Job Description

Senior Legal Counsel – PSX Asia Pacific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $40 billion and approximately 125,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, tackle sophisticated analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our best-in-class brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a motivated and driven senior legal counsel to join our team. You will work closely with regional and global teams on legal and compliance matters. Your expertise will ensure flawless execution of our business strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary legal business partner for PSX APAC responsible for all legal and compliance matters and provide strategic legal insights and trainings, including commercial, competition, corporate, employment, governance, IP, litigation, anti-bribery, fraud and regulatory, products liability, and data privacy.
• Manages more than half of the role by concentrating on commercial transactions, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating various types of contracts.  Handles disputes and offers consultation on these transactions.  Supports the business by advising on legal issues, drafting and reviewing contracts and representing the organization to customers, suppliers, competitors and government agencies.
• Collaborate with regional and global teams to develop, implement, and maintain a compliance program that balances company philosophy with local laws and culture; monitor compliance and provide associated legal advice and regular reports to senior management.
• Validated ability to develop collaborative and positive relationships both internally and within third party organizations, including outside counsels.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Law degree from a recognized university/law school.
• PRC or US bar qualification
• 10+ years of experience representing life science or other medical device companies within multinational companies as in-house counsel and/or an international law firm, with APAC legal support experience as a plus.
• Proven experience working within matrix organizations and adopting various legal approaches.
• Excellent business sense, good judgment, and strong influencing skills.
• Ability to develop practical processes/approaches and drive solutions to completion.
• Strong communication skills, and great teamwork
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Ability to run time and priorities including balancing multiple assignments.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.
• Travel is estimated at less than 20%.