Associate General Counsel - Procurement

A career at Resilience is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to change the future.

Resilience is a technology-focused biomanufacturing company that's changing the way medicine is made. We're building a sustainable network of high-tech, end-to-end manufacturing solutions to better withstand disruptive events, serve scientific discovery, and reach those in need.

For more information, please visit www.resilience.com

Resilience is looking for an experienced technology transactions/commercial contracting attorney to take a leading role managing the procurement responsibilities for our Legal department.

Our ideal candidate will be an experienced, pragmatic, and creative problem solver who excels at negotiating complex agreements, improving templates, playbooks, processes, and cross-functional workflows, and managing paralegals, junior attorneys, and contract specialists.

In addition to possessing all the technical skills of a great attorney, you must have a demonstrated ability to recognize and weigh business priorities and work cross-functionally to advance practical solutions. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a dynamic company doing work that matters.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, analyze, structure, and negotiate a wide variety of procurement agreements including purchase agreements (e.g., direct materials, equipment) and services agreements (e.g., consultancy, IT services agreements, SaaS agreements, design, and construction).
• Supervise contract specialists, paralegals and junior attorneys in their review of procurement agreements.
• Coordinate with Company stakeholders on technical, financial, operational, compliance and risk mitigation aspects of the agreements
• Help build and improve forms, processes, policies, and playbooks
• Advise Procurement personnel with respect to compliance policies, vendor relations, contract matters.
• Develop and implement contract risk mitigation strategies
• Support corporate insurance renewals and manage insurance claims
• Provide ongoing training to Company personnel on legal issues
• Work well in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrated expertise in in technology transactions/commercial contracting
• Experience managing contract professionals
• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills
• Exceptional organizational, project management and multitasking skills with a proven ability to operate independently with limited supervision
• Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of people, at all levels in the company
• Strong integrity and sound judgment
• Sense of humor
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn
• JD from an accredited US law school
• Bar membership in good standing in at least one US state

Preferred Experience:

• Experience negotiating inbound equipment, technology, and services contracts at a rapidly growing biotech or tech company
• Experience with risk management and corporate insurance programs
• Combination of large law firm and prior in-house experience
• Prior experience with legal workflow technologies such as contract lifecycle management
• General knowledge of worldwide data privacy regulations and/or ITAR/DFAR regulations is a plus

Resilience is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or characteristic, or other non-job-related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state, and local laws. Requests for reasonable accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.