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.

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 companys 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 Companys 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.

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 95000 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