Legal Counsel, Operations

Role Overview

• Draft, review, and negotiate the full range of operational agreements: NDAs, master service agreements and statements of work with our vendors, logistics and supply chain arrangements, and data processing agreements.
• Own and develop site-level EAP and non-interventional study agreements, creating and maintaining standardised templates for site agreements used across our Expanded Access operations globally.
• Define and implement contracting standards for operational agreement types, ensuring consistency, risk-appropriateness, and scalability across jurisdictions.
• Identify opportunities for increased efficiency and team empowerment through training and standardization
• Manage the operational contract lifecycle end-to-end: from initiation and negotiation through execution, renewal, and termination.
• Partner with the Operations team on day-to-day contractual queries, providing clear and timely practical guidance.
• Support commercial and partnership agreements for our wider business.
• Collaborate with Privacy Counsel to ensure GDPR-compliant data processing terms are embedded in all relevant operational agreements.
• Take ownership of legal operations from the ground up. Assess what exists, identify the gaps, and put in place the foundations that allow the Legal & Compliance team to work at scale.
• Build on the team's reporting rhythm: a structured, repeatable way to give the General Counsel and senior leadership a clear picture of open matters, risk areas, and compliance deadlines.
• Create a foundational template and clause library covering the agreement types the business uses most, reducing time spent and enabling self-service.
• Identify and introduce the right legal technology for the company's current stage.
• Work with Compliance Counsel to establish consistent mechanisms for tracking and reporting compliance obligations and open matters.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer; admission to practice in the UK is a distinct advantage.
• 4+ years of post-qualification experience, with a strong track record in operational, commercial, or transactional contracting.
• Experience in the life sciences, CRO, or health tech sector or demonstrable exposure to pharmaceutical or clinical operations contracting.
• Hands-on expertise in drafting and negotiating NDAs, MSAs, service agreements, and data processing agreements.
• Familiarity with site-level agreements in a clinical or Expanded Access context is a meaningful plus.
• A builder's mindset: you have experience creating contract templates, processes, or legal ops infrastructure from the ground up, not just working within existing frameworks.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, international scale-up environment with a high degree of autonomy.
• Strong ability to give clear, practical legal guidance to non-legal operational stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of GDPR as it applies to data processing in operational and healthcare contexts.

Benefits

• Serve a purposeful mission: helping patients gain access to potentially lifesaving treatments
• International work environment, scale-up energy, and flat organization
• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and equity
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Learning and development budget, alongside internal knowledge-sharing sessions
• Attractive pension plan, full premium covered by us
• Hybrid work model
• Policies to support working parents
• Healthy lunch at the office
• Unlimited access to professional guidance by certified psychologists via OpenUp
• We celebrate freedom every year with an added holiday for Liberation Day on the 5th of May