Senior Legal Counsel – Drive Impact in a Leading Global MedTech Company

Your Role: A Strategic Legal Leader We are seeking a highly skilled, commercially minded Senior Legal Counsel to join our dynamic legal team. As Regional Counsel, SSP, you’ll play a critical role in advising across multiple business units, solving complex legal challenges that significantly impact Stryker’s operations. Reporting to the General Counsel, you will navigate legal risks, influence strategic decisions, and drive innovative solutions in a fast-paced, highly regulated industry.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to sales and commercial teams in Australia & New Zealand, covering government tenders, business development, financial solutions, and corporate transactions.
• Shape legal strategy for high-value contracts, regulatory compliance, and risk management in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
• Lead negotiations for complex commercial agreements, ensuring business success while mitigating risks.
• Monitor and advise on legal and regulatory developments, proactively driving actions to maintain compliance.
• Influence at the highest levels—prepare board reports and provide legal insights to senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement in legal operations, from developing playbooks to conducting in-house training.
• Mentor and lead junior legal professionals, fostering a high-performance team.

What You Bring:

• 13+ years PQE with a strong foundation in corporate and commercial law, ideally in healthcare, MedTech, or regulated industries.
• Expertise in corporate transactions, competition law, privacy, cybersecurity, and digital regulations.
• A commercial mindset, with the ability to simplify legal complexities and offer practical, business-first solutions.
• Exceptional stakeholder management—you build strong relationships and act as a trusted business partner.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed global organization, juggling competing priorities effectively.
• Tech-savvy approach, embracing digital tools and innovative legal solutions.

Why Join Stryker? At Stryker, you won’t just be giving legal advice—you’ll be shaping the future of healthcare. This is a high-impact, career-defining opportunity to work at the forefront of medical technology innovation. Ready to make a difference? Apply now.

Culture and Benefits: At Stryker, you can expect an attractive package including a broad range of discounts and benefits from a range of partners! This is a genuine opportunity for an ambitious and customer focused individual to progress and grow your career with a leading global medical device company that offers countless development opportunities. Some of our benefits include:

• Named one of World’s Best Workplaces in 2023! 
• Multiple financial benefits including health care, financial wellbeing, insurance benefits. 
• Paid Parental leave schemes
• Volunteer Days
• Onsite gym! 
• Being part of one of the world’s largest and most recognizable brands.
• Excellent team culture – we have fun whilst we work!
• A Leader who will support & guide you throughout your career
• Access to our career and self-development program from day one
• Work with likeminded individuals who are driven by exceeding targets and improving patient outcomes

To join us, click apply now!