Senior Counsel, Life Sciences

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🕒 August 21

🌲 North Carolina, Texas – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $170k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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FUJIFILM Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1934

🏭 Manufacturing

🏥 Healthcare

Manufacturing • Healthcare • Electronics

FUJIFILM Corporation is a global company established in 1934, operating in diverse fields including healthcare, electronics, and imaging. As a total healthcare company, FUJIFILM develops a wide range of businesses in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Additionally, the company focuses on environmental sustainability through improved industrial efficiency, while also capturing and preserving memories through film and photography, enriching emotional lives and human connections.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex business-critical commercial contracts, including MSAs, SOWs, supply, development/manufacturing/services, quality agreements, and NDAs • Advise and report to senior management on legal and regulatory risks affecting CDMO/Life Sciences operations • Propose risk-mitigation strategies and develop contractual language to minimize risk • Serve as principal legal advisor and thought leader for FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies globally • Create networks with internal and external decision makers and represent Legal in executive forums • Develop long-term legal strategies and frameworks influencing strategic goals and future products/services • Partner with Commercial and Program teams on high-value collaborations and bids • Manage a high-volume, complex caseload autonomously and communicate progress to stakeholders • Provide guidance on non-contentious intellectual property, including licensing, background/foreground IP, know-how, and freedom-to-operate issues • Design and deliver legal training and playbooks • Optimize legal processes, templates, CLM, and data insights • Engage and manage outside counsel • Support dispute avoidance and resolution and provide input on corporate matters and transactions • Contribute to policy, compliance program rollout, and alignment across US, UK, Denmark, and global FUJIFILM Legal/Compliance

🎯 Requirements

• College degree and juris doctorate from accredited law school • Admitted to at least one state bar in good standing; NC admission preferred • 8-12 years of relevant experience in a corporate law firm and/or in-house legal department, in the CDMO, Life Science/Pharma, or health care field • Extensive knowledge of commercial law, contracting theory/practice, and legal design • Principal-level advisory capability, with ability to resolve critical issues with limited information and high judgment • Excellent negotiation and executive communication skills • Strong analytical, pragmatic, and customer-focused problem solving • Demonstrated work within matrixed/global environments • Familiarity with life sciences compliance topics, including data privacy/GDPR, competition, and anti-bribery • Familiarity with international contracting and multi-jurisdictional risk assessments • Proficiency with modern legal technology, including document management, e-signature, CLM, and collaboration platforms • Ability to travel 10-20% domestically and internationally • Academic honors preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision • Life Insurance • 401k • Paid Time Off • Flexible work environment