Hybrid Executive Counsel – Research

at GE HealthCare

• Job title: Executive Counsel – Research
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $200,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Tech skills: Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Legal leader providing strategic legal advice for GE HealthCare research and product development. Collaborating with teams on compliance and regulatory matters.

Responsibilities

• Actively partner with Global Research and Development teams and business segment and technology teams, continually working to identify and structure strategic research and collaboration opportunities
• Promote the strategic alignment of all proposed research and collaboration projects with the relevant product technology roadmap and identified strategic research needs
• Lead and develop the company’s research and collaboration legal/compliance practice group
• Drive cross-business, global and regional engagement, involvement and interaction among legal and compliance colleagues to maximize effectiveness of the global legal/compliance team
• Consult with Medical Affairs, Clinical Affairs, senior business segment and technology/engineering leaders on legal and compliance issues surrounding company-sponsored and investigator-initiated research and collaboration proposals and engagements
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex research and collaboration arrangements and oversee outside counsel (as necessary)
• Advise on legal and compliance matters including Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Fraud and Abuse, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption, Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Data Protection, Antitrust and other issues that arise in the research and collaboration context
• Take a leading role on Research topics with respect to government relations activities, trade associations and regulatory agency responses
• Provide leadership in the research and collaboration strategic needs assessment and approval processes
• Collaborate with the compliance organization to detect, assess and mitigate research and collaboration compliance risks; promote a culture of continuous improvement; support compliance investigations and research and collaboration compliance operating mechanisms.
• Work across GE HealthCare to develop and deploy appropriate updates and training

Requirements

• JD (or equivalent) with active bar membership
• Minimum of 12 years of legal work experience, with at least 7 years of healthcare experience at a large law firm, corporate legal department, government agency or research organization, including previous experience drafting and negotiating research agreements
• Well-versed in GCP principles, regulations for the protection of human subjects and other research regulations
• Demonstrable experience operationalizing policies, helping enforce research compliance and driving culture change
• Experience in advising the healthcare industry and previous exposure to medical industry regulations (health authority/regulatory, Medicare/Medicaid Anti-Kickback, Anti-Bribery, Privacy)
• Previous experience in identifying and resolving legal issues quickly and effectively and ability to make on-the-spot risk calls
• Proven global team leadership experience and ability to function as a senior member of a management team
• Strong executive presence with outstanding interpersonal and teaming skills; able to work effectively at all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate research and collaboration issues in an easy-to-understand manner; strong working knowledge of English.
• Proven experience managing teams of direct and/or indirect reports
• Highest level of ethics and integrity

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• accident insurance
• tuition reimbursement