Job Description

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Position Summary: responsible to provide strategic legal advice and day to day support to the APAC (excluding China) commercial region, served through a combination of direct offices - main ones in Japan, Australia, Singapore and India - and a sales distribution network.

Primary responsibilities of the role include:

• Be the Legal partner of reference for the managements team of the assigned region understanding and addressing local business needs, while securing compliance with applicable rules and regulations
• Draft, review and negotiate agreements regarding day to day operation of assigned geography (distribution/supply/tenders/service/consultancy and other interactions with healthcare professionals/ sponsorships/NDAs etc.)
• Advise on local regulation aspects, including data privacy, labour law and medical device registration issues, in coordination with local external counsels/corporate Data Protection team, as needed
• In coordination with Ethics & Integrity corporate team, secure deployment of group compliance program and alignment with industry codes of practice. Assess local business legal risks and implement mitigating measures.
• Support on setting up new legal entities/recurrent local corporate secretarial work by liaising with local external counsel/central corporate secretarial team as needed
• Securing legal support to group trade compliance program, with a specific focus on compliance with sanctions applicable to countries within assigned geographies (primarily, Iran and Russia)

Experience and Skills required

• Law Degree
• 7-10 years PQE in in-house role or in corporate/commercial department of an international and reputable law firm. Previous experience in the healthcare industry will be considered a plus.
• Previous experience and knowledge of trade sanctions regulations will be considered a plus.
• Highly motivated, client-focused, pragmatic attitude, accountability, hardworking
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritize assignments
• Good oral and written communication skills. Capacity to establish and maintain good working relationship with culturally diverse teams
• Good analytic skills and attention to details
• English mother tongue or excellent level of written and spoken English. Knowledge of other languages such as Mandarin, would be considered a plus.

Location: Singapore with availability to travel on request.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

LivaNova values equality and celebrates diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination.

Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidates sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

Background Checks at LivaNova:

Upon successful completion of the hiring process an offer may be extended. Please note, LivaNova reserves the right to conduct background investigations and/or reference checks on all its potential employees, where permitted by local legislation. This offer therefore, is contingent upon a clearance of such a background investigation and/or reference check, and can be rescinded, where permitted by local legislation, based upon data received in the background check and/or refusal to cooperate with or any attempt to affect the results of this check.

Notice to third party agencies:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

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