Junior Legal Counsel

Job ID: 57546- Location: Lachen, CH- Job Level: Professionals- Job Category: Legal- Employment Type: Permanent position- Career Level:
Do you want to combine the opportunities that a global company provides with the benefits of a family-owned business? Headquartered in Lachen near Zurich, Switzerland, the Octapharma Group is a leading company in the worldwide market for therapeutic human proteins. Working at Octapharma means to have an opportunity to contribute to our common goal - developing lifesaving therapies to improve patients’ lives.

**What's the best thing about working with us?**:

- You help save lives - Every day is meaningful as we produce life-saving medicines
- Family values - Long-term perspective for employees and relationships
- Be rewarded with an attractive salary and benefits package
- You will have a high level of influence where you can make a difference and leave your footprint
- Work with skilled and fun colleagues in a relatively informal organization
- Skills development - We offer various internal and external employee and leadership trainings, trainee programs and digital solutions

***What will you be doing as Junior Legal Counsel?**:

- Support the Corporate Data Protection Officer in data protection topics
- Clinical trial support (legal advice, contract review, data protection topics)
- Support of the organization in certain legal and organizational tasks
- Analyze and review contracts with and for the respective departments
- Provide legal advice to corporate functions and local subsidiaries

***Who are you?**:

- University degree in law
- Preferably a background in the healthcare industry, notably in clinical trials and/or data protection
- Analytical skills with strong result orientation
- Motivated, friendly and team spirit attitude
- Strong project management skills and service-orientation
- Native in German and excellent command of English, further language skills are an asset

***If you proceed in the process**:

- We will endeavor to review your profile as quickly as possible and provide you with feedback
- The next step is to conduct a phone interview, which takes about 30 minutes.

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**About Octapharma**:
Headquartered in Lachen, Switzerland, Octapharma is one of the largest human protein manufacturers in the world, developing and producing human proteins from human plasma and human cell lines.

Octapharma employs nearly 12,000 people worldwide to support the treatment of patients in 118 countries with products across three therapeutic areas: Immunotherapy, Haematology and Critical Care.

Octapharma has seven R&D sites and five state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden, and operates more than 195 plasma donation centres across Europe and the US. Octapharma has 40 years of experience in patient care.