Summary of Role

The legal counsel will oversee all legal matters relating to Fresenius Medical Care (“FME”) businesses in Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) and Indonesia. This role will be based in Australia.

Candidates must:

• possess strong leadership and contract negotiation skills with a distinct attention to detail and ability to handle a diverse range of legal issues;
• be confident, articulate, and commercially pragmatic seasoned lawyer;
• be a genuine team player who is quick to establish trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• be adept at operating in a fast-moving and changing environment.

About Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care is the world's largest provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases of which around 4.1 million patients worldwide regularly undergo dialysis treatment. Through its global network of roughly 4,000 dialysis clinics, FME provides dialysis treatments for more than 332,000 patients around the globe.  At the same time, FME operates 40 production sites on all continents, to provide dialysis products such as dialysis machines, dialyzers and related disposables. 

Key Accountabilities

The role is broad and includes:

• Serves as a key lawyer in ANZ and Indonesia on all legal matters including provide advice, leading drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts.
• Provide strategic thinking and be a credible and effective legal partner for the business leaders in ANZ and Indonesia to deliver FME's objective.  
• Provide practical, business-oriented strategic advice for all product value streams and the value chains of both the global MedTech (CE) product portfolio as well as lead all legal initiatives for Care Delivery International  for the countries in scope.
• Execute strategic agenda and business plans for CE, CD and manufacturing businesses for the countries in scope, taking into account the broader geopolitical, commercial, legal, industry and regulatory nuances and framework.
• Manage disputes, litigious matters (e.g. patient & employee claims, investigations etc.) and regulatory investigations in for the countries in scope.
• Monitor and support in corporate governance looking after the corporate secretarial portfolio for the countries in scope.
• Provide legal support for M&A and restructuring initiatives (if any) for the countries in scope.
• Provide support on data privacy matters for the countries in scope and act as the data privacy officer of the respective countries.
• Provide proactive, strategic and tactical legal advice and support in problem resolution, working as part of a cross functional team in the respective countries on projects and initiatives.
• Prepare and implement appropriate policies, procedures and control mechanism to ensure sufficient guidance, training and monitor system are in place for ANZ, Malaysia and Indonesia.
• Ability to identify opportunities to bring consistency and uniformity to legal work and implementation of initiatives to enhance business operations for the countries in scope.
• Actively participate and collaborate with the rest of the Asia Pacific and Global legal teams in protecting FME’s interest and being an enabler to the business.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum above 8 years PQE experience and qualified in a State or Territory in Australia. Ideally with a mix of private practice and in-house working experience.
• Possess strong contract negotiation and communication; both written and presentation; ability to influence across all levels and simplify complex legal topics to achieve FME outcomes.
• Experience in healthcare or similar industry will be highly regarded.
• Experience working in other jurisdictions in Asia Pacific would be an advantage.
• A “can do” attitude with a curious and enthusiastic approach to work
• Commercially minded and solutions driven lawyer with strong work ethic and exceptional business partner focus
• Agility and the ability to work effectively in a global matrix organisation across geographic and functional boundaries which includes understanding of working across various timezones, when required.
• Ability to identify opportunities to bring consistency and uniformity to legal work and implementation of initiatives to enhance business operations
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work independently as well as being part of the cross function and cross jurisdictional team; sense of humour
• Business-minded; strong growth mindset and agile, affinity to numbers and financial KPIs
• Ability to be highly organized and effective; handle multiple competing priorities
• Ability to see the big picture yet attention to detail