Senior Counsel, Legal, Business Development & Corporate

Are you energized by a high-profile legal role that allows you to positively impact GSK’s business and support delivering new medicines and therapies to patients?  If so, this GSK's Senior Counsel, Legal, Business Development & Corporate role would be an exciting opportunity to explore.

GSK is seeking an energetic and creative lawyer to join a dynamic legal department committed to providing efficient and effective legal support to GSK’s Corporate Development team and the Business Development and Alliance Management teams within GSK R&D.  You will be primary responsibility for complex, high-profile transactions including M&A, Licensing, Collaborations, Equity transactions, and other strategic alliances with industry partners, with a specific focus on transactions involving technology, data, and AI/ML. 

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. 

These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Advise and serve as the legal lead on the structuring, negotiation and alliance management of business development transactions, with a particular focus on transactions that involve technology, data and AI.

• Build positive, strong, and close partnerships with other legal, scientific, and business stakeholders to understand objectives, balance value and risks in transactions, and deliver strategic agreements in connection with business priorities.

• Work in a cross-functional team to resolve business and legal issues and balance competing priorities while managing legal and operational risks.

• Engage and manage external legal counsel work product and budget in accordance with the Legal Department’s Global External Legal Relations Team (GELRT) principles ensuring efficient use of external legal support.

• Advise and support the Business Development Alliance Management Team on operational issues relating to alliances.

• Educate client businesses on sound legal practices and new developments affecting the business.

• Contribute to the development of GSK strategy and risk management

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• U.S. Law degree, active US bar license in good standing

• At least 8 years of experience practicing as a lawyer, including significant experience advising on complex pharmaceutical/biotechnology M&A, Licensing and Collaboration transactions

• Experience as an in-house lawyer serving the employer client and the Business Partner (preferably in the pharmaceuticals/biotechnology field)

• Experience leading a team (either directly or in a matrix relationship)

• Willingness and ability to travel (including international travel) as required

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Understanding of the use of and legal issues around Tech, Data and AI in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology fields

• Ability to prioritize and manage projects and shift priorities quickly in line with business needs

• Ability to work collaboratively, think practically, and use sound judgment

• Scientific background (e.g., biology, chemistry)

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through interactions with teams, clients and third parties, with the ability to engage proactively across a broad range of client and legal groups.

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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