Associate Director, Lead Counsel, Enterprise Contracting Americas

As the Associate Director, Lead Counsel, Enterprise Contracting Americas (US, Canada, LATAM), you’ll play a pivotal role in fostering meaningful relationships and driving collaboration across all levels of our organization and with our external partners. Your focus will be on creating a positive and engaging experience throughout the contracting process, ensuring alignment, transparency, and mutual benefit for all stakeholders involved. If you thrive on building connections, facilitating dialogue, and driving impactful outcomes in particular through innovative and creative contracting, this is the role for you. If you're passionate about driving engagement, fostering collaboration, and making a positive impact, we want to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of contracting services and building lasting relationships that drive success for our organization and our partners. Apply now to be part of our dynamic team!

This is a hybrid role, requiring three (3) days of onsite work weekly. #LI-hybrid

Stakeholder Relationship Building:

• Develop and nurture strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including business units, legal teams, procurement departments, and executive leadership in the US, Canada and LATAM, in particular support the global leadership teams located in King of Prussia.
• Act as a trusted advisor and partner, understanding their needs, concerns, and objectives to drive collaborative solutions.

External Partner Engagement:

• Build rapport and trust with our external partners, vendors, and clients, establishing productive working relationships based on mutual respect and understanding.
• Serve as the face of our organization in external negotiations, representing our values and commitment to partnership.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Facilitate open and transparent communication channels, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and engaged throughout the contracting process.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, encouraging cross-functional dialogue and knowledge sharing.
• Lead your team in an inspiring way.

Negotiation Facilitation:

• Lead negotiations with a focus on creating win-win outcomes that balance the interests of all parties.
• Employ effective negotiation techniques and conflict resolution strategies to navigate complex discussions and reach mutually beneficial agreements.

Continuous Improvement Initiatives:

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and service enhancement, soliciting feedback from stakeholders and implementing actionable solutions.
• Drive initiatives to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and optimize the overall contracting experience.

Risk Management and Compliance:

• Collaborate with legal and risk management teams to assess and mitigate contractual risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies.

Proactively address potential issues and conflicts, leveraging your expertise and interpersonal skills to find solutions that protect our interests.

• Juris Doctor degree required.
• License to practice law in the US required.
• Additional qualification in contract law, pharmaceutical law a plus.
• 7+ years of experience managing global contracts throughout their life cycle from drafting templates to negotiating agreements up to setting up and optimizing contract processes,
• broad experience in managing stakeholder engagements, relationship management with a proven track record of passion and success.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device industry preferred.
• Legal technology experience, in particular with AI, a plus.
• Agile design thinking experience in Legal or legal engineering experience a plus.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to navigate complex discussions with tact and diplomacy.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, influence others, and resolve conflicts effectively.
• Ability to identify opportunities and challenges, evaluate alternatives, and propose solutions.
• Strategic mindset with a focus on driving positive outcomes and continuous improvement through automization and process excellence.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools, in working with AI and agentic agents.
• Open to drive innovation, in particular digital innovation.
• Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to embrace and drive change in evolving business and technology environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to collaborate well with individuals at all levels of the organization.

Travel Requirements

• International travel might be required, 10%.

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.

You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.