Arlington Heights, IL, 60004, USA
1 day ago
Senior Counsel Pharmaceutical Diagnostics
**Job Description Summary** The Pharmaceutical Diagnostics division of GE HealthCare is searching for a dynamic Senior Counsel to join its legal team. You will provide legal support, strategic legal and compliance advice, guidance, and counsel on issues involving the research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical diagnostics, including companion diagnostics, in the United States and Canada. The Senior Counsel will be a member of the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics Legal function, reporting to the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics Managing Counsel for the United States and Canada. This is an exciting opportunity to become a trusted legal partner to the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics business at a pivotal time for GE HealthCare. GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world. **Job Description** **Roles and Responsibilities:** + Support research, development, marketing, promotion, and commercialization of pharmaceutical diagnostics, including companion diagnostics, as the senior counsel for the region. + Apply combined business and legal judgment to proposed deals, relationships, and other issues requiring legal or compliance attention. + Advise the business on advertising/promotional, commercial, compliance, regulatory, privacy, antitrust and other matters. + Support business development activities focusing on agreements for co-development, co-promotion, and/or licensing projects. + Draft, review, and negotiate strategic business agreements and transactions. + Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts, license, sourcing, and other agreements. + Provide legal and compliance advice and training, in close collaboration with the compliance team. + Ensure consistent application of local commercial and compliance policies and procedures throughout the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics business via sound partnering with the business. + Support the management of disputes, litigation, and similar matters involving Pharmaceutical Diagnostics products. + Collaborate with regional legal and compliance colleagues and subject matters experts to analyze and advise the business on complex legal/compliance issues that arise out of Pharmaceutical Diagnostics operations. + Manage outside counsel. + Coordinate with Pharmaceutical Diagnostics General Counsel and regional counsels as needed, on global projects. **Required Qualifications:** + JD and bar admission. + At least 7 years of relevant law experience at a large law firm or corporate legal department. + Previous exposure and relevant experience in the Pharma/Life Sciences/Healthcare sector with ability, experience, confidence and influencing skills needed to advise the business at the leadership level. + Experience with US healthcare/pharma industry statutes and regulations including the food drug and cosmetic act, the anti-kickback statute and the false claims act. + Demonstrated experience providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment. **Desired Characteristics:** + Previous experience in identifying and resolving legal issues quickly and effectively. + Ability to make on the spot risk calls. + Previous experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in a fast-paced environment. + Strong verbal and written communication skills (English). + Excellent professionalism and interpersonal skills, with sound judgement and commitment to ethical conduct. + Business acumen and ability to provide legal advice as part of cross-functional teams. We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity. Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support. \#LI-DRJ \#LI-Hybrid **Additional Information** GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees. **Relocation Assistance Provided:** No
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