Legal Counsel (all genders)

At Evotec’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, we are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Legal Counsel (all genders) Full-time and permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal support for Evotec's global Commercial teams on all matters of contracts, commercial and ideally intellectual property laws: this includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating all kinds of commercial agreements (in particular Master Services-, Collaboration-, Licence-, Material Transfer-, Consultancy-, Confidentiality Agreements and other types of Life Sciences contracts
• Prepare and review contract specimen, standard templates and approval processes
• Provide legal advice and support for interdisciplinary and strategic projects
• Ideally preparation and review of standard operating procedures, policies, contract templates and contribute to process improvement initiatives in the legal team
• Develop a deep understanding of the full range of Evotec capabilities and platform technologies
• Ideally managing legal trainings for internal stakeholders

Required qualifications

• Fully qualified lawyer with at least 3 years post qualification experience
• Ideally In-house and/or law firm working experience in a similar role
• Clear and open communication style to interact effectively across functional, geographic and cultural boundaries within the company and externally
• Solid negotiation skills with the ability to influence at all levels
• Self-starter who is resourceful and able to work effectively both independently as well as with a team
• Ability to handle complexity of work under pressure and meet deadlines while remaining highly organized, prioritise and manage multiple tasks, and provide high quality work
• Well-developed analytical and critical thinking skills; exceptional attention to detail with a focus on accuracy in all contractual documents
• Highly motivated attitude
• Fluency in written and spoken English and German
• Further ideal qualifications: experience in the Biotech, Pharma or Healthcare sector additional academic degrees in biotechnology and/or biomedical engineering sciences

Our offer

A position within a vigorous and exciting professional environment promoted by an open culture and a spirit of community

A diverse, international workforce with a dynamic working environment that fosters creativity, innovations and teamwork

• 30 days of annual holiday
• flexible working hours
• in-house canteen
• Capital forming benefits
• holiday allowance
• annual bonus depending on performance
• monthly allowance for public transportation (Deutschlandticket - JobTicket Premium)

Diversity

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

Evotec is a life science company with a unique business model that delivers on its mission to discover and develop highly effective therapeutics and make them available to the patients.

The Company’s multimodality platform comprises a unique combination of innovative technologies, data and science for the discovery, development, and production of first-in-class and best-in-class pharmaceutical products.

Evotec leverages this “Data-driven R&D Autobahn to Cures” for proprietary projects and within a network of partners including all Top 20 Pharma and over 800 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, as well as other healthcare stakeholders.

Evotec has strategic activities in a broad range of currently underserved therapeutic areas, including e.g. neurology, oncology, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases.

Within these areas of expertise, Evotec aims to create the world-leading co-owned pipeline for innovative therapeutics and has to-date established a portfolio of more than 200 proprietary and co-owned R&D projects from early discovery to clinical development.

Evotec operates globally with more than 5,000 highly qualified people. The Company’s 17 sites offer highly synergistic technologies and services and operate as complementary clusters of excellence.

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