Senior Counsel – Regulatory

Job Description

Senior Counsel – Regulatory – RTP, NC | BASF

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at BASF, located in Research Triangle Park, NC. The company’s Agricultural Solutions team creates chemistry by providing strategic legal leadership on federal, state, and international laws governing pesticides and products of biotechnology. This role is crucial for advising on critical regulatory, litigation, and policy matters, overseeing high-impact risk areas, and driving the global regulatory legal strategy for the US and Canada.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person RTP, NC
• Team: Global Regulatory Legal group, reporting to the Head of Global Regulatory Legal.
• Mission: To advise BASF’s Agricultural Solutions functions in the US and Canada on critical regulatory, litigation, and policy matters, oversee high-impact risk areas, and drive the global regulatory legal strategy.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Provide strategic legal guidance: Advise the Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Science units in North America and Canada on authorizations and regulation of crop protection, seed, and trait products, including FIFRA data compensation.
• Ensure regulatory compliance: Advise on compliance with requirements for BASF’s portfolio of conventional and biological pesticides, seed treatments, and biotech seeds, supporting new product approvals, managing operational incidents, and defending against enforcement claims.
• Collaborate and represent: Proactively collaborate within the Global Regulatory Legal group to support BASF Agricultural Solutions’ strategic positioning in the US and Canada, and represent the company in law committees of product regulatory trade associations.
• Manage litigation and disputes: Advise on and support litigation and disputes concerning BASF’s License-to-Operate, including FIFRA data compensation proceedings, and provide early alerts on potential litigation risks under North American pesticide and seeds/traits laws.
• Review and draft documents: Review advertising materials for agricultural solutions products to ensure regulatory compliance, and draft/review product regulatory provisions in transactional documents such as stock, asset, goods/services purchase agreements, and confidentiality agreements.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Juris Doctorate degree; active license to practice law in at least one US state or the District of Columbia; deep understanding of the US agricultural industry and agricultural solutions business.
• Experience: At least 15 years’ expertise in a law firm, corporation, or regulatory authority, with a focus on US pesticide and plant biotech law.
• Skills: Exceptional and effective written and oral communication skills, excellent ability to work in a team, a vision for change and impact, ability to identify problems and present creative alternatives and solutions, and outstanding analytical abilities.