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The Senior Legal Counsel is responsible for serving as the first point of contact for business unit matters, in addition to providing expert legal advice on specialized matters, while working under limited supervision. The role actively participates in category management teams, offering legal solutions that align with business objectives. The role drafts and negotiates diverse contracts, ensuring the protection of legal and business interests, and manages outside counsel for specialized issues. The role provides training and guidance on topics such as compliance, IP, regulatory matters, privacy, and M&A, supporting new business models and solutions.

This role is ideal for a business lawyer with strong experience in consumer product marketing, claims substantiation, and sales agreements across diverse customer segments. Serve as a legal advisor within a multidisciplinary team, collaborating across the Global Legal Function and engaging stakeholders at all levels. May include oversight of legal staff to ensure aligned legal strategy and execution across business initiatives.

Your role:

• Serves as the first point of contact for internal clients, advising and providing legal support in a specialized legal area for specific aspects of the business. Participates as a key member of a business category management team, offering legal insights and solutions that align with business objectives. Drafts and negotiates a wide range of contracts, ensuring legal and business interests are safeguarded, and oversees the management of outside counsel for specialized matters, working under limited supervision.
• First line for day-to-day legal needs of the sales function Contract review & negotiations, including payor, service, procurement, and research agreements Advise on regulatory compliance (including HIPAA, anti-kickback, and Medicare/Medicaid provider standards). Provides legal advice and conducts training on various topics, including contracting, compliance, security, intellectual property, quality and regulatory matters, healthcare compliance, privacy, mergers and acquisitions, business integrations, and the introduction of new business models and solutions.
• Help create business models together with business Identify and respond to legal and compliance risks. Continuously improve the efficiency of legal service and optimizing the quality of legal advice to address practical business needs Training, implementation, and enforcement of compliance in the organization Provide support to contracting, privacy, finance, sales and other stakeholders as needed. Keeps track of the main developments and possesses the ability to act as a business partner to advise and train the organization in legal and compliance rules.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience in a law firm with 2+ years’ experience with an in-house law department. Expertise within a corporate environment or healthcare law practice  group, preferred. 

• Your skills include Regulatory Compliance, including experience with HIPAA, anti-kickback, and Medicare/Medicaid provider standards, and Risk Management; Due Diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Contract Management, and Intellectual Property Law; Research & Analysis, Strategic Planning, and Policy Development; and Stakeholder Management and Training Delivery.

• You have a Bachelor's / Master's in Law; J.D. required, admitted to practice in the United States. Postgraduate focus in Commercial, Corporate, IT, IP, Q&R, Compliance, Security or Privacy law – preferred.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• You’re a results-driven legal professional with strong communication, organizational, and project management skills; adept at handling diverse legal matters independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips 

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality of healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.  

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Malvern, PA is $158,000 to $252,000.

The pay range for this position in Cambridge, MA is $168,000 to $268,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives, may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Malvern, PA or Cambridge, MA.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.