Senior Corporate Counsel, Product Support and Employment Law

Job Title: Senior Corporate Counsel, Product Support and Employment Law

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. 

Sanofi is seeking an experienced lawyer to join the North American Legal Department at its Cambridge, Massachusetts office location, responsible for supporting investigational and marketed assets managed by Sanofi’s Specialty Care Business Unit, as well as manage Sanofi’s US employment-related claims and litigations. This is a broad business lawyering role that includes strategic, transactional and litigation counseling and management. The Senior Corporate Counsel will need to be confident and comfortable with senior decision makers and be able to work independently across Sanofi at multiple levels.  The Senior Corporate Counsel will provide input on complex and sensitive legal and business issues and litigations and will advise his/her internal stakeholders in a manner that advances the company’s strategy while addressing legal and regulatory risks and preserving and protecting the company’s integrity and reputation. The Senior Corporate Counsel will be expected to provide prompt, strategic, useful and thorough input to internal clients and senior management regarding complex and wide-ranging legal matters, particularly in the area of advertising and promotion, fraud and abuse and other applicable healthcare laws.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary legal contact for assigned products and/or business units in rare disease, oncology, immunology, rare blood disorders or neurology, acting as legal reviewer for advertising and promotional materials, as well as collaborating with other practice areas and functions relating to the assigned products and/or business units. 

•  Act as a partner to the business in considering, developing and executing initiatives relating to such products or business units.

•  Manage the review and negotiation of certain contracts and amendments relating to the relevant product and/or business unit.  The candidate must be flexible enough to manage multiple subject matter issues across diverse areas of the company, taking the initiative to identify appropriate subject matter experts and coordinating overall review. 

•  Work with cross functional stakeholders to assist them with adherence to Sanofi’s policies, understand legislative developments that may impact our business, and work through direct and indirect management of both internal and external resources.  This requires a high degree of organizational skill and focus on detail. 

•  Manage U.S. employment-related claims, litigations, administrative agency charges, and pre-litigation disputes such as demand letters.  The candidate must be comfortable independently managing outside counsel, including issuing requests for proposals, negotiating fee arrangements, budget adherence, and strategy development and execution.  The Senior Corporate Counsel will be responsible for partnering closely with senior business leaders and Sanofi’s People & Culture team to achieve favorable outcomes, including overseeing negotiations where applicable. 

•  The Senior Corporate Counsel operates with limited supervision, and therefore requires a high level of balanced judgment and an ability to independently discern and establish priorities.  Agility and willingness to learn about various subject matters (both from a legal and business perspective) are highly valued.  Ability to identify potential legal issues (focusing on promotional matters, regulatory issues and fraud and abuse) as well as proposed solutions to mitigate risk is required.

•  The Senior Corporate Counsel must demonstrate the following behaviors in partnering with cross-functional stakeholders: strategic business ownership, external awareness, impact-based counseling, proactivity, innovation, and thoughtful risk-taking.