GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

The Associate General Counsel, Compliance will head the legal compliance team and serve as a key partner to the Commercial and Medical Affairs teams. He/she will help define the compliance program and serve on various review committees, including providing ongoing training and seeking ways to mitigate risks across the company. The Compliance Attorney will also help weigh in on other compliance risks as needed (HR, enterprise risk, etc.). Additional projects potentially include Enterprise Risk, Business Continuity and COVID-19 team management.

You will:

• Lead the compliance function within Legal, including helping establish policies with respect to US healthcare compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption. Establish and operationalize compliance SOPs and provide ongoing training.
• Support the Commercial organization in marketing claims, contracting and day-to-day activities, including:
• Provide mentorship on promotional and non-promotional practices under statutory and regulatory requirements as well as GRAIL internal policies.
• Assist in the monitoring of GRAIL-organized or GRAIL-sponsored commercial events and activities, as well as ensuring that the necessary documentation is produced, kept and maintained, and reviewing promotional materials relating to commercial events.
• Support the Medical Affairs organization in reviewing non-promotional materials and establishing guidelines for commercial and medical events.
• Partner closely and interact effectively with internal clients (e.g., Medical Affairs, Commercial) to understand business challenges and provide compliance guidance, counseling, and solutions to address the challenges.
• Establish and periodically update policies, procedures, training, and monitoring in relation to interactions with healthcare professionals (HCP) and other third parties, to ensure they appropriately reflect relevant legal and regulatory requirements; implement training in a manner that ensures understanding and applicability of requirements. Help develop/optimize processes for tracking and streamlining HCP payments.
• Implement an internal audit, investigations and monitoring function. Coordinate the development and implementation of corrective actions as required.
• Review and update Code of Conduct and Employee Handbook to ensure continuing relevance in providing guidance to management and employees.
• Perform Enterprise-wide Risk Assessments to identify areas of potential compliance vulnerability and risk, develop and implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues, and provide general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
• Institute and maintain an effective compliance communication program for the organization, including promoting: (a) use of a compliance hotline; (b) heightened awareness of Code of Conduct, and (c) understanding of new and existing compliance issues and related policies and procedures.
• Advise on ex-US healthcare compliance requirements, including United Kingdom and Europe.

Your background should include:

• U.S. Law degree required
• 7+ years of relevant experience in-house in the life sciences industry and/or law firm (preferably both).
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal communication and relationship management skills.
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills and a meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work in a self-guided manner while exercising initiative, flexibility and good judgment.
• Collaborative standout colleague.
• Strong desire to improve processes and grow.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

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