Senior Manager, Legal

The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) at Duke-NUS Medical School is responsible for protecting and commercialising inventions made by Duke-NUS researchers, managing collaborations and relationships with other organisations that may result in new products or services that impact patients and communities, and building an ecosystem of entrepreneurship at the Duke-NUS SingHealth Academic Medical Centre. The Contracts and Industry Engagement Department (CIE) is responsible for contract negotiation with third parties and management of external relationships with other research organisations or commercial entities that might be sponsoring specific research areas.

OIE is actively seeking a Senior Manager (Legal) to report to the Director of CIE. The roles and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
- Work with Duke-NUS internal offices (DO, OIE, OACD, OE, OR and Corp Affairs) and external offices (OLA and ILO and ODPRT) as needed, to establish working processes for effectively entering into and managing contractual relationships in areas of research, commercialization, education and other functional areas of the school.
- Facilitate the preparation and review of academic and industry collaborative agreements such as confidentiality agreements, materials transfer agreements, research collaboration agreements, MOUs and any other legal agreements necessary to give effect to the various kinds of interactions between researchers and third parties and other public sector organisations in line with Duke-NUS’ policies.
- Co-ordinate and assist in advising Programme Business Managers on administrative and research process which arise from legal issues arising from collaborations with external parties.
- Develop contracting templates and improve current process and procedures as may be required to deliver the CIE function and streamline workflows.
- Experience in developing and creating and utilising legal technology solutions to deliver trainings and to increase the efficiency and turnaround times for all contracts in Duke-NUS.
- Work with Duke overseas affiliates where needed.

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s in Law with minimum 8 years of post-qualification experience in negotiating and drafting various legal agreements with specific experience handling Singapore and US and EU clients.
- Demonstrated experience in an industry and academic setting dealing with all manner of contracts as needed particularly within the field of clinical trials research and biomedical & biotechnology & laboratory research and development.
- Prior experience liaising with international medical schools and hospitals as well as the local Singapore government hospitals and universities in a similar role is a requirement.
- Analytical and systems-minded, solutions oriented and well-spoken and confident to be able to negotiate extensively and interface seamlessly with key stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team as required.
- Prior experience with building and strengthening workflows and processes between OIE and other Duke-NUS internal and external offices to enable compliance initiatives is required.
- Prior experience developing Legal Tech initiatives i.e. AI contract review etc.
- Self-driven, optimistic and be keen to work as part of a professional and closely-knit team.
- Prior proven experience within life science practice and public research institution preferred.
- Good command in written and oral English.

**Covid-19 Message**:
At NUS, the health and safety of our staff and students are one of our utmost priorities, and COVID-vaccination supports our commitment to ensure the safety of our community and to make NUS as safe and welcoming as possible. Many of our roles require a significant amount of physical interactions with students/staff/public members. Even for job roles that may be performed remotely, there will be instances where on-campus presence is required.

Taking into consideration the health and well-being of our staff and students and to better protect everyone in the campus, applicants are strongly encouraged to have themselves fully COVID-19 vaccinated to secure successful employment with NUS.

**More Information**:
Location: Outram Campus

Organization: Duke-NUS Medical School

Department : Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Employee Referral Eligible:
Job requisition ID : 17680