The Legal team is responsible for managing the legal affairs of the company, including providing legal counsel across the organization, handling disputes, and creating and enforcing intellectual property.

LET’S TALK ABOUT QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE :

• Degree in law, holding current license to practice preferably in the UK.
• Significant legal experience with proven leadership in law firm or publicly-traded company.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Additional qualification or experience in technology organisations and/or life sciences with a focus on digital healthcare is desirable.

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ROLE :

As Senior Legal Counsel / Legal Director, Northern Europe you will oversee all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization’s legal affairs within ResMed’s Northern Europe country market group (CMG) and across Europe (as part of the European Legal Team). The Northern Europe CMG comprises UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland, Czech, Middle East, Greece and South Africa.
Reporting directly to the Legal Director EMEA Commerci al, you will be an integral part of the Northern Europe CMG management team and a senior member of the European Legal Team.
The Legal Team performs a critical role in the business by supporting and advising the operations and governance teams with legal advice and representation.
Your client base will be the corporate and operational groups with primary focus on Northern Europe, and groups across Europe (as part of the European Legal Team), embracing marketing, sales and service, IP and technology, privacy and, to a lesser degree, R&D and manufacturing.
This job also supports, as part of the Global Legal Team, corporate finance, corporate governance and compliance, privacy, investments and acquisitions.
The Legal Team also supports litigation and other dispute resolution. Additionally, the department provides education and awareness to client groups on relevant laws and practice.

LET’S TALK ABOUT RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Analyze the organization’s regional legal and corporate risk; offering alternatives and recommendations as required including external party transactions & extraordinary correspondence).
• Drafting and negotiating major contracts; including purchasing, sales agreements and leased properties within the Northern Europe CMG (primarily) and the European region (secondarily).
• Assist with providing ad hoc advice on internal processes & projects for all Northern Europe and some European business groups (including Sales, eCommerce, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Marketing, Privacy, SAAS, Medical Affairs and IT).
• Provide timely legal guidance on commercial legal affairs in Northern Europe (and to the European-wide business as part of the European Legal Team).
• Advise on various legal compliance matters, including GDPR and European Competition laws and laws related to medical affairs and devices.
• Provide education and awareness to client groups on relevant laws and practice.
• Provide advice to Human Resources on employment law matters.
• Provide litigation support, as required Manage a legal budget and outside legal counsel.
• Attend to special projects assigned from time to time.