Senior Counsel

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? 

At SCIEX, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.  

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.

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The Senior Counsel is responsible for providing global legal support across the organization, including quickly and effectively identifying complex legal issues raised by SCIEX business partners, researching new legal issues, and providing advice in a manner that integrates legal risk management with SCIEX’s objectives

This position reports to the VP General Counsel and is part of the SCIEX Legal & Compliance Department located in Marlborough, Massachusetts and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

•    Draft and negotiate various general and sophisticated commercial agreements (with a concentration in the Americas for commercial sales agreements);
•    Advise on and manage all other commercial legal matters that may arise in various areas of law, such as antitrust, labor & employment, bankruptcy, clinical and data privacy matters;
•    Manage litigation and government investigations with the support of local/external counsel;
•    Actively contribute to the creation and implementation of Legal Department processes and policies;
•    Represent the Legal function in various leadership meetings and actively contribute to the development and good business conduct of SCIEX Americas commercial business; and
•    Manage a team of at least one junior legal team member.

The essential requirements of the job include: 

•    At least 7 +years of practice as a US licensed attorney within a nationally recognized law firm and in-house, preferably within the life sciences industry.  Global experience is a plus.
•    Excellent academic credentials and a qualified lawyer (Bar member) in the US.
•    Experience with managing other lawyers and/ or paralegals.
•    Excellent leadership qualities, including strategic thinking capability, attention to mentoring and development of other team members, and care and thoughtfulness about team building. 
•    Substantial deal and negotiation experience with track record of leadership in executed transactions (e.g., partnership, collaboration, licensing, M&A, research agreements).
•    The successful candidate must demonstrate a positive attitude, the ability to work with others, and a desire to learn. The successful candidate must be a team player with a "can do" attitude who can work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects. 
•    To complement our team, the successful candidate must be energetic, outgoing, self-motivated and constructive in his or her approach, flexible and adaptable to work in a complex, global environment cross functionally and able to build relationships.  

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role
•    Ability to travel globally as needed, up to 20% of the time.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
•    Data Privacy Regulations
•    Software Licensing

SCIEX, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. 

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