Associate General Counsel, Legal

🕒 October 6

🏛️ District of Columbia, Florida, +4 more states – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $200.5k - $398.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

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🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

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Worldwide Clinical Trials is a global contract research organization (CRO) that provides comprehensive clinical trial services. They specialize in supporting studies across diverse therapeutic areas such as oncology, cardiology, and rare diseases. With over 30 years of experience, Worldwide Clinical Trials emphasizes personalized support and customized solutions throughout the entire lifecycle of drug development. Their services include clinical monitoring, data management, patient recruitment, and regulatory consulting, ensuring precision and tailored attention for each clinical trial.

📋 Description

• Advise the General Counsel and senior leadership on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and reputational risk matters • Lead strategic legal subject-matter areas and deliver practical guidance supporting business objectives, risk tolerance, and global operations • Oversee drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex clinical research and sponsor-facing agreements • Partner with Business Development, Finance, Clinical Operations, and other stakeholders to streamline contracting processes and accelerate business performance • Collaborate with Quality, Data Privacy, Information Security, Regulatory, and Compliance teams on GxP, privacy, data integrity, and regulatory obligations • Support enterprise risk management, investigations, compliance initiatives, governance programs, and escalation of significant legal risks • Provide legal support for mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, corporate governance matters, disputes, and other key business initiatives • Lead, mentor, and develop legal professionals • Advance operational excellence through processes, metrics, technology, automation, and knowledge management

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school (or equivalent legal qualification appropriate to the jurisdiction) • Active license to practice law and membership in good standing in at least one applicable jurisdiction • 8-12+ years of progressively responsible legal experience • Significant in-house leadership experience within a CRO, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, healthcare, or other highly regulated life sciences environment • Experience supporting complex clinical research services, sponsor contracting, regulated operations, and global legal or compliance matters • Strong expertise in commercial contracting, including master services agreements, statements of work, change orders, clinical research agreements, data protection agreements, and related sponsor-facing arrangements • Working knowledge of global clinical research regulations, GxP requirements, data privacy and security obligations, healthcare compliance, and research-related contracting • Proven leadership, coaching, delegation, and change-management capabilities within a global, matrixed organization • Excellent legal judgment, business acumen, executive-level communication skills, and ability to manage multiple high-priority matters • Proficiency in English • Strong competency with Microsoft 365, legal technology platforms, workflow automation tools, analytics, and responsible AI solutions

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package depending on location • Transparent compensation and pay equity

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