Legal Counsel specializing in contract management and public procurement law. Supporting internal teams with legal advice and contract negotiations in both German and English.
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
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