Legal Specialist, Business Counsel

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3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

As a Legal Specialist in the Business Counsel organization you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by serving as a highly independent, business-facing legal professional, partnering closely with lawyers and cross-functional teams to support compliant, practical, and efficient business execution across the Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems businesses.

In this role, you will play a key part in enabling the business through effective legal support, issue identification, and cross-functional coordination, helping teams navigate legal and regulatory requirements while maintaining speed and commercial focus.

• Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams, helping translate legal requirements into practical business guidance
• Serve as a first-line reviewer and issue spotter for routine commercial and operational matters, identifying legal and compliance risks and escalating to lawyers as appropriate
• Support marketing and claims review activities, coordinating closely with Regulatory, Quality, Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Compliance partners
• Assist in supporting contracting-related matters, working with lawyers and cross-functional stakeholders to help facilitate efficient execution
• Maintain and enhance legal processes, templates, and guidance materials to support consistency, efficiency, and scalability
• Deliver training and guidance to business stakeholders on legal processes, claims, and key legal concepts related to marketing and promotional activities
• Support lawyers in the Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems businesses on a range of day-to-day legal matters and initiatives
• Coordinate across Legal, Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Compliance teams to drive alignment and timely execution
• Manage priorities across multiple workflows and contribute to continuous improvement of legal processes and tools

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher, OR a diploma, or professional certification in Paralegal Studies or a related discipline, and a minimum of seven (7) years of experience working in a legal, compliance, regulatory, contracts, or corporate legal support environment.

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience working in a legal specialist, senior paralegal, or comparable legal…