Title:  Corporate Counsel, Operating Unit

Job Summary

West Pharmaceutical Services is seeking a business-oriented Corporate Counsel to join its Operating Unit Legal Team. This role will provide broad-based legal support to commercial and operational teams, serving as a trusted advisor on contracting, risk management, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic attorney with strong transactional experience, sound business judgment, and the ability to independently manage complex matters in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment. #LI-CT1

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including supply, manufacturing, development, services, confidentiality, and distribution agreements.
• Assist in developing playbooks, risk matrices and contracting guardrails
• Serve as day-to-day legal advisor to assigned business units, business functions and law department initiatives - providing practical and risk-balanced guidance.
• Partner cross-functionally with Commercial, Operations, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality teams.
• Support strategic initiatives, operational changes and optimization, and enterprise strategic strategy including.
• Develop and deliver proactive legal education to internal stakeholders on identified areas
• Identify legal and business risks and develop practical mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts (e.g., intellectual property, compliance, employment, governance) when specialized expertise is required.
• Support continuous improvement of contracting processes and templates to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Manage outside counsel relationships when necessary, including scope and budget oversight.
• Flexibility to serve as primary or backup on designated subject areas, fill capacity gaps dynamically based on need and support workload balancing across a global team of operating unit generalist lawyers
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

• Law degree and bar admittance or license to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 10+ years of legal work experience with a minimum 5-8 preferably combining large law firm and in-house experience.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Preferred experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, or manufacturing industries.
• Preferred familiarity with regulated environments and operational business models.
• Demonstrated ability to embrace simplification of legal processes.
• As comfortable with reading a financial document as legal documents.
• Bias toward problem-solving with a demonstrated ability to innovate and think “outside the box”.
• Learning agility and intellectual curiosity to learn new areas of the law or aspects of the business.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements independently.
• Extensive experience advising multinational clients regarding matters of legal and business importance and managing of related risks.
• Strong analytical, communication, and negotiation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Dependability, attention to detail with strong organizational and time management skills a must.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work as a team player.
• Must be able to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description.
• Able to comply with the company’s safety and quality policy at all times.

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