Associate General Counsel – PharmaBio/CRO Services

Role Overview

The Associate General Counsel will provide primary strategic legal counsel on clinical and commercial (patient access and support, and copay programs) and healthcare regulatory matters, including US and EU clinical trials, and support UBC’s Data Privacy and other Legal team members with regard to privacy and data protection. This role focuses on supporting regulated biopharmaceutical, clinical research, and commercial healthcare services and operations, advising cross-functional business, compliance, clinical and commercial operations, EU and US human resources, information security, quality, and other stakeholders on complex legal and regulatory issues.

What You Will Do

Serve as a primary legal adviser for clinical and commercial biopharma services operations, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, real-world evidence, data management, and business teams. Provide legal support for clinical trial and commercial program regulatory documentation, including informed consent, authorization forms, subject recruitment materials, investigator agreements, trial data use, and cross-border data transfer considerations. Support privacy and data protection compliance, monitor legal developments affecting clinical research and emerging technologies, and draft and negotiate client and vendor agreements.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires a minimum of 15 years legal experience, including at least 7 years in-house experience in a clinical research organization, biopharma services, or pharmaceutical/biotechnology company. The successful candidate will bring broad clinical trial and commercial regulatory knowledge, experience with global privacy laws, and practical knowledge of EU employment law. UBC offers remote opportunities, competitive salaries, discretionary PTO, 401K with company match, tuition reimbursement, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years legal experience, including at least 7 years in-house legal experience at increasingly more responsible levels, in a clinical research organization, biopharma services, or pharmaceutical/biotechnology company
• Experience advising on global clinical trials, decentralized or hybrid trial models, real-world evidence, registries, patient access/support programs, pharmacovigilance
• Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations
• Experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, de-identification, anonymization, pseudonymization, cybersecurity, and data governance frameworks in a life sciences setting
• Experience advising on EU workforce matters, including multi-country employee relations, restructuring or redundancy processes, works council or employee representative engagement, workplace investigations, and employment litigation or dispute strategy
• Experience supporting privacy leadership in a privacy program implementation, including management of DPIAs and DSARs
• Strategic legal judgment and savvy risk assessment
• Business partnership with time sensitive/solutions orientation
• Regulatory fluency: Strong understanding of the intersection of privacy, healthcare, clinical trial, EU employment law, employee data protection, data governance, and technology requirements
• Contracting expertise: Ability to draft, negotiate, and operationalize sophisticated commercial contracts, and privacy, data protection, clinical research, and vendor terms
• Leadership and influence: Ability to guide cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and drive alignment across legal, compliance, privacy, technology, clinical, and commercial teams
• Pragmatism and accountability: Strong ownership mindset, sound risk tolerance, and ability to deliver practical advice under tight timelines

Benefits

• Remote opportunities
• Competitive salaries
• Growth opportunities for promotion
• 401K with company match
• Tuition reimbursement (after 90 days of employment)
• Flexible work environment
• Discretionary PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Paid Holidays
• Employee assistance programs
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• HSA/FSA
• Telemedicine (Virtual doctor appointments)
• Wellness program
• Adoption assistance
• Short-term disability (after 90 days of employment)
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Discount programs