We are seeking a passionate Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in supporting Ascendis Pharma’s activities across the full product lifecycle – from early discovery through pre-clinical research, development, and clinical testing of Ascendis Pharma’s prodrug therapies, and on through commercial manufacturing and product supply. Ascendis Pharma contracts with a broad variety of service providers, vendors, and commercial partners such as laboratories, manufacturers (CMOs), clinical research organizations (CROs), hospitals, universities, health care professionals, and commercial supply chain partners, requiring many different types of contracts with a wide range of legal considerations, but all with the same overall purpose of developing and delivering new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. The R&D Legal team’s scope also extends beyond classic R&D activities into other areas of the business such as IT, connected health, and digital health solutions giving you broad exposure across Ascendis Pharma. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results.
You will be joining the R&D Legal team currently consisting of 5 colleagues, and report directly to Sara Weiss, Head of R&D Legal,who is based in Hellerup, Copenhagen*.* You will also be based in Hellerup, Copenhagen.