About This Role
This legal assistant position involves performing legal activities related to clinical operations, business development, and other administrative tasks, including clinical trials agreements. The role requires initiating, communicating, liaising, reporting, updating, coordinating, and collaborating with internal functions and external parties as needed.
Responsibilities
- Draft and timely review contracts, particularly Clinical Trial Agreements and applicable amendments, ensuring compliance with relevant laws, rules, and regulations including the Contracts Act 1950, Personal Data Protection Act 2010, Medical (Amendment) Act 2012, Medical Regulations 2017, and the Malaysian Guideline for Good Clinical Practice
- Draft and review other legal documents such as MOUs, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Professional Service Agreements, Collaborative Agreements, and other Extramural Agreements
- Prepare department's correspondences
- Assist in legal documents LHDN Stamping Adjudication submission
- Manage the archiving, maintenance, and retrieval of legal-related documents, including agreements, correspondence, meeting minutes, and other legal records, ensuring proper record keeping and compliance with the company's document retention policies
- Prepare Legal and Regulatory Affairs Department's meeting minutes
- Assist upon request in ad hoc tasks and works related to the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Department
- Conduct legal research for the Legal and Regulatory Department's publication works
- Become the point of contact for any issue related to the internal Clinical Trial Agreement System (CTA System), internal ADOBE E-Signature software, etc.
- Always keep abreast of any updates related to legal and compliance guidelines and regulatory framework
- Maintain good rapport with industry stakeholders, specifically Clinical Research Associates of multi-national pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations (CRO), and Ministry of Health's medical personnel/officers
- Support the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Department in various undertakings, including handling events related to the department
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in law or equivalent
- At least 1 year working experience in a legal firm or in-house legal department
- Meticulous, detailed-oriented, well-organized, able to work independently to meet strict deadlines, take responsibility for every job assigned, and able to work as a team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent writing skills
- Familiar with legal and contract terminology
- Hardworking, enthusiastic, and capable of handling paperwork
About the Company
Junior Legal & Fresh Graduates are encouraged to apply.
