Legal Counsel

1 week ago


Brockton, Massachusetts, United States Convatec Full time
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec's revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit

This role is for a highly motivated and detail-oriented attorney, preferably with a healthcare or life sciences background, to join our legal team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in providing legal guidance and support including litigation and other contested matters, commercial contracting, and global employee relations. This role reports directly to the VP, Deputy General Counsel and is an excellent opportunity for a talented attorney looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic and innovative healthcare-focused organization.

Please note this is a remote-based role and the ideal candidate will be East Coast based, preferably near one of our US-based offices in either Lexington MA, Bridgewater NJ or Memphis TN.

About the Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to achieve business objectives while managing and mitigating legal risks.
  • Provide legal support to U.S. Deputy General Counsel in connection with litigation and other potential and active disputes.
  • Manage external counsel including effective budget management.
  • Collaborate with business colleagues and members of the legal team and contract managers to draft, review, and manage day-to-day sales, procurement, and other commercial agreements.
  • Review sales and marketing materials to ensure legal compliance and adequate substantiation.
  • Provide employment law support to human resources colleagues and Chief Compliance Officer.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional legal and compliance teams to ensure adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
  • Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, procedures, and practices that comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Conduct training sessions and provide educational resources to employees and managers on legal matters to promote legal awareness and compliance within the organization.

Competencies:

  • Creates a sense of purpose or vision for self, group or team, demonstrating a strong team-oriented philosophy.
  • Demonstrates strong and effective communication skills.
  • Translates broad strategies into specific objectives and action plans.
  • Demonstrates excellent research, project management and time management skills with the ability to set challenging, but achievable objectives.
  • Demonstrates ability to develop creative legal solutions to legal and extra-legal concerns or problems
  • Demonstrates superior organizational and analytical skills and a consistent high quality of work product and able to handle a demanding workload and to effectively prioritize tasks
  • Demonstrates desire to know and learn Convatec's businesses, products and services

Communicates Directly

  • Honestly communicates direction, opinions, facts and goals clearly and with transparency.
  • Seeks multiple perspectives and listens openly to other team members' points of view.
  • Enables and demonstrates the courage to speak up on challenging issues and risks as well as on the good news.

Collaborates

  • Works across organizational, functional and geographic boundaries to achieve company goals.
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships with team members, other functions, strategic partners and customers.
  • Works cooperatively with others to meet group and organizational goals.

Energizes Others

  • Creates and environment that encourages continuous improvement, innovation and appropriate risk taking.
  • Focuses organization on key priorities that impact our business.
  • Adapts to or drives positive change.

About You

Education/Qualifications:

  • Law degree from an ABA-accredited law school
  • Admission to the bar in the state of New Jersey or another state, and eligible for in-house counsel registration.
  • Five (5) or more years of experience as an attorney, preferably in healthcare, life sciences, or a related industry, with a focus on litigation and employment law.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. federal and state laws and regulations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and group presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide strategic legal advice and counsel to global business partners within varied functions and global business units
  • High degree of professionalism, integrity, and ethical behavior.

Travel Requirements:

The position may require limited business travel within the U.S., with occasional visits to Canada and Europe. Travel is not expected to exceed 15% of the time for the position.

Our progress will give you countless opportunities to move forward too. Seek out new challenges, and you'll find them. Stretch your thinking, and you'll find new ways to make an impact. And if you embrace the opportunity to drive your own growth, you could go further, and achieve more, than ever before.

This is a big step forward.

This is work that'll move you.

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Equal opportunities

Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives

Convatec is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Convatec employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written and signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Convatec. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

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