Commercial Counsel

☞ Waters Corporation

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Wilmslow North West

Category: Legal / Contracts

Industry: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Job type: Full-time

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Overview:
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is offering an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Counsel to join its global Legal team. This full-time role reports to the Director, Senior Legal Counsel and is based at Waters’ state of the art facility in Wilmslow, UK.

The Commercial Counsel will collaborate internationally with Legal colleagues and business stakeholders around the world, supporting all business and corporate functions across the company. The Commercial Counsel will be responsible for providing high-quality and timely advice and guidance on a wide range of commercial legal matters.

The ideal candidate will be a talented team player, detail-oriented, independently motivated, and will possess the confidence and ability to interact with all functions across the business in a professional, collaborative, and effective manner.

The Commercial Counsel will be expected to work with a degree of autonomy and at other times under supervision, as appropriate. The role offers an opportunity for an ambitious and talented commercial lawyer to join a growing team within a dynamic business.
Responsibilities:
  • Draft, negotiate and manage a wide range of commercial agreements with customers, partners, and suppliers, often with an international element and with a focus on technology, including supply of goods and services, distribution and agency, R&D, software licensing, SaaS, and marketing.
  • Provide practical, commercially astute advice on day-to-day business issues requiring legal support, integrating legal risk management with Waters’ business objectives.
  • Independently manage multiple tasks with tight deadlines, while managing the expectations of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with other members of Waters’ global Legal team on longer-term projects and transactional matters, with guidance and supervision depending on the complexity of each matter.
  • Support the continuous improvement of the global Legal team’s operational processes, including the drafting of template agreements and playbooks.
Qualifications:
  • High-quality commercial lawyer with around 2 – 4 years of relevant post-qualification experience, gained either in a national law firm and/or in-house.
  • Registered to practise in the UK.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of dealing with a wide range of people and cultures, with a proven ability to establish a high degree of credibility, respect and trust at all levels.
  • Ability to solve problems independently and to deliver accurate, high-quality, commercially astute work product.
  • Effective time-planning and organisational skills to prioritise key areas of responsibility, tasks and projects.
  • Strong team player, who is both committed and flexible.
  • Operates with integrity, transparency and humility.
  • Acts as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters with focus, urgency and accountability.
  • Any EMEA or wider international experience and/or experience in the life, materials, or food science markets is beneficial but not required
In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days of holiday, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.
Company Description:
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world’s leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Waters Wilmslow:
People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. Being the world’s leading speciality measurement company, we believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. At Wilmslow, our focus is on the development and delivery of mass spectrometry systems and software in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.

Our mass spectrometers deliver benefit to customers in many industries and make a meaningful impact to our lives through examples such as
  • Neo-natal screening to keep babies healthy
  • Ensuring consistent, reliable safety in our global food and water supply
  • Developing new medicinal therapies to advance human health
  • Ensuring participants in the world’s sporting events compete fairly
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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