Summary of Role
The legal counsel will oversee all legal matters relating to Fresenius Medical Care (“FME”) businesses in Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) and Indonesia. This role will be based in Australia.

Candidates must:

• possess strong leadership and contract negotiation skills with a distinct attention to detail and ability to handle a diverse range of legal issues;
• be confident, articulate, and commercially pragmatic seasoned lawyer;
• be a genuine team player who is quick to establish trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• be adept at operating in a fast-moving and changing environment.

• Serves as a key lawyer in ANZ and Indonesia on all legal matters including provide advice, leading drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts.
• Provide strategic thinking and be a credible and effective legal partner for the business leaders in ANZ and Indonesia to deliver FME’s objective.
• Provide practical, business-oriented strategic advice for all product value streams and the value chains of both the global MedTech (CE) product portfolio as well as lead all legal initiatives for Care Delivery International for the countries in scope.
• Execute strategic agenda and business plans for CE, CD and manufacturing businesses for the countries in scope, taking into account the broader geopolitical, commercial, legal, industry and regulatory nuances and framework.
• Manage disputes, litigious matters (e.g. patient & employee claims, investigations etc.) and regulatory investigations in for the countries in scope.
• Monitor and support in corporate governance looking after the corporate secretarial portfolio for the countries in scope.
• Provide legal support for M&A and restructuring initiatives (if any) for the countries in scope.
• Provide support on data privacy matters for the countries in scope and act as the data privacy officer of the respective countries.
• Provide proactive, strategic and tactical legal advice and support in problem resolution, working as part of a cross functional team in the respective countries on projects and initiatives.
• Prepare and implement appropriate policies, procedures and control mechanism to ensure sufficient guidance, training and monitor system are in place for ANZ, Malaysia and Indonesia.
• Ability to identify opportunities to bring consistency and uniformity to legal work and implementation of initiatives to enhance business operations for the countries in scope.
• Actively participate and collaborate with the rest of the Asia Pacific and Global legal teams in protecting FME’s interest and being an enabler to the business