Senior Principal Legal Counsel - Minneapolis, MN/Lafayatte, CO/Memphis TN/Washington D.C.
Medtronic
Summary
The Global Operations & Supply Chain (GOSC) Legal organization provides strategic legal and commercial support across Medtronic’s global operations and supply chain. This role supports Global Supply Management, with a primary focus on Direct Sourcing & Contract Manufacturing and Global Technical Sourcing. This position is onsite in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lafayette, Colorado; Memphis, Tennessee; or Washington, DC. Travel is up to 25%.
Job description
The Sr. Principal Legal Counsel provides strategic legal advice and transactional support for product development, direct material sourcing, contract manufacturing, and other complex supplier relationships. This attorney will independently lead sophisticated commercial negotiations, translate legal and operational risk into clear business choices, and partner across functions to enable business objectives while protecting Medtronic.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide legal counsel to Direct Sourcing & Contract Manufacturing and Global Technical Sourcing teams within Global Supply Management.
- Draft and negotiate complex direct material supply, product development, contract manufacturing, technology, licensing, quality, and other commercial agreements.
- Advise business and sourcing leaders on supplier performance, continuity of supply, quality, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, contractual risk, and commercially reasonable solutions.
- Lead complex supplier negotiations involving new technologies, development arrangements, licensing, volume commitments, pricing structures, and long-term supply.
- Resolve supplier disputes, delivery interruptions, and performance issues through negotiation, contractual remedies, settlement strategies, and coordination with internal or external counsel.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to address emerging legal and operational issues, improve contracting processes, and develop templates, negotiation playbooks, guidance, and training.
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctorate and 8+ years of relevant legal experience.
- Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Experience independently leading complex commercial negotiations and advising business clients on contractual, commercial, and operational risk.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting direct procurement, technical or strategic sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, or supplier relationships.
- Experience negotiating product development, co-development, contract manufacturing, technology, licensing, or similar complex agreements.
- Experience addressing intellectual property ownership, licensing, technology transfer, confidentiality, know-how, and development deliverables.
- Experience in medical device, life sciences, healthcare, technology, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience supporting a global business in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department.
Requirements
- Juris Doctorate and 8+ years of relevant legal experience.
- Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Experience independently leading complex commercial negotiations and advising business clients on contractual, commercial, and operational risk.
- Experience supporting direct procurement, technical or strategic sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, or supplier relationships.
- Experience negotiating product development, co-development, contract manufacturing, technology, licensing, or similar complex agreements.
- Experience addressing intellectual property ownership, licensing, technology transfer, confidentiality, know-how, and development deliverables.
- Experience in medical device, life sciences, healthcare, technology, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience supporting a global business in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.