Legal Director Southern Europe Direct

Intuitive Surgicals EMEA Legal Department acts as an enabling function to:

• Actively support the business in pursuit of sustainable goals;
• Stand for a culture of ethics care and responsibility; and
• Empower surgeons to serve patients.

The position is based at Intuitives offices in Milan Italy. It is a single contributor position reporting to the Sr Associate General Counsel (based at the European head offices in Aubonne Switzerland). In a matrixed subject matter expertise / geographies set-up the position primarily provides and relays legal support to Intuitives activities in Italy and Iberia.

Essential Job Duties

Primary support areas and job duties include:

• Support the transition in Italy and Iberia from distribution markets to direct sales markets.
• Promote Intuitive culture and values in Italy and Iberia
• Ensure compliance of commercial activities in Italy and Iberia with applicable laws including but not limited to anti-corruption laws and standards public procurement laws and competition laws.
• Ensure compliance of commercial activities in Italy and Iberia with Intuitives processes and policies in particular with respect to contracting with healthcare professionals hospitals vendors suppliers or subcontractors.
• Support the day-to-day activities of the commercial teams (e.g. Sales Marketing MACA Public Affairs Customer Training) in Italy and Iberia by giving timely and actionable legal guidance as well as internal trainings (as appropriate).
• Support the day-to-day activities of the back-office functions (e.g. Commercial Solutions Tender Customer Solutions Indirect Procurement Finance Logistics Trade Compliance Customer Service) in Italy and Iberia by giving timely and precise legal guidance as well as internal trainings (as appropriate)
• Collaborate with and support the functions ensuring HCP-Compliance and compliance with local anti-kickback regulations.

The support areas and job duties may vary based on actual needs and priorities in Italy and Iberia. The position will be supported by subject matter expertise within the EMEA Legal Group as well as external consultants on a as needed basis.

Qualifications :

Required Education Skills and Experience

• Qualified in Italy with 12 years of post-qualification professional experience. Law firm experience as well as experience in the medical device sector are preferred.
• Excellent legal drafting skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills in English Italian and Spanish. Portuguese is a plus.
• Ability to drive pragmatic legal outcomes working across jurisdictions to ensure global consistency while allowing for local specificities (comparative law thinking acumen).
• Understanding laws regulations Industry Codes and best practices governing the medical device industry the promotion and sale of medical devices the interactions with healthcare professionals and competent authorities
• Excellent training and presentation skills in English Italian and Spanish.
• Genuine team player.
• Gravitas earning trust and respect from regional business and functional leaders.
• Flawless and unquestionable integrity lived up to and clearly communicated as an integral part of your business acumen with courage determination and clarity of purpose.
• Able to handle pressure when needed and to demonstrate resilience when appropriate.
• Able to learn and understand complex matrixed and dynamic (changing) global organizations.
• Thriving in deliberately diverse and inclusive international working environments.
• Ability to prioritize accurately and to keep focused on a complex changing demanding and fast-paced changing environment.
• In alignment with the line manager: Regular travels to the European head offices in Aubonne Switzerland and the local offices in Madrid Spain. Occasional travels overseas.
• Place of work: Intuitive offices in Milan Italy (office presence rules to be aligned with the line manager and local policies).

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Additional Information :

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time