Senior Corporate Counsel, Brands

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Canada and Sweden.  For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio. 

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease.  At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success.  Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands.  We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team. 

Summary of Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly collaborative, experienced legal team at an established Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company.  We are looking for experience in the pharmaceutical industry to play a key role supporting the Company’s future growth and core mission to find, fight and follow serious diseases working cross-functionally to grow our existing products and to bring our pipeline to patients.

The successful candidate can look forward to building strong relationships across the organization, “plugging into” cross-functional information flows and workstreams to understand business objectives and bringing their legal expertise and strategic thinking to proactively identify and mitigate risks in the evolving field of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.

Attorney with 10 - 13+ years of relevant pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience to join the LANTHEUS Legal Department as Senior Corporate Counsel responsible for commercial matters, including providing practical, solution-oriented legal advice relating to investigational and marketed products and drafting and negotiating contracts. Candidates should have experience counseling in-house business partners on the sale and marketing of pharmaceutical products, scientific exchange, patient support programs, launch readiness, life cycle management, customer and other contracting and other legal matters of importance to the life sciences industry. Experience counseling on market access matters and on medical devices is a plus.

This position will report to the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and will be based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

This position will serve as a primary legal contact for marketed and investigational products, advising internal groups including research and development, commercial, including field sales, medical affairs, market access, patient support, commercial operations and others, will collaborate extensively with our Ethics & Compliance team, and will be the legal contact for medical materials review as well as promotional materials review. This position will also be a key contributor to our commercial strategy and will involve advising on customer contracting, including contracting with health care professionals and other customers.

Substantive working knowledge of US Federal and state laws and regulations relating to the pharmaceutical industry, including without limitation US Federal healthcare program requirements under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Transparency (Sunshine Act) Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, US Antitrust laws and Medicaid Best Price requirements is expected, as is awareness of current enforcement trends and compliance expectations. Experience working globally, including a familiarity with laws and regulations applicable to the pharmaceutical industry outside of the US, is a plus.

Candidates for the position are required to have a JD from an accredited law school and a valid license to practice law. Massachusetts license is preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnering with and advising senior business leaders to facilitate compliant development and execution of brand strategy and achievement of brand objectives, including (i) ensuring the business is kept abreast of relevant legal developments, (ii) advising on strategic brand and cross-functional business operation plans, tactics and execution, including launch planning and strategy and associated product related offerings, (iii) identifying and analyzing risks and proposing appropriate, pragmatic, risk-based solutions to facilitate decision making, and (v) providing specific US legal advice.

Drafting, negotiating, reviewing and interpreting agreements associated with the business, including agreements with health care professionals, vendors, li