Senior Specialist (Paralegal) Animal Health

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Senior Specialist Legal supports our Company Animal Health legal group by providing paralegal operational and administrative support across a variety of commercial compliance and regulatory matters.

This role partners closely with attorneys and cross-functional business stakeholders to support efficient legal activities contract management promotional material review and maintenance of legal resources and templates.

The ideal candidate is highly organized detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with professionalism and discretion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day paralegal and administrative support to the legal team on commercial transactions and operational matters

• Support promotional material review for our Company Animal Health materials in Veeva/PromoMats at an appropriate level in coordination with managing attorneys

• Assist with drafting reviewing organizing and tracking contracts NDAs vendor agreements distributor/retailer agreements and related legal documents

• Manage the Legal Department templates library including maintaining current versions organizing content and supporting updates as needed

• Assist our Company Animal Health attorneys with policy and procedure updates including editing formatting tracking revisions and coordinating reviews

• Maintain legal files records templates and tracking systems

• Serve as a liaison between the legal team and internal business stakeholders to facilitate timely responses and support

• Assist with compliance-related tasks documentation and reporting as needed

• Coordinate signatures approvals and other legal administrative processes

• Support special projects within the legal function

• Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with sound judgment

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

• 3 years of experience in legal support legal operations contract administration compliance or a related corporate environment

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• High attention to detail and accuracy

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word Excel PowerPoint Copilot) contract management systems and experience with Veeva PromoMats or similar material review platforms

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment

• Demonstrated professionalism discretion and sound judgment

Preferred:

• Experience supporting a legal team in the pharmaceutical animal health healthcare or other regulated industry

• Paralegal certificate or equivalent legal training

Competencies

• Initiative and accountability

• Collaboration and stakeholder management

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking

• Adaptability and responsiveness

• Integrity and confidentiality

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This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills geographic location government requirements and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical dental vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) retirement benefits including 401(k) paid holidays vacation and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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