Executive Administrator - Legal

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Position Summary:

This position will report to Bio-Techne’s General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and will support a collaborative, collegial, service-oriented team of six attorneys and two paralegals. This role will be responsible for day-to-day administrative support of the Legal team across a diverse range of responsibilities and activities. Responsibilities will include assisting the administration and coordination of the legal and compliance activities of the Legal team, including supporting the General Counsel’s interactions with the Board of Directors, assisting with outside counsel matter and invoice management, managing and organizing governance of the Company’s global legal entities, managing meetings and scheduling team events, promoting and supporting a productive and supportive team culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• This role will be integral in helping the Legal team serve the business, including organizing team activities, planning Board activities, preparing Board meeting materials, supporting the Company’s global corporate governance activities, supporting the management of outside legal counsel, and other important administrative tasks. 
• Lead the management of Bio-Techne’s global legal entities’ governance, including holding meetings, appointing board members, and ensuring legal compliance
• Develop, maintain and organize Board materials and calendar of Board activities
• Maintaining and organizing legal team references and resources
• Perform substantive and critical review of documents, exercising judgment to ensure efficient and thoughtful escalation
• Maintain and manage contracts, and support efficient use of the Company’s contract management system
• Support Company compliance activities
• Undertake other projects as requested

Required Experience and Proficiencies:

This role requires at least seven years’ previous relevant experience, including at least three years of experience providing administrative support to a corporate legal function. 

Required proficiencies, familiarity, and capabilities are as follows:

• Proficient in the MS Office suite
• Familiarity and/or capability with at least one of the following types of Legal team tools, plus the aptitude and enthusiasm to learn the remainder:
  • Expense management software (i.e. Concur)
  • Legal matter management and billing software (i.e. Legal Tracker)
  • Board management and corporate governance software (i.e. Diligent)
  • Contract management software
  • Sharepoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with global entity management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong organizational skills
• Eager to learn about the people, processes, and structure for our diverse, growing, complex business
• Passion for learning new subjects and systems
• Willingness to speak up and contribute to team challenges
• Enthusiasm for promoting inclusion and belonging within the team and across the enterprise
• Confidence to appreciate candid feedback and respectful criticism
• Pride of ownership over work product and contributions to the team’s contributions
• Effective, confident, empathetic written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to handle sensitive and proprietary information with discretion and confidentiality.