Legal Director, Apac Commercial

Legal Director, APAC CommercialApply locations: Sydney, NSW, Australia; Singapore, Singapore
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 5 Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: January 31, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)
Job requisition id: JR_037115
The Legal team is responsible for managing the legal affairs of the company, including providing legal counsel across the organization, handling disputes, and creating and enforcing intellectual property.
SummaryThe Legal Director, APAC Commercial oversees all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization's commercial legal affairs within ResMed's Asia Pacific Region. The Asia Pacific Region includes Australia & New Zealand, Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.
The Legal Team performs a critical role in the business by advising and enabling the commercial teams with legal advice and representation whilst at all times protecting the interests of ResMed. Your client base will be the commercial groups across the Asia Pacific Region embracing revenue, marketing, product marketing (pricing, promotion, and positioning) and commercial transformation. This job also works closely, as part of the Global Legal Team, with Product Legal and Privacy teams, our Global Contracts Management teams, our Corporate Legal function (including Litigation, Employment, and Legal Operations), and with corporate finance, corporate governance and 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 practice.
As the Legal Director, APAC Commercial, this position is the subject matter expert for all commercial legal affairs within ResMed's 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 goals (including helping clients to make risk-based decisions) all the while protecting the interests of ResMed.
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.
Tasks and ResponsibilitiesOversee advice and support for commercial teams and all commercial activities (including business to business and direct to consumer) across ResMed's APAC region.Manage a team of lawyers (currently 4) 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 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 a 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 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 practice.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.Core CompetenciesCommunication: 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 CompetenciesProvision of Legal Services: Demonstrates superior knowledge of legislation/legal systems to facilitate the analysis of novel or highly complex information and issues; Develops strategies to facilitate the consistent application of legislation/legal systems across the business; Scans the external environment to stay abreast of current/pending legislation, key external cases and their associated business implications; Anticipates legal risks and identifies opportunities to provide legal input in line with broader business strategy; Takes action to minimize legal risks by providing education, advice and counsel to senior management on significant legal issues; Determines scope of in-house legal services and oversees the development of systems that facilitate case tracking/budget management; Develops strategies for the effective and efficient utilization of external legal service providers; Represents ResMed in complex legal issues/cases; Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and colleagues at all levels in the organization; Entrepreneurial, pragmatic and possessing a sense of urgency; Analytical thinking and problem-solving; Ability to prioritize complex workload effectively.Key Subject Areas: Contracts and general commercial transactions, including tenders; Familiarity with Medical device regulations across APAC region; General understanding of approaches to patient reimbursement methodologies, including nationalized health care, insurance reimbursement, and self-payment; Trade practices, regional Distribution arrangements and applicable competition laws (including, but not limited to, relating to Vertical Restraints); Applicable Consumer Laws across key markets in APAC region; Advertising laws/regulations/standards; Regulatory and compliance requirements affecting Medical Device manufacturers across APAC region; Privacy, including data, patient, employee, and business privacy regulations; Employee relations and labor-management regulations; Intellectual property, including patent and trademark protection and enforcement; Ecommerce, IP licensing and Software as a Service; Dispute management, including negotiation, litigation, and arbitration.Written Communication: Excellent drafting, presentation, and influencing skills; Expresses novel or complex legal concepts and related facts in a clear, concise, and structured manner for a non-legal audience; Responds to probing and critical inquiries that are relatively undefined in scope; Writes clear, concise, and organized legal documents, letters, and emails addressing novel or complex legal concepts and facts; Ensures the delivery of accurate, coordinated, and coherent responses to external bodies/the business.Position Specific SkillsHonesty, 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 ExperienceMinimum: 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 organisations and/or life sciences with a focus on digital healthcare.About UsAt ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) we pioneer innovative solutions that treat and keep people out of the hospital, empowering them to live healthier, higher-quality lives. Our digital health technologies and cloud-connected medical devices transform care for people with sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic diseases. Our comprehensive out-of-hospital software platforms support the professionals and caregivers who help people stay healthy in the home or care setting of their choice. By enabling better care, we improve quality of life, reduce the impact of chronic disease, and lower costs for consumers and healthcare systems in more than 140 countries. To learn more, visit ResMed.com and follow @ResMed.
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