Reports to Legal Counsel
Job Summary
The OPEN Health Legal Team provides legal services to the OPEN Health global business across all functions at all levels. The Legal Team wish to recruit a dynamic and ambitious Paralegal to join them in London. As a Paralegal, you will be supporting and working with the Legal Team in areas such as corporate, commercial, day to day administrative work and as per the needs of the business.
Essential Duties amp; Responsibilities
- Preparing and reviewing a variety of company secretarial documents with precision and attention to detail
- Liaising with signatories and arranging signatures of relevant documents
- Maintaining the Company Books and Group structure chart
- Assisting with Know Your Customer and due diligence requests
- Filing client/supplier contracts and capturing all relevant contract information on OH Legal Sharepoint site
- Updating and maintaining standard contract documents/templates
- Reviewing simple contracts (e.g. NDAs) in line with OH contracting guidelines
- Serving as the first point of contact for the Legal Team
- Monitoring the Legal Inbox, responding and escalating accordingly
- Conducting legal research, including regulations, case law, and precedents
- Ensuring compliance with relevant company laws and regulations
- Liaising and managing internal stakeholders and external providers
- Following all applicable standard operating procedures and internal policies and processes
- Calendar management, organizing and maintaining files/OH Legal SharePoint site
Experience, Skills, and Qualifications
- Educated to degree level from a reputable university, min 2:1 (essential)
- Passed Legal Practice Course (LPC) OR law degree
- Previous paralegal/legal assistant/contract management experience gained in a law firm or in-house environment
- High Level of IT Proficiency (preferably with advanced level experience with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and basic experience of MS Sharepoint)
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills
- Developing and maintaining good working relationships with internal and external clients
- Good organisational skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- An enthusiastic, can-do attitude and ability to remain calm in a fast-paced environment
Travel Requirements
- You will need to come to the London office up to 2/3 days per week
About OPEN Health
OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient well-being. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.
OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.
What we offer:
As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program
- Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations
- Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path
- An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program
- The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing
- Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work
If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.