EMEA Legal Director MiniMed

Medtronic; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare technology leader is seeking an experienced Legal Director to shape and lead the legal strategy across the EMEA region. This role requires 10 years of legal experience, ideally within the healthcare sector, and involves providing strategic counsel, overseeing compliance, managing disputes, and mentoring legal professionals. The successful candidate will collaborate across various business functions, promoting a culture of compliance and driving legal excellence. This is a full-time position based in Greater London, offering competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Short-term incentive plan (MIP)

Long-term incentive plan

Qualifications

• Proven ability to influence leadership at all levels.
• Strong ethical character and integrity.
• Ability to identify high-risk situations and provide guidance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the regional legal strategy for MiniMed.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across functions.
• Oversee commercial disputes and investigations.

Skills

Leadership gravitas

Excellent written communication

Financial acumen

Ability to manage complex projects

Experience in healthcare industry

Education

10 years of legal experience

Job description

Overview

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. Were committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions are designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health helping them achieve better glucose control while spending less time managing their disease.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronics Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

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Role Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Legal Director to lead and shape Medtronics legal strategy across the EMEA region. This role is both regional and functional in nature balancing leadership of a small legal team with hands-on strategic counsel to business leaders and functional partners. The successful candidate will serve as a key member of the Legal Leadership Team driving excellence compliance and operational integrity across a diverse and dynamic market landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Legal Strategy & Leadership: Develop, implement and continuously enhance MiniMeds regional legal strategy and overarching legal program ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations while enabling business growth.
• Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across commercial, HR, finance, regulatory and clinical functions providing pragmatic and business-savvy legal advice to advance strategic priorities.
• Commercial Legal Counsel: Represent MiniMeds legal interests across EMEA, managing a broad portfolio of contracts, negotiations and business initiatives with a focus on risk mitigation and ethical business conduct.
• Team Development: Lead, mentor and develop a team of legal professionals across the region, fostering professional growth, collaboration and alignment with Medtronics mission and values.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay abreast of evolving healthcare regulations and ensure adherence to all relevant laws, policies and ethical standards across jurisdictions.
• Dispute & Litigation Management: Oversee commercial disputes and investigations, engaging and managing external counsel where necessary and ensuring timely, effective resolution.
• Training & Education: Promote a culture of compliance by developing and delivering training programs to enhance employee understanding of legal and ethical obligations.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor and assess legal risks, develop proactive mitigation strategies and continuously enhance processes, documentation and program effectiveness.
• Spin-Off / Separation Activities: Lead legal workstreams supporting the separation of the Diabetes business including entity creation, corporate governance setup and transition services agreements (TSAs).
• Advise on structuring contracting and risk allocation to enable a smooth transition to standalone operations.
• Collaborate with Global Separation Management Office (SMO), Finance, HR and Compliance to ensure Day 1 legal readiness and continuity of operations.
• Manage cross-border complexities related to licenses, contracts, intellectual property and employment law through the transition period.

Minimum Requirements

Must Haves: 10 years of legal experience. Experience in a law firm, corporate legal department or in-house counsel role.

Your Profile / Desired Qualifications

• Healthcare industry experience (pharma, medical device, diagnostics, life sciences, etc.).
• Leadership gravitas and a proven ability to influence leadership at all levels of an organization.
• Adept ability to issue spot with a solution-oriented and continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to identify high risk situations and provide appropriate guidance, including the ability to make bold and courageous decisions.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple complex projects across multiple stakeholder groups and countries within required timelines and expectations.
• Managerial experience and expertise with onsite and remote team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Financial and business acumen.
• Courage, integrity and strong ethical character.
• Strong understanding of and ability to demonstrate the following cultural norms: act boldly; compete to win; move with speed & decisiveness; foster belonging; and deliver results the right way.
• Reasonable travel will be expected.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people.

We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) and for an annual long-term incentive plan.

Required Experience: Director

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Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1