Senior Principal Legal Counsel - Global Commercial & Government Contracting

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Jun 2026

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

Medtronic is on a mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life around the world. Medtronic technologies transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. And counting. We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

The Medtronic Global Commercial Office (GCO) is the single greatest multiplier of growth for the organization - to expand our patient impact around the world. We are a catalyst for growth, leading Medtronic commercial strategy. We are the operations backbone of the commercial organization, deploying critical capabilities across markets. We are an idea center, bringing industry-leading practices to life. We power growth by scaling commercial excellence across Medtronic.

We accelerate market performance, lead the way in transformation, and enable commercial teams to operate with a focused set of commercial capabilities.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

This position will reside at a Medtronic corporate location in California, Florida, Massachusetts, or Minnesota. This position reports to the Vice President, Chief Counsel, Americas Region.

We are seeking an exceptional strategically minded and transactionally focused attorney to serve as a key legal partner supporting the GCO activities with an emphasis on supporting the company's US government business segment. The successful candidate will provide actionable, business-oriented legal advice on all aspects of federal procurement, including bid protests, contract performance, and dispute resolution. The role involves navigating complex regulations, ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating risk across the contracting lifecycle of federal, state, and local contracts, including GSA Schedule management, VA procurements, and DoD agreements.

This role also provides general, proactive, business forward legal guidance and drafting support for non-US government customer sales activities to enable innovative business models that are compliant with federal and state healthcare laws-including the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), data privacy and security laws, software licensing, FDA law, general commercial transaction legal principles, ASC specific regulatory frameworks, and other relevant regulations, laws, policies, practices - ensuring compliant execution of commercial and operational initiatives.

The attorney will work cross functionally with a variety of enterprise and operating unit business clients, quality, regulatory, clinical, and operations teams as well as functional centers of excellence including; IP, compliance, M&A, privacy, AI, antitrust, litigation, government affairs, and health economics policy and reimbursement on issues related to compliance with healthcare-related government contracting, ASC initiatives, commercial program design, service offerings, and service and repair operational matters.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

US Government Contracting Support

* Provide domain expertise and support to Medtronic businesses and regions on navigating the U.S. government procurement system, creating efficiencies, managing risk, and reducing liabilities.

* In partnership with Medtronic's US Federal Government Enterprise team and other key stakeholders, implement systems and processes to support compliance, control, and consistency in all U.S. government sales activities.

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