Senior Director, Legal Counsel

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, mentor, and motivate highly-skilled Contracts Team, and support career paths of team members
• Serve as key legal advisor to business teams, including overseeing negotiation of routine and sophisticated contracts, in the context of cross functional and geographically and culturally diverse teams
• Serve as lead negotiator on a range of critical and complex agreements
• Build, maintain, and enhance efficient contracts operations and infrastructure and drive continuous improvement
• Cultivate collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and Contracts Team to effectively communicate challenges and opportunities and deliver solutions
• Provide legal support across the organization on a variety of matters, including legal aspects of development strategy, regulatory activities, and HR processes, and quickly and effectively identify complex legal and compliance issues and provide advice that integrates legal risk management with the company’s business objectives
• Proactively manage cross-border communication on legal operations and strategic projects, and cultivate collaborative relationships with Japanese counterparts
• Maintain a positive team culture grounded in Deciphera’s core values of PATHS
• Manage and complete any additional projects or legal matters as needed

Qualifications

• JD plus 10+ years of experience
• Ability to manage, coach and mentor high-functioning team members
• Significant experience drafting and negotiation sophisticated life sciences contracts
• Strong understanding of the drug development and commercialization lifecycle
• License to practice Law in Massachusetts
• Excellent interpersonal and client relations skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment leveraging internal and external resources to meet simultaneous deadlines/demands
• Willingness to pitch-in and help on legal projects across the organization
• Excellent research, writing, counselling and communication skills and a positive client service orientation
• Ability to work independently, as a team member, and across the organization
• Accountability, sound judgment, and the ability to take ownership of an issue and provide concise and timely advice