Legal Partner, R&D Transactions

Legal Partner, R&D Transactions

At Astellas, we strive to become a cutting-edge, value-driven life science innovator. This means working at the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

What sets us apart is our focus on patients, our pioneering innovation, our collaborative culture, and the passion of our talented people.

Making a positive impact on patients’ lives is the purpose behind everything we do. At Astellas, we are relentless in our pursuit of scientific progress and in tackling unmet medical needs, demonstrated by our legacy in oncology, overactive bladder and transplant and our impressive pipeline in women's health, blindness and regeneration, genetic regulation, immuno-oncology, mitochondria and targeted protein degradation.

About Us

We are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of more than 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries around the world. We are in the Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.

In Canada, we are growing to meet the exciting opportunities realized by our legacy brands and rich pipeline of innovative treatments.

We are looking for candidates who will thrive in our entrepreneurial and empowering environment where talent and leadership flourish. Do your values align with our Astellas Way - patient focus, ownership, results, openness, and integrity? Then we would love to hear from you.

From the first day in role, everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. We nurture exceptional relationships with our employees to allow them to thrive, foster innovation, and deliver exceptional business results. We work to create a culture where our people feel empowered to pursue brave ideas and ambitious outcomes, to have the confidence to be accountable for a higher standard of performance and embody a competitive and solution-oriented mindset.

Our expertise, science and technology make us a pharma company. Our open and diverse culture is what makes us uniquely Astellas.

Astellas Pharma Canada (APCA) is looking to fill vacant position - Legal Partner, R&D Transactions.

Purpose:

The Legal Partner, R&D Transactions is responsible for providing legal support and legal services in relation to certain R&D legal transactions of the Research, Technology and Manufacturing (T&M), Development, Medical Affairs, and Rx+ functions. The position holder also provides legal support and advice for other functions where required.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Providing practical, timely, proactive, strategic, high quality legal services for the Research, T&M, Development, Medical Affairs, and Rx+ functions on R&D transactional matters taking into account the global objectives of the organization and the unique and varying global, local and regional legal and regulatory requirements in a risk-balanced manner in order to effectively minimize and mitigate risk
• Providing legal and strategic support for a broad range of R&D transactions for Research and managing the strategic drafting, negotiating, and consummating a broad range of complex agreements in support of Research, including research collaborations and alliances, consortiums, sponsored research, material transfers, research licenses, HTS library exchange, consulting services, research services, CRO services, advisory boards and councils, data sharing and data licensing, investigator-initiated studies, regulatory and quality agreements
• Providing legal and strategic support for a broad range of R&D transactions for T&M, including supply agreements, manufacturing contracts, collaborations, service agreements, and other contracts. This may include but is not limited to support to business clients on (i) contract drafting and negotiations with potential business partners and collaborators and (ii) strategic projects and key initiatives of the T&M function
• Providing legal and strategic support for a broad range of R&D transactions for Development and managing the strategic drafting, negotiating, and…