Legal Counsel II

Medtronic; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology company, Medtronic, is seeking a Legal Counsel to join their Sydney office. The role involves providing high-quality legal advice, managing contracts, and collaborating with teams to ensure compliance with various regulations. Candidates should possess a valid law degree and at least five years of experience, ideally in the pharmaceutical or medical device sectors.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Short-term incentive plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years PQE experience is required.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry preferred.
• Eligibility to hold an Australian State practicing certificate necessary.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts with various stakeholders.
• Provide legal advice on regulatory and compliance issues.
• Participate in improving the processes within the Legal Team.

Skills

Strong verbal and written communication

Analytical skills

Business partnering focus

Ability to multi-task

Education

Australian or New Zealand Law degree

Tools

MS Office suite

Job description

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

A Day in the Life

We are a learning culture. An inventive and collaborative group. We are dedicated to making sure that every patient gets the best product — when they need it. We have strong ties to our local communities. Our vibrant employee communities respect and value individual experience and perspective as we aim to improve lives and the access to healthcare.

Reporting to the Legal Director, you will join as part of the Legal team in Sydney office, to provide high quality legal advice and services concerning the company’s legal rights, obligations, risks, and privileges.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of contracts with customers, healthcare professionals, suppliers, and third-party intermediaries on behalf of the Company.

• Provide legal advice in relation to claims, disputes, litigation, privacy, regulatory and competition law issues in ANZ.

• Review of promotional materials to ensure compliance with advertising laws, regulations, and internal company guidelines.

• Provide updates, presentations, metrics or reports to various Leadership Teams.

• Keep current on legislative issues, statutes, decisions, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies, compliance legislation and codes.

• Actively participate in the creation and/or maintenance of the Legal Team internal and business facing Knowledge Management system.

• Actively participate in Legal Operations activities including preparing and delivering training materials, internal marketing, digital signage, Legal Team profiling and events.

• Actively improve team processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of the Legal Team.

• Ensuring that ethical and corporate compliance obligations of Medtronic are met with respect to external requirements (MTAA/MTANZ Code of Practice, US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Anti-Corruption legislation) and internal requirements (Medtronic Code of Conduct, Business Conduct Standards (BCS), Risk Management System, and compliance related Corporate Policies, Procedures and Processes).

• Provide assistance to the EurAsia Legal Team in relation to EurAsia projects and initiatives, when requested.

• Work independently under limited supervision to determine and develop solutions to moderately complex problems.

• Strong and respectful interaction and leadership is necessary with all levels of the Company’s sales, marketing, and functional teams.

• Deliver and/or manage large projects as assigned and work with other stakeholders to achieve desired results while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education. Contribute to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreement.

• Communicate with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Demonstrate an awareness of potential biases and intercultural issues and a willingness to address them. Listen closely and effectively. Ask clear and appropriate follow-up questions. Provide direct answers. Respond to clients promptly.

• Encourage ethical behaviour at all times and protect the corporation from exposure and that would be generated if unacceptable risks are taken.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• A Australian or New Zealand Law degree and must have been admitted to any Australian State roll of legal practitioners and be eligible to hold an Australian State practicing certificate.

• At least 5+ years PQE experience.

• Experience in an in-house team in the pharmaceutical or medical device industries is preferred.

• The ability to work effectively across geographic and functional boundaries.

• A strong work ethic and an exceptional business partnering focus

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong attention to detail, strong analytical skills

• Flexibility to prioritise effectively to meet the variety and complexity of demands needed.

• Ability to multi-task and manage complexity and take a solution focused approach

• Keen to learn, enthusiastic, friendly, self-motivated, team-oriented and positive, open to change, innovative

• Sound knowledge of the MS Office suite of software.

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). 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