Principal Legal Counsel
Principal Legal Counsel
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Job Description
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
Bring your talents to a leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions. Rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation our medical technologies open doors. We support your growth with the training mentorship and guidance you need to own your future success.Join Medtronic where you can act boldly with speed and decisiveness while delivering the right results and foster belonging. Start engineering your career with Medtronic today!
Medtronic is among the worlds largest medical technology services and solutions companies. Our Legal department which spans the globe is looking for a legal counsel with diversified legal experience strong business acumen and a positive and proactive attitude to join our Canadian legal team.
The ideal candidate will have substantive corporate commercial experience with an interest in health privacy and competition law. This individual will work across Medtronic businesses to: (i) advise on diverse issues including complex legal questions commercial contracts competitive public procurement processes product liability and transactions/M&A (ii) support business opportunities and mitigate risks (iii) maintain compliance with internal policies such as our Business Conduct Standards and (iv) contribute to high-level policy decision- making. Legal counsel must possess strong legal skills and be able to effectively interact with all levels of employees including a variety of internal and external cross-functional support. This role requires a high level of professionalism and responsiveness to business stakeholders in a large dynamic and fast-paced environment.
This position can reside in our office locations of either Brampton Pointe-Claire or Vancouver or work remote within Canada.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Provides legal advice counsel and service to internal business clients concerning legal rights obligations and privileges of corporations.
- Drafts reviews and negotiates various commercialagreements anddocuments.
- Keeps current on legislative issues statutes decisions and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies.
- Provides legal guidance on policies procedures legislation and business practices.
- Identifies anticipates and helps mitigate key legal risks.
- Collaborates with subject matter experts on commercial regulatory and compliance matters to build consensus or resolves legal and business issues.
- Efficiently manages and drives multiple projects to completion.
- Works with outside counsel to direct activities.
MUST HAVE: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Law Degree with strong academic credentials in Common and/or Civil Law from a duly accredited Canadian law school
- Member in good standing of a Canadian Bar/Law Society
- 5years of legal experience with experience in corporate and commercial law
NICE TO HAVE
- Previous in-house experience with medical device or other life science company would be an asset
- Excellent command of English and French languages.
- Strong business acumen good common sense and sound judgment
- Exceptional analytical negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Works independently yet team-oriented
- Able to work in a complex matrixed structure
- Capable of inspiring trust and confidence of client groups
- Able to multi-task in fast-paced environment with excellent project management skills
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
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
