Senior Associate, Contract Management

With a legacy as a pioneer in the ALSP market, Factor leads the next evolution in legal services through AI-integrated contracting.

Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law™, combining the expertise of Traditional Law, the efficiency of New Law, and the close business integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale.

Factor works alongside corporate legal departments to solve for the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work. Our "do while transforming, transform while doing" approach combines specialist expertise, AI-powered solutions, and business process knowledge to deliver better performance, better business and legal outcomes, and a transformed contracting experience.

Our clients span Fortune 500 companies including global banks, major pharmaceutical companies and large technology firms.

We believe that the more diverse our team becomes — in backgrounds, skills, experiences, and perspectives — the higher our creative potential as a company. We are dedicated to growing a diverse, inclusive company where individuals of all backgrounds thrive.

We are comprised of more than 300 lawyers, legal specialists, technologists, and process consultants across Europe and North America – Join us!

The Role

We’re looking for an Senior Associate, Contract Management to join us in Wrocław. As a member of our team, you’ll be responsible for working on engagements for large Global client, within Pharmacy sector and other contract related work. You’ll draft, review and negotiate agreements supporting research and development activities, provide practical, risk-based legal guidance, and help progress matters efficiently in a highly regulated environment.

If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, quirky, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for drafting and negotiating a wide range of Commercial Contracts and R&D agreements, including confidentiality agreements, investigator-initiated study agreements, research and collaboration agreements, CRO and vendor agreements, material transfer agreements, consulting agreements, grants and data or technology licence agreements • Working closely with our Client’s in-house legal team and stakeholders on a range of matters such as procurement, privacy, professional services, technology, information security and intellectual property, research and development, clinical studies and other pharmaceutical matters • Collaborate with specialist legal and business functions, including intellectual property, privacy, compliance, regulatory, quality, pharmacovigilance and procurement, and coordinate their input where required • Ensure agreements appropriately address key R&D risks, including ownership and use of intellectual property, study data and results, publication rights, confidentiality, data privacy, regulatory and quality responsibilities, liability, indemnification and insurance • Be part of a team committed to the overall timely and accurate delivery of services and compliance with all delivery commitments to the client • Active caseload management, including prioritization, deadlines and escalation • Adhere to all Factor delivery processes and commitments; • Input and manage data on Factor and client systems and keep them up to date; • Help develop contract templates, playbooks and other tools for use by the team; • Be part of a team committed to continually improving our service to the client and adding value.

Qualifications

• You are adaptable, authentic, accountable, and values-driven. You’re a team player who exhibits personal leadership and leaves things better than you found them. We’re looking for someone who always gives their best and inspires others to do the same. This role requires excellent attention to detail, strong commercial awareness and a great deal of independence and decisiveness. It’s no small task!
• In addition to the above, here are the required skills, knowledge, capabilities, and education for this role:
• Law Degree and/or Legally Qualified
• Legally eligible to work in the country this role is based
• 4+ years’ demonstrable experience of independently drafting and negotiating commercial contracts within a law firm, as part of an in-house legal team or within Factor; experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences or other regulated R&D activities is strongly preferred
• Excellent attention to detail
• Operates with substantial latitude, with minimal or no supervision
• Strong awareness of potential IP and data processing risks and issues
• The legal knowledge to act as a senior advisor to the client and serve as an escalation point on issues for more junior team members
• Very strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite - especially Microsoft Word
• Coaching and mentoring more junior team members
• Experience of client relationship management
• Working with a recognized matter management system as part of daily routine

What We Offer

• Chance to develop your career in an international, innovative company providing legal services to top brands worldwide;
• Opportunity to join an industry-leading executive team and over 300 lawyers, contract experts, technologists, and process consultants;
• Inclusive and nurturing work environment, where everyone's contributions are valued;
• Comfortable working hours with respect for work-life balance;
• Employment contract and employees’ benefits package – MultiSport card, private medical care, group insurance, wellbeing platform;
• Hybrid working model with a modern office located in the heart of Wroclaw.