Johnson & Johnson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Description At Janssen, we never stop working toward a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and you can count on us to keep working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere, by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Immunology, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Visit us: www.janssen.ca for more information. The Global Legal Organization is recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel to support J&J’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Toronto, Canada. This Senior Legal Counsel will report to the Vice President, Law for Janssen Canada. The Senior Legal Counsel supports the Vice President, Law by providing business partners with strategic legal advice and counsel in all areas of law, to further the interests of the business while protecting the company’s rights, interests and reputation. Key Responsibilities Partnering with local business, and outside counsel as appropriate, to support business opportunities while ensuring compliance with legislation, industry guidelines and internal policies. Additionally, the position involves close interactions with colleagues in the Johnson & Johnson Global Legal Organization’s litigation, regulatory and patent groups who are engaged in patent and product liability litigation as well as in prosecuting and managing Johnson & Johnson’s patent estate. Providing strategic proactive and reactive legal advice on a wide range of proposed business initiatives and materials, in the areas of sales & marketing, regulatory affairs, drug pricing and reimbursement, clinical data generation and communication, finance & logistics, and information technology. Preparing and negotiating commercial agreements across functional areas listed above. Providing Canadian legal advice and drafting support on development and negotiation of licensing and acquisition agreements. Serving on project teams and committees to assess and implement special/significant projects in the local business and/or J&J’s Global Legal Organization.
Minimum 7-9 years of experience in a private practice and/or in-house setting.
Proven legal and business judgment and excellent strategic and analytical skills.
Demonstrated abilities to work in a fast-paced environment, meet stringent timelines, and handle multiple demands simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a team player.
Excellent client relationship experience and communication skills and ability to work with a wide range of people with varying degrees of legal exposure.
Bilingual English and French would be an asset.
Strength in corporate/commercial matters; regulatory experience is preferred.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs.Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year.Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs such as health insurance, savings plan, pension plan, disability plan, vacation pay, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal and family time off in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com .
Job Description At Janssen, we never stop working toward a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and you can count on us to keep working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere, by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Immunology, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Visit us: www.janssen.ca for more information. The Global Legal Organization is recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel to support J&J’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Toronto, Canada. This Senior Legal Counsel will report to the Vice President, Law for Janssen Canada. The Senior Legal Counsel supports the Vice President, Law by providing business partners with strategic legal advice and counsel in all areas of law, to further the interests of the business while protecting the company’s rights, interests and reputation. Key Responsibilities Partnering with local business, and outside counsel as appropriate, to support business opportunities while ensuring compliance with legislation, industry guidelines and internal policies. Additionally, the position involves close interactions with colleagues in the Johnson & Johnson Global Legal Organization’s litigation, regulatory and patent groups who are engaged in patent and product liability litigation as well as in prosecuting and managing Johnson & Johnson’s patent estate. Providing strategic proactive and reactive legal advice on a wide range of proposed business initiatives and materials, in the areas of sales & marketing, regulatory affairs, drug pricing and reimbursement, clinical data generation and communication, finance & logistics, and information technology. Preparing and negotiating commercial agreements across functional areas listed above. Providing Canadian legal advice and drafting support on development and negotiation of licensing and acquisition agreements. Serving on project teams and committees to assess and implement special/significant projects in the local business and/or J&J’s Global Legal Organization.
Minimum 7-9 years of experience in a private practice and/or in-house setting.
Proven legal and business judgment and excellent strategic and analytical skills.
Demonstrated abilities to work in a fast-paced environment, meet stringent timelines, and handle multiple demands simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a team player.
Excellent client relationship experience and communication skills and ability to work with a wide range of people with varying degrees of legal exposure.
Bilingual English and French would be an asset.
Strength in corporate/commercial matters; regulatory experience is preferred.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs.Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year.Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs such as health insurance, savings plan, pension plan, disability plan, vacation pay, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal and family time off in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com .
Moderna
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Role Moderna is seeking a Director, Legal and Compliance, who will be responsible for providing best in class legal, compliance and privacy support for Moderna’s growing presence in Canada and Latin America. The role provides a unique, rewarding opportunity to help build Moderna’s presence in Canada and Latin America, including opportunities to counsel on local legal requirements, contracting, regulatory matters, alliance management and market access in close collaboration with Moderna’s global legal, compliance, privacy and government affairs teams. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in the scale up of a platform-based biotechnology company, and in building the regional Legal and Compliance function to support long-term growth. Here’s What You’ll Do
Serve as the Legal, Compliance and Privacy lead for Canada; and Legal lead for Latin America and participate in country leadership team as a strategic business partner.
Partner cross-functionally and collaborate with business and legal stakeholders leveraging global expertise, technology and capabilities, and acting as enterprise connector to ensure global excellence, consistency and compliance.
Provide legal support for construction and operation of Moderna’s first mRNA manufacturing facility in Canada and ensure performance of Moderna’s related agreements.
Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, quality and procurement teams and provide support operations of the mRNA facility as part of our global supply chain and manufacturing network.
Partner with research and clinical development and provide support to enable local R&D activities including clinical site startup, vendor outsourcing and strategic collaborations.
Support contract implementation and dispute resolution (if applicable) related to R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, commercial, medical affairs and strategic matters.
Support on GxP and regulatory compliance topics, including interactions with health authorities.
Support tenders and other country supply arrangements.
Effectively engage with and oversee interactions with outside counsel across the region.
Advise on engagement with patient organizations and health care professionals and support medical affairs/scientific engagement activities.
Support Government Affairs activities, including engagement with industry associations.
Participate in promotional review, grant review, and medical review committees.
Be curious about Moderna’s mRNA platform and relentlessly support its commercialization for a potential COVID-19 vaccine and in other modalities.
Here’s What You’ll Need (Minimum Qualifications)
Legal qualification from an accredited law school.
Admitted into practice in Canada and in good standing.
Minimum 7+ years of post-qualification experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)
Strong drafting and communication skills, and an ability to maintain a high level of attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.
Ability to collaborate and provide support across a broad range of key areas and with a variety of functional stakeholders, including marketing, scientific engagement, supply chain, finance, medical, pharmacovigilance, manufacturing, quality, procurement, engineering, contracting, communications, and business development.
Intense sense of urgency, curiosity, and ambition to excel and build something from the ground up, navigating all the requisite ambiguity and complexity that comes with writing the rulebook while executing in real time.
Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration and influencing skills.
Enthusiasm and a passion to enable an exciting new technology platform through successful launches of innovative mRNA-based medicines.
A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.
Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work. We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:
Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
Family planning and adoption benefits
Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
Educational resources
Savings and investments
Location-specific perks and extras!
The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work. About Moderna In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com. Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.
The Role Moderna is seeking a Director, Legal and Compliance, who will be responsible for providing best in class legal, compliance and privacy support for Moderna’s growing presence in Canada and Latin America. The role provides a unique, rewarding opportunity to help build Moderna’s presence in Canada and Latin America, including opportunities to counsel on local legal requirements, contracting, regulatory matters, alliance management and market access in close collaboration with Moderna’s global legal, compliance, privacy and government affairs teams. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in the scale up of a platform-based biotechnology company, and in building the regional Legal and Compliance function to support long-term growth. Here’s What You’ll Do
Serve as the Legal, Compliance and Privacy lead for Canada; and Legal lead for Latin America and participate in country leadership team as a strategic business partner.
Partner cross-functionally and collaborate with business and legal stakeholders leveraging global expertise, technology and capabilities, and acting as enterprise connector to ensure global excellence, consistency and compliance.
Provide legal support for construction and operation of Moderna’s first mRNA manufacturing facility in Canada and ensure performance of Moderna’s related agreements.
Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, quality and procurement teams and provide support operations of the mRNA facility as part of our global supply chain and manufacturing network.
Partner with research and clinical development and provide support to enable local R&D activities including clinical site startup, vendor outsourcing and strategic collaborations.
Support contract implementation and dispute resolution (if applicable) related to R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, commercial, medical affairs and strategic matters.
Support on GxP and regulatory compliance topics, including interactions with health authorities.
Support tenders and other country supply arrangements.
Effectively engage with and oversee interactions with outside counsel across the region.
Advise on engagement with patient organizations and health care professionals and support medical affairs/scientific engagement activities.
Support Government Affairs activities, including engagement with industry associations.
Participate in promotional review, grant review, and medical review committees.
Be curious about Moderna’s mRNA platform and relentlessly support its commercialization for a potential COVID-19 vaccine and in other modalities.
Here’s What You’ll Need (Minimum Qualifications)
Legal qualification from an accredited law school.
Admitted into practice in Canada and in good standing.
Minimum 7+ years of post-qualification experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)
Strong drafting and communication skills, and an ability to maintain a high level of attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.
Ability to collaborate and provide support across a broad range of key areas and with a variety of functional stakeholders, including marketing, scientific engagement, supply chain, finance, medical, pharmacovigilance, manufacturing, quality, procurement, engineering, contracting, communications, and business development.
Intense sense of urgency, curiosity, and ambition to excel and build something from the ground up, navigating all the requisite ambiguity and complexity that comes with writing the rulebook while executing in real time.
Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration and influencing skills.
Enthusiasm and a passion to enable an exciting new technology platform through successful launches of innovative mRNA-based medicines.
A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.
Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work. We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:
Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
Family planning and adoption benefits
Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
Educational resources
Savings and investments
Location-specific perks and extras!
The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work. About Moderna In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com. Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.