Senior Associate General Counsel, Life Sciences (Remote)

Worldwide Clinical Trials; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 201,000 - 399,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldwide Clinical Trials seeks an Associate General Counsel, Legal to lead complex legal matters across a global CRO environment. You will partner with the General Counsel and senior leaders to provide risk-based guidance and drive scalable, compliant operations.

In this remote role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams across Clinical Operations, Compliance, Data Privacy, and Business Development to protect participants, optimize sponsor relationships, and enable responsible

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active license.
• 8–12+ years of progressively responsible legal experience, including significant in‑house leadership within a CRO/pharma/regulated life sciences environment.
• Experience supporting complex clinical research services, sponsor contracting, regulated operations, and global legal or compliance matters.
• Strong expertise in master services agreements, statements of work, change orders, clinical research agreements, data protection agreements, and related sponsor‑facing arrangements.
• Working knowledge of global clinical research regulations, GxP requirements, data privacy and security obligations, healthcare compliance, and research‑related contracting.
• Proven leadership, coaching, delegation, and change‑management capabilities within a global, matrixed organization.
• Excellent legal judgment, business acumen, executive‑level communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple high‑priority matters while delivering practical, risk‑calibrated solutions.
• Proficiency in English and strong competency with Microsoft 365, legal technology platforms, workflow automation tools, analytics, and responsible AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Advise the General Counsel and senior leadership on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and reputational risk matters.
• Lead strategic legal subject‑matter areas and deliver practical guidance that supports business objectives, risk tolerance, and global operations.
• Oversee the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex clinical research and sponsor‑facing agreements while balancing risk and commercial outcomes.
• Partner with Business Development, Finance, Clinical Operations, and other stakeholders to streamline contracting processes and accelerate business performance.
• Collaborate with Quality, Data Privacy, Information Security, Regulatory, and Compliance teams to address GxP, privacy, data integrity, and regulatory obligations.
• Support enterprise risk management activities, investigations, compliance initiatives, governance programs, and escalation of significant legal risks.
• Provide legal support for mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, corporate governance matters, disputes, and other key business initiatives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop legal professionals while advancing operational excellence through processes, metrics, technology, automation, and knowledge management.

Skills

Executive communication

Contract negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

English proficiency

Education

Juris Doctor / equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

Legal tech platforms

Workflow automation tools

Job description

Worldwide Clinical Trials seeks an Associate General Counsel, Legal to lead complex legal matters across a global CRO environment. You will partner with the General Counsel and senior leaders to provide risk-based guidance and drive scalable, compliant operations.

In this remote role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams across Clinical Operations, Compliance, Data Privacy, and Business Development to protect participants, optimize sponsor relationships, and enable responsible