About the Role
Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher (major and department not specified).
- Admission to practice law in at least one jurisdiction (Japanese bar admission).
- Native level Japanese proficiency and business level English proficiency (candidates willing to study English are also welcome).
- 2-7 years of experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
- Leadership skills to self-determine actions and involve others.
- Proactive attitude towards learning about the medical device business.
Skills
- Legal advice
- Contract drafting
- Legislative monitoring
- Litigation assessment
- Risk assessment
- Anti-trust regulations
- Corporate governance
- Outside counsel management
Location
- Shinagawa Headquarters
Work Type
- Flextime with no core hours
- Remote work available (subject to change; initial period may require more office presence)
Experience Level
- 2-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Bar admission
Benefits
- 6 weeks of leave for family caregiving or adoption.
- Babysitting and daycare matching services.
- Career development including mentoring programs and e-learning.
- Internal career network supporting women's advancement.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Commuting allowance.
- Overtime allowance.
- Holiday work allowance.
- Annual paid leave.
- Industrial accident leave.
- Menstrual leave.
- Maternity/paternity leave.
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive (Medtronic Incentive Plan - MIP).
About the Company
- Global leader in healthcare technology.
- Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
- Operations in over 150 countries.
- Impacts over 72 million patients annually.
- Legal department acts as a Trusted Business Partner contributing to the Medtronic Mission.
