Associate Paralegal

Associate Paralegal – Remote (United States)

Central or Eastern time zone preferred.

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives.

The Associate Paralegal will be responsible for assisting in various strategic projects and day-to-day activities to the Legal and/or M&A groups. The incumbent must be a hands-on, results-focused individual with exceptional organizational skills. The paralegal must possess unimpeachable integrity and credibility in order to maintain a high level of confidentiality regarding legal activities.

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

Responsibilities

• Exhibit/recognize the importance of building effective relationships and establishing trust to build collaborative relationships
• Ask appropriate business opportunity questions to make informed and aligned and decisions
• Identify and work to ideal circumstances and outcomes during negotiations
• Avoid using hearsay or personal opinions and negotiate based on valid information from both sides
• Invest time and resources to ensure understanding of the business, its processes and objectives
• Possess an awareness of the impact of own work on the company’s integrity and ethics strategy and adhere to those policies
• Support a respectful diverse and inclusive workplace
• Understand the organization’s system environment and tools
• Understand the key legal, regulatory, ethical and reputational risks in situations facing the business
• Seek out information from the business or market to deeply understand facts in order to support risk management
• Identify resources and efforts around key business deliverables and timelines
• Identify risks associated with projects
• Take ownership of tasks seeking guidance and input from others as appropriate
• Work with deadlines and manages multiple stakeholders
• Identify and communicate roles to avoid confusion and drive accountability
• Align work with the vision, strategy, and priorities of your site or function
• Build and sustain connection with leaders and peers
• Seek challenging assignments, feedback, and diverse perspectives to continue developing
• Engage in open, honest communication with managers and peers
• Assess performance and self- motivate to achieve results
• Push to expand the scope of role; is proactive and seeks new opportunities
• Continually improve systems and processes used to deliver results
• Grow and support team through organizational, market, and industry changes

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED and a minimum of 4 years of related work experience, OR
• AS Degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 2 years of related work experience, OR
• BA/BS Degree or higher in a relevant field

Other Qualifications

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening

Pay Range: $63,000-$78,800/yr.

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.

Key skills/competency

• Associate Paralegal
• Legal Support
• M&A Support
• Contract Management
• Confidentiality
• Organizational Skills
• Relationship Building
• Risk Management
• Compliance
• Process Improvement