related matters
• Support the Global Legal Team in providing legal support for legal strategy, key projects and initiatives
• Other projects as advised by AGC Commercial.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Business partner role - advising on legal strategy, support in scoping projects and coordinating local and global teams

• Proactively managing routine legal matters and being a first point of contact for legal matters within business unit
• Contract management and ensuring consistent use of template agreements within the business (including without limitation customisation of commercial templates)
• Legal support to functional teams (Finance, HR, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Tax, Corporate, Compliance etc)
• Support to Third Party Seller programme and distribution channel
• Support on litigation and investigations
• Assistance with promotional material review and digital media content review
• Assistance on Professional Education and Clinical matters
• Reporting on and managing legal fees and budget for external counsel
• Support Global Legal team in delivering the Legal training programme

Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.