Corporate Counsel

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, 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. 

Expectation to be in the Bedford, MA office at least Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday every week, but flexibility to be on-site on Mondays and Fridays is essential.

Overview

The Corporate Counsel will play a key role across many areas of legal work, collaborating with experienced attorneys to deliver practical, risk-oriented advice and services to the business. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who desires to advance their career and deepen their knowledge and expertise through broad exposure to a diverse array of critical legal work required to move our radiopharmaceutical company forward.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly collaborative, experienced legal team of an established and growing Nasdaq-listed radiopharmaceutical company. The successful candidate will find the work with the Lantheus Legal Team to be sophisticated, diverse and challenging. We are committed to ensuring this position includes an opportunity for continued development and exposure to legal and business subject areas relevant to the Company. To start, we are looking for an admitted attorney with experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating different types of contracts who wants to play an instrumental role in supporting the Company’s long-term growth strategy and core mission to find, fight and follow disease.

Job Summary

This individual will take on a key substantive legal role across the organization, working along with all members of our legal team and utilizing creative problem-solving skills and business judgment to ensure efficient and fit-for-purpose advice that is aligned to the Company’s strategic priorities.

This is a generalist role that will have the opportunity to learn and engage in contracting, compliance, human resources, securities, real estate, transactions, advertising and promotion of pharmaceutical products, compliance and other matters.

A large portion of the work will center around contracting and related advice and projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for independently and efficiently drafting, reviewing and negotiating contract terms and conditions, including master service agreements and associated statements of work, consulting agreements, vendor / service provider agreements, confidentiality agreements, quality agreements, data processing agreements, data safety exchange agreements, clinical trial agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, research agreements, agreements with customers (both fee-for-service and commercial sales), employment related agreements, and other agreements as requested.

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 meaningful work that impacts patients’ lives.
• Strong technical drafting, analysis and negotiation skills, informed by a deep understanding of the business and its immediate and long-term objectives and guided by appropriate risk balancing.
• A keen attention to detail, strong analytical reasoning, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage diverse projects simultaneously and function independently.
• The ability to collaborate and communicate with a diverse group of internal stakeholders including Procurement, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Privacy, Compliance, Enterprise Risk and to represent the Company externally in negotiations with vendors, service providers and customers.
• A compliance mindset, including the ability to ensure that contractual terms and provisions comply with the Company’s Contract Policy, Grant of Authority, other guidelines and applicable law.
• Integrity, sound judgment and respect for the confidential nature of the work we perform.
• A willingness to develop subject matter expertise, both within the contracting space and in other areas outside of contracting that are relevant to a radiopharmaceutical company, by working on matters with colleagues on the Legal Team and adopting a learning and continuous improvement mindset.
• A willingness to be a strong team player.

The successful candidate must be able to:

• Identify, assess and escalate risk and provide guidance to management and business stakeholders to support the decision-making process by business teams and / or other members of the Legal Team.
• Adopt a continuous improvement mindset, revising and improving the contracting process and knowledge management efforts, such as templates, provision libraries and contracting playbooks to ensure deliberate, fit-for-purpose, tailored contract provisions.
• Partner with business leaders to manage counterparties, advise on rights and obligations, and resolve disputes appropriately, keeping the long-term relationship in mind.
• Work with Legal colleagues to support the training of business partners on contract policies and processes, templates and fallback language to enable trained users throughout the business to adopt best practices and execute successfully using “self-service” contracting tools through the establishment of “contract champions” outside of the Legal Team.
• Multi-task across a high-volume of projects, prioritize and manage timelines effectively in a responsive and professional manner and actively seek help from colleagues when appropriate.

Qualifications

• J.D. degree with an impressive academic and professional background.
• Five to ten years of broad experience at a law firm with relevance to the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry being a plus.
• Extensive contracting experience, and familiarity with pharmaceutical compliance, securities law, antitrust law a plus.
• A member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to become a member of the Massachusetts bar.
• Strong command of Microsoft Office suite of programs, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, OneNote and Teams, as well as experience using email and calendar software (Outlook).

Core Values

The ideal candidate will embody Lantheus core values:

• Let people be their best
• Respect one another and act as one
• Learn, adapt, and win
• Know someone’s health is in our hands
• Own the solution and make it happen

Lantheus is an equal opportunity employer that provides a workplace free from discrimination. All qualified applicants and employees are considered without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the Lantheus Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@lantheus.com.