Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
This position supports AbbVie’s global Clinical R&D organization and will interact with attorneys in the Legal Division and R&D business. The position reports to Senior Paralegal II, Clinical R&D Legal.
Responsibilities
- Works independently on a wide variety of clinical research related legal work, including contract review and negotiation.
- Reviews and responds to queries related to legal sections of clinical research related agreements and Informed Consent documents.
- Maintains and updates clinical research related templates and forms with precision.
- Directly interacts and negotiates with individuals inside and outside AbbVie.
- Coordinates with AbbVie legal specialists on intellectual property and privacy law.
- Represents AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, opposing counsel or government agencies and resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal experience.
- Identifies and resolves routine legal matters in area of responsibility with minimal supervision.
- Develop knowledge of AbbVie’s Clinical R&D business and supported client areas.
- Possess strong communication skills required to effectively gather relevant information from internal stakeholders, including contract management support functions.
- Performs independent analysis of unique problems and proposes solutions.
- Escalates legal matters to attorneys and manager as appropriate.
- Assists attorneys in resolving complex legal issues on projects involving multiple disciplines within legal department and/or multiple functional areas or divisions within AbbVie.
- Maintains clear understanding of legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to clinical research.
- Keeps abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas.
- Advises legal department managers of project developments in a timely manner.
- Executes core job responsibilities in a timely manner.
- Interacts across all levels of management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree and / or relevant legal education (Paralegal certificate).
- Minimum 2 years of paralegal experience, 3+ strongly preferred, including clinical research related experience in negotiating contracts; at least one year in a corporate environment preferred.
- Excellent oral/written communication, organization/analytical and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and project management abilities are all required.
- Must be able to multi-task, analyze information, understand client needs, set and manage own work priorities and meet deadlines.
- Proficient in area of responsibility.
Salary: $62500 - $118500
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