Philips Head Legal ANZ 

Australia, New South Wales 

127702138

Key responsibilities:

• Managing an ANZ based legal team.

• Be a part of the country management team advising them on all legal matters, strategy and risks.

• Providing legal support on complex transactional deals, risk assessment and management with stakeholders, changes in go-to-market models in the various business segments whether direct or indirect.

• Providing legal support on regulatory related risks, liaising with Quality and Product Business group stakeholders both in ANZ, US, EU and APAC.

• Advising on complex litigation and pre-litigation matters and any regulatory undertakings. Managing outside counsels (OSC) on these complex matters and ensuring that OSC engagement principles are applied to manage costs for all OSC engagement.

• Managing all compliance related matters in ANZ including training and program roll-out, with support from APAC Zone Compliance team. Driving a compliance culture in the ANZ team.

• Be familiar with Data Privacy laws in ANZ and to manage local privacy counsel. You will work with APAC Privacy Counsel in addressing privacy related risks & driving privacy compliant culture in ANZ.

• Supporting the global M&A teams in any M&A related activities that may impact ANZ.

• Supporting the legal team in implementation of new or changes to current laws affecting our business as well as support global projects involving ANZ.

• The Legal Function at Philips ANZ is supported by a qualified Contracts Management Team. The Legal Function manages high value, high risk and strategic matters for the company. You will play a key role in strategic scoping work for the Legal Function and undertake initiatives in the journey to continuously improve productivity in the Legal department.

You’re the right person if:

• Legal experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device/technology or top tier/mid-tier private practice in relevant practice areas is preferred. We will also consider suitable candidates from ICT multinational companies.

• Experience in managing a team of legal professionals will be an advantage. Experience in supporting sales of digital solutions will be an advantage.

• Ideally 12-15 years of post-qualification experience (PQE).

• General corporate commercial experience with a proven foundation in the areas of contract law, Therapeutics Goods Act, Australian Consumer Law, Privacy Law, and some exposure to the Corporations Act.

• Experience in dealing with healthcare regulators will be an added advantage.

• Experience in collaborating with varied business and supporting teams, local management teams, regional & global stakeholders.

• This key role will report directly to the Head of Legal & Compliance for ASEAN-Pacific Zone.