Job Description

When you’re part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do exciting work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

How will you make an impact?

The Sr Contracts Attorney will be a key Legal contact for the complex and dynamic business units within the Biosciences Division (BID) and member of the BID Legal team. In this role, you will collaborate with other BID Legal colleagues, as well as Thermo Fisher’s Legal team and outside specialists to provide high quality and comprehensive Legal advice and support to the BID Legal entities, sites and businesses.

This role performs the critical tasks of drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and intellectual property agreements with large industry-leading pharmaceutical, research and manufacturing companies, research institutes and also start-ups that enable BID to develop and sell products, exploit opportunities based on technology owned by our Company or third parties, and purchase raw materials and services.

The Sr Contracts Attorney will work cross-functionally with BID’s Business Development, Licensing, Product Management, IP, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement and Operations teams to facilitate business transactions and manage Legal compliance matters and requests.

What will you do?

• Serve as central point of contact for the business units of BID and support the BID Legal team and work with other Legal team members to provide guidance to business leaders and global team members on, and address a range of, legal, operational and business issues that impact the BID businesses and sites.

• Draft, negotiate, and, if appropriate, seek approval for the execution of a range of commercial contracts, including third parties OEM and supply contracts, technology in-licenses, out-licenses, technical collaborations, joint development agreements, quality agreements, term sheets and other commercial agreements of varying complexity, as needed. Resolve commercial and other Legal disputes related to same.

• Seek and provide appropriate guidance and involvement of/to other relevant functions and facilitate the approval of the appropriate management.

• Perform analysis on legal rights, obligations, and strategies to help the Company achieve its commercial goals and objectives.

• Develop new and update existing contractual documents and constantly work with the business on improving processes to ensure efficient support.

• Respond to inquiries and advise BID employees on laws and internal policies to help ensure business planning and activities are done in accordance with applicable requirements.

• Deliver Legal training programs to internal clients relevant to business and contractual matters.

• Promote PPI (process improvement) initiatives and adopt a process improvement culture within the BID businesses.

• Support litigation, IP, M&A, regulatory, employment matters impacting BID businesses.

We are looking for:

• Demonstrated ability and experience drafting/reviewing/negotiating contractual documents.

• Experience delivering on project commitments.

• Demonstrated ability to achieve positive results through influence, negotiation, and organizational change.

• Experience advising on the legal consequence of contract terms.

• Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships both internally and externally.

• Demonstrated success working in complex organizations.

• Ability to manage time and handle several assignments concurrently.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Demonstrated proficiency with the latest MS Office products, including Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Word, Excel, and related electronic tools for editing, documenting, tracking and communicating (including remote working).

Education/ Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Law from an accredited university in Bulgaria.

• Admission to the Bulgarian Bar Association as an active member in good standing.

• At least five years of relevant commercial contracts legal experience, preferably including in-house experience, representing life sciences and other relevant regulated-sector companies in either a multinational company Legal department or relevant department of full-service law firm.

Work Schedule: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM core hours (flexibility is required to meet with global colleagues and customers). Less than 15% travel.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.