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Be a hero for our rare disease patients
At Ultragenyx we fundamentally believe that taking real impactful action to care for the needs of patients and our people is always the right thing to achieve this goal our vision is to lead the future of rare disease medicine. For us this means going where other biopharma companies wont go challenging the status quo and creating a new model that advances our field so more patients and caregivers can benefit from lifechanging treatments. We do this by following the science applying a novel rapid development approach making innovative medicines at fair and reasonable prices and creating a collaborative ecosystem to reach patients in ways that are most meaningful for them.
Our commitment and care for patients extends to our people so culture is an essential cornerstone for Ultragenyx. We remain continuously focused on creating a supportive and inclusive environment of profound learning and growth so employees can thrive in all areas of their lives in and outside of we want to be an organization where we would be proud for our family friends and children to work.
If you want to have a meaningful impact do the best work of your career and grow a lot both professionally andpersonally come join our team.
Position Summary:
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The Legal Counsel North American Brand Attorney will provide actionable and patientcentered legal advice in North America to allow Ultragenyx to appropriately meet brand objectives with a focus on FDA labeling and promotional matters healthcare fraud and abuse pricing antitrust privacy and product liability issues. This individual will have responsibility for managing legal risk associated with commercial products and latestage clinical programs across disease areas and modalities with exciting opportunities to support gene therapy biologics and ASO launches in the coming years.
Work Model:
Flex: This role will typically require onsite work 23 days each week or more depending on business needs. In many locations the business will set certain days each week that Flex employees are required to be onsite.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as legal advisor and core brand attorney to commercial medical and development teams for latestage and marketed products. Key clients include sales and marketing market access pricing and distribution functions patient services medical affairs HEOR clinical trial recruitment functions and molecular diagnostic programs.
- Lead and manage the overall legal risk assessments to ensure appropriate and comprehensive understanding of potential enterprise risk escalation and resolution. Key legal risk areas include AntiKickback Statute FDA promotional regulations product liability antitrust privacy and pricing regulations.
- Advise on business strategies tactical plan development and implementation (e.g. brand plans promotional materials training documents corporate communications) including by serving as lead attorney on crossfunctional teams for launches and commercial products such as label review committees launch standing teams North America franchise teams and promotional and other material review committees.
- Counsel on appropriate relationships with a variety of external parties including healthcare professionals patients patient organizations academic institutions and payors.
- Collaborate with legal colleagues and crossfunctionally to ensure robust integrated and complete client counseling.
- Work collaboratively with compliance colleagues to develop and implement training to internal clients partners and stakeholders on key policies procedures practices and requirements for healthcare and related legal compliance and educate clients and partners about current enforcement trends.
- Lead educational sessions for legal group and company.
- Manage external counsel and associated spend.
Requirements:
- 5 years in legal counselling role in the pharmaceutical industry with substantial experience advising on commercialized product strategies and reviewing promotional materials.
- 9 years of legal experience.
- J.D. with active membership and good standing with U.S. state bar.
- Experience with AntiKickback Statute and FDA promotional regulations required; product launch experience and technical knowledge and/or business acumen preferred.
- Sound judgment; excellent written and oral communication skills; strong analytical and problemsolving skills; a high level of intellectual professional and interpersonal agility and flexibility; efficient an effective decision making; proven ability to assess and calibrate and effectively communicate about legal risks.
- Selfmotivated work well independently on projects meet aggressive deadlines handle multiple projects willingness to take initiative.
- Team oriented with ability to work in a collaborative global environment; excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills; ability to maintain an independent and objective perspective while developing and maintaining a strong partnership with client organizations.
- High level of business ethics.
- Occasional travel required. #LICK1#LIHybrid
Full Time employees across the globe enjoy a range of benefits including but not limited to:
Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company
Volunteer days
Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings
Employee wellbeing benefits
Fitness reimbursement
Tuition sponsoring
Professional development plans
* Benefits vary by region and country
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin/ancestry age disability marital and veteran status and any other status or classification protected by applicable federal state and/or local laws. Reasonable accommodation will be provided for all protected statuses or classifications protected by applicable law including individuals with disabilities disabled veterans for pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions and based on sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants can request an accommodation prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or in any part of the recruitment process you may contact Talent Acquisition by emailing us at .
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