Senior Corporate Counsel – Manufacturing, Supply Transactions and Operations

Role Overview

• Serve as proactive thought partner to M&S stakeholders in each of Sanofi’s GBUs.
• Drive legal strategy, drafting, and negotiation for complex transactions across the continuum of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations, including direct materials, drug substance, active pharmaceutical ingredient, drug product, and finished drug product across the GBUs on a global basis.
• Support M&A colleagues with expert legal advice on M&S – related topics in connection with due-diligence, definitive agreement negotiations, interim operating considerations, integration, and broader post-closing operations.
• Support BD/Licensing colleagues and M&S Alliances in negotiating, drafting, and alliance management with respect to M&S topics in connection with complex biopharmaceutical manufacturing collaborations.
• Lead advanced dispute resolution measures to transform conflicts into business opportunities.
• Collaborate with colleagues in M&S Global Functions to drive projects related to transformation of the M&S industrial network, including those related to capacity, investment, strategic sourcing, smart spending, collaborations with external partners, and optimized risk management.
• Drive optimized ways of working across the Sanofi Legal Division, M&S, Global Procurement, and Business Operations with an emphasis on standardization and simplification.
• Champion digital adoption and adaptation with focus on maximizing efficiency and allocation of resources to impactful work.
• Model Sanofi values of Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, Lead Together; Thoughtful Risk Taking; and Take the Lead mentality.

Requirements

• J.D. or LL.M. degree from an accredited law school; admission to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction
• 10+ years of legal experience supporting complex biopharmaceutical manufacturing transactions; at least five years’ experience in-house in a multi-national biopharmaceutical company preferred
• Detailed knowledge of GxP, CMC Regulatory, Standard Cost Accounting, and multi-national biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations
• Demonstrated business acumen
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to effectively partner with technical and business stakeholders globally
• Strong business partner support focus
• Strategic mindset, entrepreneurial problem solver who continuously evaluates “what could be” and is not limited to “what is”
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize competing projects, meet timelines, and navigate highly-matrixed workstreams to completion
• Excellent judgment and commitment to ethical conduct
• Strong communication skills; ability to effectively address complex issues in succinct oral and written communications
• Stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed

Benefits

• wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare
• prevention and wellness programs
• at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave