At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
**A Day in the Life**:
**Position Description**:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Provides Global legal support for Medtronic's manufacturing plants, advises SVP and Global Head of Manufacturing and Leadership team
- Support Regional legal colleagues on significant issues related to Global Manufacturing and Operations.
- Provides primary legal support and/or oversight to manufacturing plants in Latin America.
- Collaborate closely with business and functional colleagues on investigations, risk management, plant operations, EHS issues, contract compliance, supplier issues and other matters as relevant
- Collaborates closely with Regional and Corporate compliance team for compliance training, investigations and counseling.
- Provides legal advice, counsel and service to internal business clients concerning legal rights, obligations, and privileges of corporations.
- Draws up contracts involving leases, licenses, purchases, sales, real estate, employment, insurance, mergers, acquisitions, marketing and advertising agencies, research and development, and related matters.
- Keeps current on legislative issues, statutes, decisions and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies.
- Examines legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.
- Acts as an agent of corporation in various transactions.
- Advises company regarding concerns on risk assessment and anti-trust regulations.
- Must have admission to practice law.
- May develop, review, or implement company-wide and/or functionally specific training programs.
- May also oversee corporate governance matters and its various committees.
- May work with outside counsel to direct activities.
- Fluency in English/Spanish is required.
**SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM**:Typically, an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower-level professionals. Most of the time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects - from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
**DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS**:
**Autonomy**:Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager. Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists. Ability to independently attending meetings with Senior Leadership. Fluency in Portuguese and other languages is a differentiator.
**Organizational Impact**:Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results. May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
**Innovation and Complexity**:Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation. Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area. Implements solutions to problems.
**Communication and Influence**:Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels. May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
**Leadership and Talent Management**:Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.
**Required Knowledge and Experience**:Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have broad knowledge of project management. Typically requires a Juris Doctorate with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. Manufacturing experience is a must.
PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS - The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is