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Description:
Job Description:
Overview:
Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries. Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
We are seeking a commercially minded attorney to support our U.S. legal contracting function. You will negotiate a broad portfolio of life sciences and technology agreements, advise business teams in practical terms, and help deliver a disciplined, scalable contracting experience through clear templates, playbooks, and escalation standards. You will have meaningful ownership of matters appropriate to your experience, with senior support for novel, high-risk, or strategically significant issues. Legal owns the contracting framework and legal terms. Commercial Operations continues to populate and execute order forms and task orders within Legal-approved templates. Draft, review, and negotiate master services agreements, commercial and service agreements, SaaS and software license agreements, data privacy agreements and DPAs, vendor and consulting agreements, reseller agreements, development/developer agreements, and amendments, escalating novel or high-risk issues as appropriate. Manage assigned matters from intake through signature, maintaining clear status, required approvals, and organized matter records. Apply Legal playbooks, templates, approval thresholds, and fallback positions consistently; identify recurring issues that should be addressed through updated guidance, templates, or process improvements. Advise business stakeholders in plain language and collaborate closely with Sales, Finance, Privacy, Security, Procurement, and Commercial Operations. Review revisions that introduce legal or complex commercial terms, including revisions to evaluation agreements, and route matters for senior escalation when needed. Support Legal ownership of order form and task order templates, including quality checks and controlled self-service.
Respect the operating boundary:
Commercial Operations populates and executes order forms and task orders; Legal owns the framework, legal terms, templates, and escalations. Contribute to knowledge management, training, metrics, template maintenance, playbook updates, and alternative legal talent/provider coordination. Balance contract velocity and risk using sound judgment, strong organization, and responsive stakeholder communication.
