Senior Corporate Counsel - Head of Contracting

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. 

Overview

Lantheus is seeking a highly experienced and strategic attorney to serve as Head of Contracting within our growing Legal department. This is a critical leadership role, newly created to oversee the Legal contracting function, working collaboratively across the business and within our legal team, independently managing and overseeing the legal contracting function at Lantheus.

The successful candidate will possess exceptional legal and business acumen, proven leadership skills, and a passion for innovation. Experience in leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance contract management processes is welcomed.

We are seeking a pragmatic leader who can lead the strategic direction and execution of all contract-related activities, ensuring efficient, compliant, appropriately risk-balanced and effective contract management across the organization and effectively manage high-volume projects while prioritizing and managing timelines effectively within a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes people management, operational efficiency, continuous improvement and legal innovation.

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. While this is a contracting focused role, we are committed to ensuring this position includes an opportunity for continued development and exposure to subject areas relevant to the Company that go beyond contracting.

Spend a few minutes reading about our Company’s continuing transformation as a leader in the renaissance of radiopharmaceuticals and our future in precision medicine through the most recent acquisitions, investments, partnerships and additions to our clinical development pipeline, and that will give you a sense of who the Lantheus team is and where we are going.  We are expanding our Legal team to enable the continued growth and success of our growing organization and are looking for an attorney who is an agile problem solver, strategic thinker and has experience partnering as a member of the business team to achieve strategic business objectives.

Expectation to be in the Bedford, MA office at least Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday every week, with flexibility to be on-site on Mondays and Fridays on a regular basis.

Position Information:

The successful candidate will lead the contracting process, managing others and collaborating with colleagues to continuously improve that process. No important initiative at Lantheus – whether delivering life-saving precision medicines, evolving our technological infrastructure or building out our organizational capabilities – starts without a contract and this team will be at the center of it all.  Contracts move our business forward, and we need the right person to lead this important work and team. They are the first opportunity to establish a common understanding with our business partners.  They lay out the parties’ expectations and ways of working, ensuring the success of the contracting workflow, including contract intake, evaluation, negotiation, approval and execution.  Prior experience establishing a user-friendly process to reduce the need for legal review, including using a risk-based approach to identify opportunities to train business users to use tools and playbooks to successfully execute on simple contracts without legal involvement will be key.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Leadership & Experience Delivering Contracting Innovation

• Develop a deep understanding of the Company and its long-term strategy and business objectives to formulate and execute a strategic roadmap for contracting, aligning with the Company’s growth and business objectives.
• Proactively develop and maintain strong relationships with business leaders, becoming a trusted adviser and partner who comes to mind whenever the situation calls for it.
• Partner with business leaders as a practical, strategic adviser in negotiations, managing contractual relationships, holding counterparties accountable, and resolving contract disputes appropriately, with the long-term relationship in mind.

• Contribute to maintenance and continuous improvement of a contract intake system and tracker to manage contract review and track and report data surrounding agreement management, support proper status reporting and ensure appropriate filing after execution.

• Identify opportunities to integrate tools to streamline workflows and enhance quality and compliance, including evaluating and implementing a contract management system, AI and machine learning (as appropriate) into contract drafting, review and management to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance consistency and facilitate decision-making.
• Partner with legal operations, IT and external vendors and propose a roadmap that will introduce technology and process automation.
• Collaborate with business teams and cross-functional subject matter experts to influence buy-in and engage them more deeply in contract review.
• Stay current with industry trends and the legal and regulatory landscape relevant to Lantheus.

People Management & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Lantheus contracts team, fostering a culture of proactiveness collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive professional growth opportunities for team members through training, mentorship, and AI literacy programs.
• Implement best-in-class contract management practices to enhance productivity, legal support and the employee experience across the organization.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization including business teams. Procurement, Finance, IT and Compliance.

Contracts Oversight & Risk Mitigation

• Oversee the full lifecycle of contracts across the organization, including collaborating with subject matter experts on the Legal team to ensure quality and consistency.

• Ensure contracts are structured, negotiated, and executed efficiently, balancing risk mitigation with business agility.
• Assess and escalate risk associated with contractual terms and provide guidance to the Contracting team, management and business stakeholders to support the decision-making process by business teams and the Contracting Team.
• Strong technical drafting, analysis and negotiation skills
• Lead in the development and maintenance of knowledge management tools and contracting tools, processes and procedures (templates, playbooks, work instructions, etc.) to standardize workflow, increase efficiency and manage risk.
• Monitor evolving legal and regulatory trends, adapting contract strategies accordingly.

Process Optimization & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Establish scalable contract workflows, leveraging automation and data analytics to drive insights and operational excellence, while retaining a compliance mindset and ensuring compliance with the Company’s Contract Policy, Grant of Authority, other guidelines and applicable law.

• Adopt and instill in the team a continuous improvement mindset, revising and improving process, templates, provision libraries and contracting playbooks to ensure deliberate, fit-for-purpose, tailored contract provisions.

• Develop metrics to measure contract efficiency, risk exposure, and AI adoption effectiveness.
• Act as a strategic partner to business leaders, ensuring contracts align with company goals, risk tolerance, and innovation initiatives.
• Train 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 to enable appropriate contracting without Legal department participation.

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

• Passion for performing meaningful work that impacts patients’ lives.
• Integrity, sound judgment and respect for the confidential nature of the work we perform.
• Sophisticated emotional intelligence, strong interpersonal skills, a collaborative style and an ability to exert “soft influence” and build consensus.
• Deep understanding of the business and its immediate and long-term objectives.
• 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 business leaders, Procurement, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Privacy, Compliance, Enterprise Risk and to represent the Company externally in negotiations with vendors, service providers and customers.
• 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 proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to “roll up your sleeves” to get the job done as a strong team player.
• An ability to set and manage multiple, constantly changing, sometimes conflicting priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• A dedication to the highest level of customer

Qualifications

• J.D. degree with twelve or more years of relevant contracting experience, including experience implementing or working within a strategic and innovative in-house contracting team, preferably in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
• Substantial experience and demonstrated technical excellence in agreement drafting, issue spotting and resolution, analytical thinking, negotiation, and steering cross-functional groups to consensus, including through unique, urgent situations where little precedent or guidance exists.
• 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. Experience with (or at least a strong intellectual curiosity about and willingness to explore and implement) innovative tools, including artificial intelligence, to enable contracts management systems is key.

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.