Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel

About this role

Azenta Inc.

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity

Job Title Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel

Job Description At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships. 

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally.   We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing millions of samples globally.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Sr. Director, Assistant General Counsel serves as a senior leader within Azenta's Legal Department and as one of the General Counsel's principal deputies. Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, this role provides strategic legal counsel and executive-level business partnership across a broad spectrum of legal, compliance, employment, contracting, litigation, governance, and operational matters affecting a global public company.

Unlike a specialist role focused on a single legal discipline, this position is intended for a highly capable legal generalist who can successfully navigate a diverse range of legal and business challenges while exercising strong judgment, influencing senior leaders, and delivering practical, risk-based solutions that enable business objectives. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and business partners throughout the organization, helping to shape decisions that affect the Company's people, operations, risk profile, culture, and long-term strategic direction.

The Sr. Director, Assistant General Counsel will lead the Company's labor and employment, compliance, and commercial contracting functions as well as significant portions of the litigation management function while also helping drive operational excellence within the Legal Department. The role requires a leader who can effectively manage other lawyers and legal professionals, develop talent, improve processes, leverage technology, and create a culture of responsiveness, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will possess the intellectual curiosity, enterprise mindset, leadership capability, and business acumen necessary to grow into increasingly broader leadership responsibilities over time. This individual should be capable of understanding and balancing legal, operational, financial, commercial, regulatory, reputational, and human capital considerations while serving as a strategic partner to the global leaders of the Company's operating businesses.

KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA

Strategic Business Partner Serve as one of the Company's principal business-facing attorneys, providing practical legal advice across the full spectrum of legal and operational issues confronting a global life sciences company. The successful candidate will be expected to use broad and sound legal judgment to assess unfamiliar issues quickly, identify key risks and opportunities, coordinate specialist resources when necessary, and deliver actionable business advice in a timely manner: • Advise the leaders of the operating businesses regarding legal, commercial, operational, compliance, and strategic matters. • Provide rapid, practical guidance on novel and emerging issues. • Know when to provide direct guidance, when to engage subject matter experts, and how to calibrate legal advice to the significance and risk profile of the issue presented. • Support major commercial, operational, and strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

Employment Law, Employee Relations & Workplace Risk Serve as the Legal Department's lead attorney for employment and labor matters globally, partnering closely with Human Resources and business leadership to manage legal risk while supporting organizational objectives: • Advise on employee relations matters, workplace investigations, performance management, disability accommodations, leaves of absence, compensation issues, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, executive separations, and workforce restructuring activities. • Manage employment litigation, administrative proceedings, demand letters, agency charges, and pre-litigation disputes. • Direct outside labor and employment counsel worldwide, ensuring effective legal strategy, consistent legal positions, and efficient management of legal spend. • Support global employment compliance initiatives and policy development across U.S. and international jurisdictions. • Provide practical, risk-based guidance to managers and HR professionals on complex workplace matters.

Commercial Contracts & Business Transactions Lead and oversee the Company's commercial contracting function and contracts team: • Partner with commercial and operational leaders to resolve contractual issues and accelerate business execution. • Advise on and negotiate complex customer, supplier, services, software, SaaS, licensing, distribution, procurement, consulting, confidentiality, and strategic partner agreements. • Continuously improve contracting strategies, processes, templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and ap

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