Senior Principal Legal Counsel – Global Commercial
Medtronic
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,400 - $285,600 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide legal guidance on strategies involving ASC partnerships, commercial models, distribution programs, reimbursement trends, and engagement with ASC stakeholders, consistent with ASC market dynamics and business strategy.
- Support contract development and review for ASC offerings, collaborations, facility level programs, and commercial engagements.
- Advise business teams on regulatory and compliance guardrails for ASC-based service models, digital engagement, and operational initiatives.
- Support evaluation, structuring, drafting, and negotiation of strategic partnerships, commercial arrangements, and collaborative activities, including risk assessment and diligence on fraud and abuse and compliance implications.
- Provide legal support for innovative commercial models, distribution structures, portfolio offerings, and cross-functional transactional execution.
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on service, warranty, maintenance, and repair agreements.
- Assess compliance risks related to service offerings and partner with quality, operations, and service teams to align legal and regulatory requirements with field service processes.
- Partner with other functional team members, including the Health Law Center of Expertise (COE), to provide expert guidance on AKS, state fraud laws, False Claims Act, and related enforcement trends.
- Review and advise on pricing, discounting, rebates, service arrangements, and financial interactions with healthcare providers, suppliers, and ASC partners to ensure compliance.
- Support internal reviews, risk assessments, and compliance programs.
- Collaborate closely with compliance, anti-trust, regulatory, quality, and health economics teams on risk mitigation and policy development.
- Provide legal training and practical guidance to business teams, including communication risk management, documentation hygiene, and escalation protocols.
- Serve as primary legal contact and business partner for the GCO.
- Identify, assess, and communicate key contract risks, obligations, and practical mitigation strategies to internal stakeholders.
- Provide legal review of proposed website content, internal and external communications pieces, executive business updates, and other materials.
- In partnership with other subject matter experts, support discussions and negotiations regarding GCO implementation strategies.
- Collaborate closely with Medtronic’s various legal COEs and other legal and compliance professionals, as needed, to deliver the highest quality practical and strategic advice to commercial, finance, and other stakeholders to close deals effectively and compliantly.
- Partner with other stakeholders to build efficient processes, creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, self-help workflows, and document management systems.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor from a nationally recognized US law school
- Licensed to practice law and in good standing under the Bar of at least one state in the United States or in Washington D.C.
- 8+ years of legal experience to include 5+ years of legal experience both advising clients on the laws and regulations relevant to the sale and promotion of healthcare products and services, with specific experience in the ASC segment, as well as negotiating and drafting agreements governing the sale of healthcare products and services.
- Experience supporting Sales and Marketing, with a focus on strategic partnerships related to medical devices and services.
- Extensive experience negotiating and drafting collaborative partnerships, consulting services, data use agreements, capital acquisition programs (sales, leasing, and financing), discount arrangements, partnership agreements, distribution agreements, group purchasing organization agreements, service and repair agreements, other.
- An adept ability to issue spot and effectively communicate complex legal risks, including antitrust and antikickback, simply and clearly to relevant stakeholders.
- Experience providing legal advice and business solutions for data protection, privacy, and security for a large, regulated and matrixed organization.
- Ability to identify high risk situations and provide appropriate guidance, including the ability to make courageous and unpopular decisions in a diplomatic manner.
- Proven ability to manage and execute multiple complex assignments across multiple stakeholder groups within required timelines and expectations.
- Possesses a proactive, customer-centric, solutions-oriented and continuous improvement mindset.
- Confident and humble leadership presence, with a proven ability to influence leadership at all levels of an organization.
- Superior active listening skills and a keen ability to understand the big picture.
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
contract developmentregulatory compliancerisk assessmentnegotiationlegal draftingdata protectionprivacyantitrust lawanti-kickback lawhealthcare regulations
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipproblem-solvingactive listeningstakeholder managementcustomer-centric mindsetsolutions-oriented mindsetcollaborationinfluencedecision-making
Certifications
Juris Doctorlicensed to practice law