# Associate Counsel - Vendor Contracts

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking an Associate Counsel to join their Vendor Contracts team. As an Associate Counsel, you will assist in end-to-end contracting related to clinical, commercial, and corporate vendor contracts for products and services. This includes reviewing and negotiating sophisticated service agreements, Licensing, SaaS, HR & staffing agreements, and other contracts.

**Core Responsibilities:**

- Assist in negotiations with vendor's legal team

- Respond to and advise on legal-related requests and inquiries from business teams and draft Legal documents

- Strong communicator – able to professionally handle emails, messages, and calls internally and with external vendors and clients

- Advise business teams on contractual matters and risk mitigation

- Interface with Procurement, Data Privacy, and Sourcing as required to support contracting matters

- Assist in the drafting and negotiation of all aspects of direct and indirect contracts

- Work collaboratively across the Legal department to coordinate and drive completion of global contracts

- Conduct legal research and analysis related to the company's business

**Qualifications:**

- JD/LLM/LLB or an equivalent Degree from an accredited University

- Fully Qualified lawyer

- Law firm or in-house experience is a bonus

- Knowledge of contracts and commercial laws

- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing legal risks and providing succinct, accurate, and pragmatic advice

- Ability to work semi-independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams

- Outstanding relationship-building skills

- Exceptional analytical skills, independent judgment, and a desire to learn

- Can-do attitude, able to work under pressure, manage tight deadlines, and a high volume of contracts

## Skills

### Required
- contracts
- commercial laws
- legal research
- analysis
- communication
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- law firm experience
- in-house experience

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