Does it excite you to work with enabling innovation through robust contracting and legal guidance in biotech, and do you have experience with negotiating complex agreements and steering cross functional decisions? If this sounds like you, and you are ready to take on a broad area of responsibilities, then you could be our new colleague.
Your New Position
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide expert legal guidance with a strong focus on contracts that underpin research, development, and external collaborations. You will drive high quality drafting and negotiation, ensure compliance, and support critical decisions across functions. The position offers broad exposure to stakeholders across R&D in a dynamic biotech setting. You will join R&D Legal, a department within Legal consisting of four skilled and committed lawyers, and you will be reporting to Head of R&D Legal.
We Offer Exciting Responsibilities
- Drafting and negotiating primarily Clinical Trial Agreements, CMO-agreements, MSA/CRO-agreements, but also a variety of other R&D-related agreements.
- Managing contracting processes to ensure compliance and meet key deadlines.
- Ensuring clinical trials, manufacturing processes, services etc. adhere to regulations.
- Identifying and mitigating legal risks associated with clinical trials, including adverse events.
In summary, you will ensure our clinical operations and contract handling are legally compliant, risk-managed, and efficiently executed, supporting our R&D and business objectives.
Your Profile
As a person you demonstrate excellent communication and collaboration abilities. You are detail-oriented, show high integrity, and are capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. It is natural to you to be a collaborative team player with a proactive, solution-oriented attitude and the ability to effectively navigate across all levels of the organization.
- A master’s degree in law.
- Minimum of 5 years in a legal role within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
- Proven track record in drafting and negotiating Clinical Trial Agreements, CMO-agreements, MSA/CRO-agreements, as well as other R&D-related agreements.
- Strong understanding of industry regulations, research and clinical development challenges as well as regulatory compliance.
- Exceptional contract drafting and negotiation skills.
- Professional English skills
Your New Team
You will join the Legal department and be part of a collaborative team of 11 result-focused and skilled lawyers. We partner closely with Discovery Research, Development, Medical as well as other parts of the organization to enable programs and collaborations from early research through late‑stage development.
Let’s bond and be bold
We have a unique culture, characterized by excellent teamwork and strong engagement across the organization. And we want you to help us strengthen this culture.
Making bonds is at the core of everything we do. From discovering and developing the best new peptide drugs for patients, to engaging with our partners or connecting with each other. We bond through curiosity and playfulness as a team, allowing ourselves to challenge common thinking and drive future innovation. Join us and let’s bond and be bold
Interested in bonding with us?
Then please apply no later than 11 January, or as soon as possible. The applications will be reviewed as they come in. While a cover letter is not required, please include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying. For further information, please contact Luisa Nygaard at Lnygaard@zealandpharma.com or phone +45 5375 4251.
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from all job applicants.
About Zealand Pharma A/S
Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq: ZEAL) is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of peptide-based medicines. More than 10 drug candidates invented by Zealand Pharma have advanced into clinical development, of which two have reached the market and three candidates are in late-stage development. The company has development partnerships with a number of pharma companies as well as commercial partnerships for its marketed products. Zealand Pharma was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a team in the U.S. For more information about Zealand Pharma’s business and activities, please visit www.zealandpharma.com.
