Corporate Contracts Counsel

The Corporate Contracts Counsel will be responsible for ensuring that the company’s business strategies, policies and programs and activities are developed and applied in full recognition of all legal implications and risks. The incumbent will advise leaders and individual contributors throughout the business on a variety of legal, regulatory and business issues, providing advice and legal support on an array of legal and regulatory matters, including all forms of commercial and corporate contracting activity as well as policy development, risk management, and governance. 

• Lead contracting efforts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of contracts (e.g., MSAs, SOWs, MTAs, CTAs, NDAs, various vendor agreements, consulting agreements, joint development agreements, license agreements, and software licenses) to clearly and effectively codify and protect the company’s commercial goals, legal rights and obligations, and risk tolerance.
• Lead legal operations, including records management program, and support corporate projects as needed.
• Effectively manage and coach a Contracts Analyst.
• Work closely across operations, commercial (sales, sales operations, marketing), research & development and other teams to proactively identify and articulate legal issues and risks and provide practical advice through trusted partnerships.
• Provide prompt intervention to manage contractual issues and conflicts as appropriate.
• Manage external counsel to advise on technical, software, and data-related legal issues.
• Lead management and oversight of outside counsel and manage associated legal budget.
• Effectively manage the cost and quality of legal services.
• Provide accurate and timely counsel on the company’s activities, including through consultation with external counsel (e.g. contracts, marketing material review, regulatory matters, data privacy, intellectual property, etc.).
• Develop and oversee corporate legal processes including both simple and complex commercial contracting matters, corporate transactions, partnerships, compliance, and periodic management of claims and litigation as needed.
• Develop policies, forms, processes, and procedures facilitating appropriate business and legal outcomes.
• Communicate and negotiate with external business partners, regulators, external counsel, public authorities, and others, establishing relationships based on integrity and trust.

• JD. degree from an accredited law school
• Licensed to practice law from a state Bar Association
• At least 5 years of legal experience, with experience as an in-house corporate legal counsel in a commercial business environment required, particularly with experience directly advising a large sales team
• Managerial experience required to manage external vendors and an internal Contracts Administrator
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of commercial law, corporate law, business processes/procedures and transactions
• Full comprehension of the influences of the external environment of a corporation, and comfort operating amid ambiguity to balance and manage risk

The preferred candidate will have all or most of the following attributes and experience:

• Demonstrated ability to create proactive legal strategies and to negotiate and execute transactions and manage, through external counsel, any claims and litigation arising in the ordinary course.
• Demonstrated first-rate drafting and analytical abilities, strong initiative, and business and interpersonal skills consistent with the highest professional standards.
• Demonstrated ability to apply legal knowledge and insight to all parts of the business
• Proven ability to establish credibility at all organizational levels, winning respect throughout the organization.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with colleagues and clients, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to present ideas logically, assertively, and effectively.
• Facilitates consensus-building, using it effectively to resolve conflict and overcome resistance.
• Excellent client-service skills and the demonstrated ability to interact with, and effectively advise, business leaders at all levels. Exhibits a high level of confidence in business interactions.
• Pragmatic and solid judgment, thinking logically and exercising well-developed and independent thinking to produce creative and constructive solutions under pressure.
• Strategic and analytic approach to solving business legal needs.
• Extremely high professional and personal ethics and integrity.
• Creative problem solver bringing complex and sophisticated legal matters to a successful conclusion with minimal supervision. Can resolve, or lead the resolution of, critical legal issues faced by the business, with a focus on identifying and adding enterprise value.
• High level of industry, a self-reliant work ethic, and a high level of productivity and efficiency.
• Solid, self-assured contributor, demonstrating effective leadership skills and presence. Demonstrates project leadership, effectively working with colleagues to prioritize and accomplish goals.
• Ability to function and thrive in extremely fast paced and diverse startup oriented environment.
• Maintain the utmost confidentiality in all legal and business-related matters.

Metabolon, Inc., is the global leader in revealing biological insights on disease state and physiological reactions in the present time through metabolomics. Leveraging one of the world’s most diverse and rich patient data sets, Metabolon is equipped to deliver biologically relevant evidence to address some of the most difficult and pressing questions in the life sciences. Every day, our work is helping to accelerate research and product development success in the biopharma, population health, consumer products, agriculture, wellness, and academic research sectors.

Metabolon was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina with an international headquarters in Germany. For more information, please visit www.metabolon.com.

Metabolon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status prohibited by law. All employment decisions are based on valid job‐related requirements.