Legal Counsel (all genders)

Job title: 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, and in-house canteen
• Capital forming benefits, holiday allowance, annual bonus depending on performance, and monthly allowance for public transportation (Deutschlandticket - JobTicket Premium)