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Legal Counsel Jobs in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland at ICON plc
Title: Legal Counsel
Company: ICON plc
Location: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
As a Legal Counsel at ICON, you will contribute to our legal and compliance function, working collaboratively to deliver high-quality outcomes across our clinical programmes.
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
As a Legal Counsel at ICON, you will contribute to our legal and compliance function, working collaboratively to deliver high-quality outcomes across our clinical programs.
What You Will Do
This is an exciting opportunity to act as a Legal Business Partner, delivering pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice to support ICON’s strategic objectives
while partnering with stakeholders across the business to drive informed decision-making and mitigate risk.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of contracts and agreements, including master services agreements, vendor agreements, clinical trial agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
- Providing legal guidance and support on contractual, regulatory, compliance, data privacy and operational issues affecting ICON’s global clinical research activities.
- Partnering with business development, operational, finance and compliance teams to facilitate commercial opportunities while appropriately managing legal risk.
- Conducting legal research and analysis to support business initiatives, identify legal risks, and develop strategies to mitigate potential liabilities.
- Assisting with the development and implementation of legal policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure consistent compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address legal issues, resolve disputes, and support strategic initiatives and projects.
Your Profile
You will bring relevant legal affairs and compliance experience, along with the following qualifications and skills.
Required Qualifications And Experience
- A bachelor’s degree in law or equivalent qualification.
- Qualified solicitor, attorney or equivalent legal professional in a relevant jurisdiction.
- Prior experience in a legal role, with a focus on commercial contracts, ideally within Pharmaceutical, Biotech, CRO or Life Sciences.
- Strong understanding of contract law, regulatory requirements, and industry standards relevant to the pharmaceutical or biotechnology sector.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal concepts effectively to non-legal stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Willingness to travel as required (approximately 10%).
What ICON Can Offer You
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our Benefits Examples Include
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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