Legal Counsel, UPS Healthcare Precision Logistics

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Job Description:

The Legal Counsel, UPS Healthcare Precision Logisticsserves as a trusted legal advisor to a global healthcare precision logistics platform, providing guidance on complex commercial, operational, regulatory, strategic, and risk management matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Support business operations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, coordinating with global stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Lead negotiation of high-value customer agreements, strategic partnerships, and complex commercial transactions.
• Advise business leaders on legal, regulatory, and commercial risks.
• Manage escalations from contract managers.
• Support disputes, claims, pre-litigation matters, and customer issue resolution.
• Advise on new products, services, and business initiatives.
• Partner with the broader UPS legal teams on employment, litigation, privacy, M&A, compliance, and IP matters.
• Draft and review legal policies and templates.
• Support regulatory, quality, healthcare, and pharmaceutical distribution, data privacy, and compliance matters affecting highly regulated life sciences operations.
• Deliver training to business stakeholders.
• Drive process improvements and legal operations initiatives.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) and active U.S. bar license.
• 5 - 8 yearsof post-qualificationexperience, including at least 3 years of in-house legal experience.
• Significant commercial contracting experience.
• Strong business judgment and pragmatic risk assessment skills.
• Experience supporting international markets
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced global environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting healthcare, pharmaceutical, logistics, transportation, or regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Clinical trial logistics.
• Pharmaceutical distribution.
• Regulatory compliance.
• Cross-border transactions.
• Global commercial contracting.

Additional Information

• Position location: Must be located in or willing to self-relocate to Raleigh/Durham, NC

Employee Type:

UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Other Criteria:

UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis ofrace/color/religion/sex/nationalorigin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Basic Qualifications:

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer.