Attorney (Consultant)

About Pharming

Pharming Group N.V. (Nasdaq: PHAR/Euronext Amsterdam: PHARM) is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare, debilitating, and life-threatening diseases. Pharming is commercializing and developing an innovative portfolio of protein replacement therapies and precision medicines, including small molecules, biologics, and gene therapies that are in early to late-stage development. Pharming is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands, and has employees around the globe who serve patients in over 30 markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Our Culture

Pharming is committed to our core values: "We Care, We Collaborate, We Walk the Talk", which is complementary to our focus on self-development of our people, teamwork, leadership and being results orientated. In our growing organization, it is important that employees feel connected and engaged. Our core values enable our mission of bringing the unserved rare disease patients the solutions they need and create a clear pathway forward to meet our strategic goals and objectives.

Overview

Pharming is seeking to hire an Attorney (Consultant) to bring legal expertise to our clinical and commercial stage programs. Our goal is to increase the speed of execution, and effectiveness with a dynamic legal support function that is integrated into our clinical, regulatory, managed care, marketing, sales, and patient support departments. Successful execution will involve practical business acumen in researching, assessing, communicating, and coordinating across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

The Attorney (Consultant) will be responsible for a wide variety of matters in support of Pharming's growth:

Core functions include:

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  Drafting and negotiating a broad range of contracts ranging from pre-clinical to clinical and a full range of distribution, managed care, and global R&D agreements.

  
  
• Refine and organize contract templates, standardized provisions, and guidance.
• Monitor developments in laws that impact the company's operations, including U.S. and certain international data privacy and security laws.
• Advise members of our Clinical, Medical, Regulatory and Commercial organization and support functions.
• Assess and revise policies and procedures to ensure compliance, including policies on product promotion, HCP interactions and privacy.
• Advise on legal and regulatory matters across all functions.
• Lead other key projects as needed to support the Legal Department.
• This is a hybrid role; 2 to 3 days per week at our Warren, NJ office.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
• 3+ years of legal experience within the life science industry at a law firm or in-house legal department.
• In-depth knowledge of (a) FDA regulation, (b) government enforcement of prescription drug marketing integrity, and (c) plaintiff tactics in failure-to-warn,
• qui tam, and employment cases.
• Ability to effectively communicate legal requirements and identify legal or compliance related issues.
• Ability to work deeply and collaboratively across multiple departments.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong data management and software skills.

Additional Information

Pharming is committed as an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, color, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

An applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request via email to HR-US@pharming.com.

Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Pharming. Pharming will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Pharming will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Pharming and the agency has been established. The Human Resources/Talent Acquisition department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.

Please note that we review every submission, and we will keep submissions on file for six months.