Senior Counsel, Legal - Business Development & Corporate

Are you energized by a high-profile legal role that allows you to positively impact GSK's business and support delivering new medicines and therapies to patients? If so, this GSK Senior Counsel, Business Development role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

GSK is seeking an energetic and creative lawyer to join a dynamic legal department committed to providing efficient and effective legal support to GSK's Corporate Development team and the Business Development and Alliance Management teams within GSK R&D. The Senior Counsel, Business Development, will have primary responsibility for complex, high-profile transactions including M&A, Licensing, Collaborations, Equity transactions, and other strategic alliances with industry partners, with a specific focus on transactions involving technology, data, and AI/ML.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Advise and serve as the legal lead on the structuring, negotiation and alliance management of business development transactions, with a particular focus on transactions that involve technology, data and AI.
• Build positive, strong, and close partnerships with other legal, scientific, and business stakeholders to understand objectives, balance value and risks in transactions, and deliver strategic agreements in connection with business priorities.
• Work in a cross-functional team to resolve business and legal issues and balance competing priorities while managing legal and operational risks.
• Engage and manage external legal counsel work product and budget in accordance with the Legal Department's Global External Legal Relations Team (GELRT) principles ensuring efficient use of external legal support.
• Advise and support the Business Development Alliance Management Team on operational issues relating to alliances.
• Educate client businesses on sound legal practices and new developments affecting the business.
• Contribute to the development of GSK strategy and risk management.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• U.S. Law degree, active US bar license in good-standing
• Minimum of 8 years of experience practicing as a lawyer, including experience advising on complex pharmaceutical/biotechnology M&A, Licensing and Collaboration transactions
• Experience as an in-house lawyer serving the employer client and the Business Partner
• Experience leading a team (either directly or in a matrix relationship)
• 15% Travel (including international travel) as required

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Understanding of the use of and legal issues around Tech, Data and AI in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology fields (preferably in the pharmaceuticals/biotechnology field)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through interactions with teams, clients and third-parties, with the ability to engage proactively across a broad range of client and legal groups
• Ability to prioritize and manage projects and shift priorities quickly in line with business needs
• Ability to work collaboratively, think practically, and use sound judgment
• Scientific background (e.g., biology, chemistry)

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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