Senior Corporate Counsel, Brands

at  Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Canada and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio.
Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• JD from an accredited law school and a valid license to practice law (Massachusetts license is preferred).
• 10 - 13+ years of relevant legal experience including within the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, with experience in therapeutics a plus.
• Experience counseling in-house business partners on the sale and marketing of pharmaceutical products and legal matters of importance to the pharmaceutical industry, including product launch preparation, product lifecycle management and product distribution.

CULTURE:

Lantheus is also looking for the right fit for its legal team and the Company, which means the successful candidate must also have:

• A passion for performing work that impacts patients’ lives.
• An eagerness to help create a meaningful place for colleagues to work and grow.
• A strong sense of ownership, and an open willingness to roll up your sleeves and be an everyday hands-on contributor across the organization.
• A serious passion, curiosity, receptiveness and capacity to learn about the Company and the complex and evolving businesses of radiopharmaceuticals, the underlying clinical use of its products, and the sale, delivery and use of its products within the healthcare system

SUMMARY OF ROLE:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly collaborative, experienced legal team at an established Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company. We are looking for experience in the pharmaceutical industry to play a key role supporting the Company’s future growth and core mission to find, fight and follow serious diseases working cross-functionally to grow our existing products and to bring our pipeline to patients.
The successful candidate can look forward to building strong relationships across the organization, “plugging into” cross-functional information flows and workstreams to understand business objectives and bringing their legal expertise and strategic thinking to proactively identify and mitigate risks in the evolving field of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.
Attorney with 10 - 13+ years of relevant pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience to join the LANTHEUS Legal Department as Senior Corporate Counsel responsible for commercial matters, including providing practical, solution-oriented legal advice relating to investigational and marketed products and drafting and negotiating contracts. Candidates should have experience counseling in-house business partners on the sale and marketing of pharmaceutical products, scientific exchange, patient support programs, launch readiness, life cycle management, customer and other contracting and other legal matters of importance to the life sciences industry. Experience counseling on market access matters and on medical devices is a plus.
This position will report to the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and will be based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
This position will serve as a primary legal contact for marketed and investigational products, advising internal groups including research and development, commercial, including field sales, medical affairs, market access, patient support, commercial operations and others, will collaborate extensively with our Ethics & Compliance team, and will be the legal contact for medical materials review as well as promotional materials review. This position will also be a key contributor to our commercial strategy and will involve advising on customer contracting, including contracting with health care professionals and other customers.
Substantive working knowledge of US Federal and state laws and regulations relating to the pharmaceutical industry, including without limitation US Federal healthcare program requirements under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Transparency (Sunshine Act) Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, US Antitrust laws and Medicaid Best Price requirements is expected, as is awareness of current enforcement trends and compliance expectations. Experience working globally, including a familiarity with laws and regulations applicable to the pharmaceutical industry outside of the US, is a plus.
Candidates for the position are required to have a JD from an accredited law school and a valid license to practice law. Massachusetts license is preferred.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Partnering with and advising senior business leaders to facilitate compliant development and execution of brand strategy and achievement of brand objectives, including (i) ensuring the business is kept abreast of relevant legal developments, (ii) advising on strategic brand and cross-functional business operation plans, tactics and execution, including launch planning and strategy and associated product related offerings, (iii) identifying and analyzing risks and proposing appropriate, pragmatic, risk-based solutions to facilitate decision making, and (v) providing specific US legal advice.
Drafting, negotiating, reviewing and interpreting agreements associated with the business, including agreements with health care professionals, vendors, licensors, collaborators, consultants, manufacturers, distributors and speakers.
Primary areas of focus include (i) providing pragmatic and risk-based legal advice during development and execution of commercial and medical strategy and business / brand plans for products and product candidates, (ii) interactions with customers, including health care professionals and patients, (iii) product promotional materials and initiatives, (iv) patient interactions and patient support programs, (v) advisory boards, speaker programs, and publications, (vi) medical education initiatives and scientific exchange, (vii) serving as a member of promotional and/ or medical affairs materials review committees, (viii) negotiating commercial contracts and advising on market access strategy, (ix) other general contracting (procurement, clinical and supply), and (x) reviewing and advising on media relations materials, investor presentations, press releases, web sites and other company communications.
Professional Skills:

The successful candidate should possess the following attributes:

• High level of professionalism and integrity, sound judgement and a strong commitment to ethical conduct.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently managing multiple and sometimes conflicting responsibilities simultaneously while meeting high quality and timeliness standards in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Sophisticated emotional intelligence, strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional/multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate legal advice in a simple and straightforward manner, including the ability to: (i) understand and digest complex scenarios, (ii) manage differing opinions, ambiguity and conflict effectively, (iii) identify and evaluate relevant legal issues and risks, (iv) propose practical, risk-based solutions that take into consideration the relevant business objectives, (v) communicate issues, risks, and solutions clearly and concisely to lawyers and non-lawyers and (vi) escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to exert “soft influence” and build consensus without direct line management oversight.
• Commitment to proactively identify opportunities for improvement and engage with appropriate stakeholders to propose solutions.Ability to effectively and efficiently manage outside counsel, when used, and develop and adhere to a budget.
• Position may require travel and will include other duties as assigned.