Legal Counsel

**Description**

**Legal Counsel - Employment, APAC**

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE**

**Why Syneos Health**
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

**Job responsibilities**
- Provides practical legal advice on legal matters
- Monitors changes in laws and regulations globally to ensure Company adaptation and compliance
- Supports country-level legal activities, including required notifications and filings
- Drafts notices, data processing agreements, and other documentation to support the Company’s processing of personal data
- Supports the negotiation of customer and vendor data processing and data sharing agreements
- Supports customer and vendor audits and regulatory inspections as required
- Contributes to the drafting of Company policies, procedures and processes
- May serve as a member of the Company’s incident response team
- Manages external counsel in accordance with outside counsel guidelines, within specified budgetary limits, and in line with business and legal management’s expectations
- Works collaboratively across the Office of the General Counsel, including the Company’s global team of regional-based attorneys, to build consensus on process improvements and drive corporate legal projects to completion
- Supports the Syneos Health ‘Mission, Vision and Values’
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

**Qualifications**

**REQUIREMENTS**
- Law degree from an accredited university; licensed to practice law
- Industry certifications required, such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT
- Industry experience in a healthcare or life sciences company, such as a CRO, biotech, or pharmaceutical drug development company or a technology company preferred but not required
- Experience with structuring and negotiating complex business arrangements
- High level of business acumen
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and take a business-oriented approach while identifying and balancing risks and providing succinct, accurate and pragmatic advice
- Must be able to work under tight deadlines and interact with lawyers and business teams globally
- Exceptional analytical, negotiation, problem-solving, decision-making, and risk assessment skills
- Independent judgment, attention to detail, a desire to learn, and an ability to take on and prioritize a wide variety of complex matters while meeting tight deadlines
- Outstanding relationship-building, interpersonal and communication skills
- Can-do attitude, ability to work under pressure and to manage the expectations of clients
- Creative problem-solving ability with a focus on achieving client-friendly solutions while managing company risk

**Get to know Syneos Health**

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

**Additional Information**:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion