Legal & compliance counsel

The Company

Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specialises in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. Our products and services are used worldwide to help care for critically and chronically ill patients.

The Fresenius Group employs c.400,000 high-calibre professionals across the world, with a workforce of circa.1,000 professionals across the UK & Ireland.

We’re looking for an experienced Legal & Compliance Counsel to join our UK & Ireland team on a maternity cover basis, a fixed-term contract until October 2027. This is a broad, hands-on role where you’ll work closely with the Head of Legal & Compliance and business stakeholders across multiple functions. The role is full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm and is based in Runcorn, Cheshire with the option of hybrid working.

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic, solutions-focused legal advice to support business objectives.
• Draft, negotiate and advise on a wide range of commercial contracts.
• Advise on contractual, procurement and commercial risk matters.
• Manage external counsel effectively and control legal spend.
• Support the implementation of the global compliance framework (including anti-bribery & corruption)
• Contribute to compliance training, communications and awareness activities.
• Help embed a strong culture of integrity across the business.
• Advise on data protection and privacy matters across the UK & Ireland.
• Support data privacy compliance and security processes.
• Deliver training and promote best practice in data handling.
• Develop and share legal best practice and guidance.
• Deliver engaging training and support knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of legal processes and tools.

Experience

• Qualified solicitor or barrister (UK).
• Strong experience in commercial contracts and general in-house legal work.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment (life sciences or healthcare industry would be beneficial)
• Good working knowledge of compliance and data protection.
• A confident communicator who can engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Pragmatic, proactive and commercially minded.

Why Join Us?

• A genuinely varied role with exposure across legal, compliance and data protection.
• The opportunity to work in a purpose-driven healthcare business.
• A supportive, collaborative Legal & Compliance team.
• Real scope to make an impact during your time with us.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.