Senior Director, Corporate Counsel (12 month FTC)

Oxford Biomedica; Oxford; Hybride; GBP 120 000 - 165 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Wellbeing programmes

Career development opportunities

Supportive, inclusive culture

State-of-the-art labs and facilities

Company values: Responsible, Reactive,

Respect

Résumé du poste

OXB (Oxford Biomedica) in Oxford, UK is seeking a Senior Director, Corporate Counsel to join the Legal team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will provide corporate and company secretarial advice, partnering with the Chief Legal Officer to protect the Group and enable its strategy.

The role covers governance, capital markets, M&A, compliance, and regulatory matters, including FTSE listing support. Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with PQE in listed or regulated settings is required.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor with current practising certificate in England and Wales.
• Post-qualification experience in a top law firm or complex listed/regulatory organisation.
• UK corporate law expertise with governance, capital markets, M&A, compliance experience.
• Ability to translate complex regulatory developments into practical, risk-based advice.

Responsabilités

• Provide corporate and company secretarial legal advice with the CLO.
• Assist with FTSE listing requirements and FCA filings.
• Assist with subsidiary management and governance compliance.
• Support debt financing and management of corporate transactions.
• Assist with Data Subject Access Requests.

Connaissances

Qualified solicitor

Post-qualification experience

UK corporate law

Governance & compliance

Regulatory advice

Formation

England & Wales Solicitor Qualification

Description du poste

Senior Director, Corporate Counsel (12 month FTC)

Location: Oxford, GB

Company: oxfordbiom

Join Us in Changing Lives

At OXB, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re on a mission to enable life-changing therapies to reach patients around the world—and we’re looking for passionate individuals who embody our core values every day:Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, and Respectful.

We’re currently recruiting for a Senior Director, Corporate Counsel to join our Legal team on a 12 month fixed-term contract. In this role, you willprovide legal advice on corporate and company secretarial matters, partnering with the Chief Legal Officer to protect the Group, enable delivery of its strategy and maintain high standards of legal compliance playing a key part in advancing our mission and making a real difference.

Your responsibilities in this role would be, inter alia, to:

• Assist CLO and Deputy Co Sec with annual report/interims/corporate updates
• Assist with FTSE listing requirements and FCA filings
• Assist with Group subsidiary management
• Assist with corporate governance compliance with best practice
• Assist with management of debt financing
• Assist with any corporate transactions, to the extent required
• Assist with Data Subject Access Requests

We are looking for:

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales holding a current practising certificate or equivalent professional standing
• Proven post-qualification experience gained in a leading law firm and/or a complex listed or regulated organisation.
• UK corporate law expertise with experience in governance, capital markets, M&A, compliance and managing complex legal matters
• Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory developments into practical, risk-based advice and effective organisational controls.

About Us:

OXB (LSE: OXB) is a global quality and innovation-led contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) in cell and gene therapy with a mission to enable its clients to deliver life changing therapies to patients around the world.

One of the pioneers in cell and gene therapy, OXB has over 30 years of experience in viral vectors, the driving force behind the majority of cell and gene therapies. OXB collaborates with some of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, providing development and manufacturing expertise for lentiviral, AAV, adenoviral, MVA and other viral vectors. Building on its viral vector leadership, OXB also supports the development of emerging in vivo therapies through its expertise in vector engineering, manufacturing platforms, and novel envelope technologies. OXB’s world-class capabilities range from early-stage development to commercialisation. These capabilities are supported by robust quality systems, analytical methods and depth of regulatory expertise.

OXB offers a vast number of technologies for viral vector manufacturing, including a 4th generation lentiviral vector system (the TetraVecta™ system), a dual-plasmid system for AAV production, suspension and perfusion process using process enhancers and stable producer and packaging cell lines.

OXB, a FTSE250 and FTSE4Good constituent, is headquartered in Oxford, UK. It has development and manufacturing facilities across Oxfordshire, UK, Lyon and Strasbourg, France, Bedford MA, and Durham NC, US.

Why Join Us?

• Wellbeing programmesthat support your mental and physical health
• Career development opportunitiesto help you grow and thrive
• Supportive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
• State-of-the-art labs and manufacturing facilities
• A company that lives its values:Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, Respect

We want you to feel inspired every day. At OXB, we’re future-focused and growing fast. We succeed together—through passion, commitment, and teamwork.