GEHC General Counsel, China

Job Description Summary

Role Summary/Purpose: legal leadership and strategic legal advice to the China Region within GEHC. Key areas of focus include: resolving corporate business issues to drive business growth and more integrated and efficient processes; providing early-warning and guidance on China’s evolving regulatory and enforcement developments; ensuring appropriate management of corporate governance, litigation, and governmental/regulatory matters; and collaborating with the Compliance function to promote a culture of performance with unyielding integrity.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

tex

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

1. Being an active business partner to the China Region business and leadership team, continually working to identify strategic opportunities to increase growth/reduce costs, engage in intelligent risk taking, and identify and reduce enterprise risks
2. Driving cross-business, global, and regional synergies to maximize effectiveness of the global GEHC legal team
3. Advising the business on commercial, regulatory, litigation, privacy, antitrust, improper payments, and advertising/promotional matters
4. Providing regulatory and compliance advice and training in collaboration with the Regulatory and Compliance specialist in GE Healthcare
5. Applying combined business and legal judgment to deals, relationships, and issues requiring legal attention
6. Collaboration with global legal colleagues and subject matter experts to analyze and advise the China Region commercial business on complex legal/compliance issues that arise out of their respective global operations
7. Structure and negotiate complex transactions and oversee outside counsel
8. In conjunction with GEHC Chief Litigation Counsel, coordinate management of relevant litigation of significant impact to GE Healthcare
9. Manage and develop GEHC China Region legal team
10.Manage GEHC China Panel of law firms to build up “in-China, for-China” legal domain and expertise
11.  Help support cross-modality transactions and enterprise solutions deals

Qualifications/Requirements:

1. JD (or equivalent) with active bar membership; US bar qualification preferred
2. 15 years of business law experience at a large law firm or corporate legal department, including but not limited to drafting, negotiating and closing complex business transactions in a regulated environment (i.e. purchase, sale, and distribution agreements). 
3. Experience in the healthcare industry and previous exposure to healthcare industry regulations, particularly including a pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device focus
4. Significant experience and proven ability to function as a senior member of a management team and manage a cross-functional or global legal function.
5. Demonstrated experience providing strategic and pragmatic legal advice and ability to identify and resolve legal issues quickly and effectively in a highly regulated environment.
6. Demonstrated experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in an extremely fast-paced environment.
7. Ability to communicate using English (and local language) and outstanding interpersonal/communications skills.

Inclusion and Diversity 

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Total rewards statement 

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.