Job Description:
The Legal team is accountable for overseeing the legal aspects of the organization, including providing strategic legal guidance across the business, handling disputes, and developing and enforcing intellectual property.
The Legal Team plays a critical role in the organization by advising and enabling commercial teams with legal advice and representation while safeguarding the interests of the company. Your client base will encompass commercial groups across the Asia Pacific Region, encompassing revenue, marketing, product marketing (pricing, promotion, and positioning), and commercial transformation. This role works closely with the Global Legal Team, Product Legal, Privacy teams, Global Contracts Management teams, Corporate Legal function, corporate finance, corporate governance, compliance, investments, and acquisitions. The Global Legal Team also supports litigation and other dispute resolution. Additionally, the department provides education and awareness to client groups on relevant laws and practices.
As the Legal Director, APAC Commercial, this position is the subject matter expert for all commercial legal affairs within the Asia Pacific Region, leader of the Legal Commercial Team in APAC, and an integral part of the Asia Pacific Revenue and Marketing management teams. Reporting directly to the Vice President and General Counsel, Global Revenue and Marketing, this leadership role ensures the effective delivery of legal services to operational commercial groups within the Asia Pacific Region by advising and enabling clients to achieve their business objectives while safeguarding the interests of the company.
In addition to these individual responsibilities, this role will work in partnership with other members of the global legal team to ensure a collaborative, specialized, and world-class legal affairs group.
Key Responsibilities:
* Oversee advice and support for commercial teams and all commercial activities (including business-to-business and direct-to-consumer) across the Asia Pacific region.
* Manage a team of lawyers located in various countries across the APAC region (Australia, China, and Korea).
* Partner with senior commercial management and play a key role in senior commercial leadership teams across the APAC region.
* Analyze the organization's regional legal and corporate risk; offering alternatives and recommendations as required (including external party transactions & extraordinary correspondence).
* Draft and negotiate major commercial contracts in support of commercial activities across the APAC region, in collaboration with, and with the support of, the Global Contracts Management teams.
* Advise and support, and oversee the advice and support for, commercial activities including Sales, eCommerce, Distribution, commercial transformation, Marketing (including pricing, promotion, and positioning strategies), Medical Affairs, and Compliance.
* Advise on innovative go-to-market strategies including novel pathways to reach patients in non-traditional ways with focus on development and implementation of strategic and operational objectives that help achieve organizational mission and departmental goals.
* Coordinate activities with global counterparts to deliver repeatable and predictable legal advice to commercial clients, other global commercial lawyers, and global commercial offerings. Provide support in the APAC Region to other legal functions including Product Legal, Privacy, Contracts Management, Litigation, Strategy, and Ventures, Employment.
* Provide education and awareness to client groups on relevant laws and practices.
* Oversee a legal budget and engagement of outside legal counsel.
* Attend to special projects assigned from time to time.
* Ad hoc travel across the APAC region and to the US.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Communication: Communicates in an open, candid, and direct manner; an excellent writer and compelling speaker in small and large audiences; shares timely and factual information with supervisor and other stakeholders on progress and results; fluent English language.
* Talent Development: Stays current in area of expertise; holds self-accountable for continued growth.
* Business Acumen: Plans and acts based on a clear understanding of relevant business/market/industry data; supports decision making at the level closest to the issue; business solutions-oriented, practical, and possessing a sense of urgency.
* Teamwork: Works collaboratively within and across business, functions, and regions; personable, with a good sense of humor.
* Results Orientation: Drives projects to optimal conclusion; recognizes the need to track and measure performance and results.
* Leadership: Demonstrates ownership of challenges or issues and takes appropriate action; demonstrates willingness to take initiative, solve problems, and make decisions.
* Customer Focus: Demonstrates commitment to understanding and meeting customer needs.
* Innovation: Incorporates new ideas into current practices and area of expertise; thinks independently and challenges the way we do things; flexible and adaptive mind; a systems thinker.
* Interpersonal Effectiveness: Values people's differences in background, culture, pursuit of work/life balance, and perspective; acts in accordance with ResMed's ethical principles and cultural values.
* Functional Competencies: Provision of Legal Services
* Position Specific Skills: Honesty, integrity, and ethics essential; excellent verbal communication skills and written expression in both French and English; good conceptual thinking ability; computer literate on all Microsoft packages.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Minimum: Degree in law, holding legal license, mastering common law; minimum 15 years legal experience with proven leadership in law firm or publicly traded company; fluent English (written and spoken).
* Desirable: Additional qualification or experience in technology organizations and/or life sciences with a focus on digital healthcare.
Benefits:
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