Legal Counsel

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

Azurity is seeking a legal counsel with 0-2 years of experience to (i) support its contract management platform by mastering the platform, assisting other stakeholders and legal team members with the platform; (ii) reviewing and negotiating (redlining) global agreements, CDAs, SOWs, amendments, etc.; and (iii) providing litigation support that entails liaising with the US global litigation team and law firms/counsels, understanding their requirements, and accordingly coordinating with various teams in India such as R&D, Intellectual Property, and IT to arrange for the required documents, information, and documents (E-discovery).

The ideal candidate would either be a fresher with experience gained during internships or have post-qualification experience of around 2 years working on Contract Management Platform, reviewing basic agreements, CDAs, SOWs, amendments, etc. Experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry will be an additional advantage, although it is not mandatory. Additionally, the candidate should strongly manage stakeholder relationship and establish effective communication to effectively coordinate with various stakeholders present globally.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Stakeholder Management

• Regularly monitoring and reviewing over all assigned tasks, being well-organized, and prioritizing the assigned tasks. Proactively understanding the business requirements and keeping stakeholders and other legal team members updated on the progress.
• Regularly attend meetings, proactively identify legal issues and highlight risks, and provide solutions to mitigate by collaborating with the relevant departments.
• Ensure all legal requirements are completed within stipulated timelines to facilitate smooth transactions for the relevant departments.
• Preemptively track all important dates and events, and take actions accordingly.
• Work closely with India General Counsel and other legal team members.

Contracts

• Review and negotiate various domestics and cross-border Contracts, CDAs, Amendments, SOWs Change Orders, etc. as per company’s SOP, checklist / playbook.
• Ensure risk mitigation, protection of confidential information, intellectual properties, and commercial interests of the organization by way of contracts.
• Inform and guide stakeholders on the interpretation and purposes of contracts related provisions.
• Identify and assist stakeholders with resolution of issues affecting completion of contracts.. Format documents for finalization. Manage the legal contracts folders.
• Gather, quantify, and report on legal department metrics.

Contract Lifecycle Management Platform

As a highly system-driven organization, Azurity has implemented and uses a contract lifecycle management software / tool, namely Ironclad

• Manage and oversee Azurity’s contract life cycle using Ironclad, ensuring contracts are properly tracked, stored and managed.
• Support the creation of contracts by gathering and vetting required inputs, including business terms from business and functional owners. Guide internal stakeholders through the contract request process. As intake coordinator, review contract requests and statements of work against
• Perform review of expiring contracts and manage renewals and amendments.
• Be experienced and well versed with contract management software / tools – similar to Ironclad (if not better)
• Provide advice and support to various departments on matters related to contracts as well as Ironclad.
• Align with legal and business team members to ensure that Ironclad is used in the most efficient manner
• Act as liaison between internal stakeholders and the legal department for timely processing of contracts. Handle status inquires, process questions, and direct inquiries to the appropriate attorney.
• Metadata abstraction and tagging into the Contract Lifecycle Management Tool – Ironclad.
• Co-ordinating with stakeholders for execution through Docusign.

General Duties

• Conduct legal issue identification, investigate factual issues, and analysis and legal risk assessment.
• Interpret and respond to requests for information, documents, and status-up-dates-from colleagues seeking legal support.
• Preparing various reports and presentations.
• Perform ad-hoc projects and general support for the Legal Department.
• Any other duties as may be entrusted from time to time

QUALIFICATIONS

• LL.B from a reputed university
• 0-2 years of relevant experience;
• Experience of supporting in-house legal department;
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Office suite; experience in DocuSign is preferred;
• Strong verbal and written communications skills to enable communication with legal colleagues and stakeholders present globally, particularly in the US, Ireland, and other EU countries.
• Ability to consistently solve problems with a high degree of independent decision-making.
• Strong organizational skills with careful attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and must be highly team oriented.
• High level of professionalism and ability to maintain absolute confidentiality.
• Ability to build business acumen and understand core elements of the applicable business area.
• Ability to handle multiple complex tasks and high volume of work in a team-based environment and consistently meet deadlines.
• Tech savvy and able to learn new skills necessary to keep pace with an ever-changing landscape.

BENEFITS

We recognize hard work and dedication with benefits offerings that address individual needs. Our comprehensive package of benefits for eligible employees includes the following:

• For a list of benefits, please see our benefits listing on our careers page at www.azurity.com/careers/

By applying for this role, you confirm that you are mentally and physically capable of fulfilling the job responsibilities detailed in the job description without any restrictions. If you have any concerns or even the slightest disability that may affect your ability to perform the job, please inform HR in advance.