[Hiring] Senior Corporate Counsel @Elsevier

Role Description

The Senior Corporate Counsel manages Healthcare Product Development and Transactions. They play a critical role in providing timely and effective business-minded front-line legal support to Elsevier’s health business, particularly focused on data and technology-intensive support.

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of healthcare product-related commercial agreements to meet business and legal requirements, including sales, licensing, clinical decision support/technology product development, business associate agreements, and vendor relationships.
• Working with relevant stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance including with respect to HIPAA, data privacy/security, and medical devices.
• Developing creative compliant solutions to resolve business challenges and complex customer needs.
• Educating and guiding business partners with regard to key commercial and regulatory considerations.
• Providing ongoing counseling and efficient implementation regarding corporate policies, initiatives and/or programs.
• Working with Legal Department colleagues and cooperating across cross-functional corporate business units and departments to timely achieve optimal results while minimizing risk.
• Developing and maintaining templates, training, processes and policies.

Qualifications

• Significant experience providing legal support for healthcare product development, commercial transactions, technology, and regulations (Preferred 8-12 years coupled with in-house experience).
• Sound legal and commercial judgement, with the ability to assess issues, make recommendations, and escalate with context and proposed solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in dealing with data privacy issues, ideally including HIPAA and GDPR.
• Ability to calmly and independently prioritize and execute tasks and demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
• Team player.
• Willingness to develop new skills, including interest in and openness to developing AI fluency and leveraging technology to enhance legal service delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Requirements

• Significant experience providing legal support for healthcare product development, commercial transactions, technology, and regulations (Preferred 8-12 years coupled with in-house experience).
• Sound legal and commercial judgement, with the ability to assess issues, make recommendations, and escalate with context and proposed solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in dealing with data privacy issues, ideally including HIPAA and GDPR.
• Ability to calmly and independently prioritize and execute tasks and demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
• Team player.
• Willingness to develop new skills, including interest in and openness to developing AI fluency and leveraging technology to enhance legal service delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Benefits

• Promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization.
• Appealing working prospects with numerous wellbeing initiatives.
• Shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
• Flexible working hours to help fit everything in and work when most productive.

Company Description

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice.

At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.