At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We're committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions are designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease. This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care. A Day in the Life We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Legal Director to lead and shape Medtronic's legal strategy across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region (including Australia, New Zealand, India,, Greater China, Southeast Asia). This role is both regional and functional in nature - balancing leadership of a small, high performing legal team with hands-on strategic counsel to business leaders and functional partners. The successful candidate will serve as a key member of the Legal Leadership Team, driving excellence, compliance, and operational integrity across a diverse and dynamic market landscape. Key Responsibilities Legal Strategy & Leadership: Develop, implement, and continuously enhance MiniMed's regional legal strategy and overarching legal program, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations while enabling business growth. Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across commercial, HR, finance, regulatory, and clinical functions, providing pragmatic and business-savvy legal advice to advance strategic priorities. Commercial Legal Counsel: Represent MiniMed's legal interests across Asia, managing a broad portfolio of contracts, negotiations, and business initiatives with a focus on risk mitigation and ethical business conduct. Team Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals across the region, fostering professional growth, collaboration, and alignment with Medtronic's mission and values. Regulatory Compliance: Stay abreast of evolving healthcare regulations and ensure adherence to all relevant laws, policies, and ethical standards across jurisdictions. Dispute & Litigation Management: Oversee commercial disputes and investigations, engaging and managing external counsel where necessary, and ensuring timely, effective resolution. Training & Education: Promote a culture of compliance by developing and delivering training programs to enhance employee understanding of legal and ethical obligations. Continuous Improvement: Monitor and assess legal risks, develop proactive mitigation strategies, and continuously enhance processes, documentation, and program effectiveness. Spin-Off / Separation Activities: Lead legal workstreams supporting the separation of the Diabetes business, including entity creation, corporate governance setup, and transition services agreements (TSAs). Advise on structuring, contracting, and risk allocation to enable a smooth transition to standalone operations. Collaborate with Global Separation Management Office (SMO), Finance, HR, and Compliance to ensure Day 1 legal readiness and continuity of operations. Manage cross-border complexities related to licenses, contracts, intellectual property, and employment law through the transition period. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS "Must Have's" 10 years of legal experience. Experience in a law firm, corporate legal department or in-house counsel role YOUR PROFILE / DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS Healthcare industry experience - pharma, medical device, diagnostics, life sciences etc. Leadership gravitas and a proven ability to influence leadership at all levels of an organization. An adept ability to issue spot with a solution-oriented and continuous improvement mindset. Ability to identify high risk situations and provide appropriate guidance, including the ability to make bold and courageous decisions. Ability to manage and execute multiple complex projects across multiple stakeholder groups and countries within required timelines and expectations Managerial experience and expertise with onsite and remote team members Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Financial and Business Acumen Courage, integrity and strong ethical character; and Strong understanding of, and ability to demonstrate, the following cultural norms: act boldly; compete to win; move with speed & decisiveness; foster belonging; and deliver results the right way Reasonable travel will be expected. About Medtronic We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people. We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.? Benefits & Compensation Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan. About Medtronic We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people. We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com) We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000 passionate people. We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. Better outcomes for our world . Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting?is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. 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