Description:
A Healthcare Company Legal Department is seeking a dynamic and collaborative Senior Counsel to join the Privacy team, supporting A Healthcare Company privacy program, clinical research program and real world evidence program. This role will work cross-functionally to deliver novel and strategic solutions to complex issues while mitigating risk. The Senior Counsel, Health Privacy will report directly to A Healthcare Company Global Privacy Counsel and Privacy Officer and work closely with our product development, commercial, clinical quality compliance, marketing, and information security teams. You will counsel executives and product leads on US and ex-US data privacy and security laws and support the maturation of A Healthcare Company global data privacy program. This role requires the ability to work independently and present analysis and counsel to executive leaders and key business stakeholders.You Will:
- Provide timely compliance advice to internal clients on a wide range of matters, including permissible data uses for strategic initiatives and the application of global privacy laws and evolving regulatory guidance to current business processes, new product development, research collaborations and other commercial partnerships
- Support the corporate transactions team in negotiating data use and data protection terms in complex commercial agreements, vendor agreements, data sharing agreements (e.g., DUAs, MTAs, BAAs), clinical trial agreements, and other collaboration agreements covering all stages of a product's life cycle (i.e., research, development and commercialization)
- Support investigation, analysis and remediation of privacy and security incidents
- Assist with the development of policies and procedures, privacy training, and awareness activities to continuously advance A Healthcare Company privacy program
- Working independently, stay up-to-date on new developments in regulatory enforcement activity, new comprehensive state privacy laws, and industry standard privacy practices as well as identify ways to continuously improve templates, forms, processes, and operations.
- Collaborate with the information security team on various data security initiatives, risk management, third party audits/certifications, and vendor assessments
- A US based Law degree from accredited law school and active member of a state bar or registration as in-house counsel
- 7-10 years of privacy and health regulatory experience, ideally with a mix of national law firm experience and prior in-house life sciences experience strongly preferred
- Deep knowledge of data privacy laws and regulations and industry guidelines across global markets, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws (e.g., California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)), genetic information privacy laws, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Extensive experience advising on data sharing, the collection and use of real world data, de-identification, and secondary uses of data
- Experience maintaining components of a global privacy compliance program and supporting privacy by design processes to identify privacy controls for systems and software applications that process personal data
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence governance and use of personal data in artificial intelligence/machine learning products a strong plus
To Be Successful in this role:
- Close working relationships with functional groups and project teams
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal communication and relationship management skills
- Exceptional organizational, planning skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Effective prioritizing and multitasking abilities; triaging a heavy workflow, while setting expectations and delivering results efficiently.
- Sound judgment including appropriate escalation of critical issues to the senior leaders
- Self-motivated and strong sense of initiative, resourceful and efficient with high professional standards
- Resilient, flexible and thrives in a demanding, fast-paced and innovative environment
