Legal Counsel (Mississauga, Canada – Bilingual, French/English preferred)

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571506### Titre du posteLegal Counsel (Mississauga, Canada – Bilingual, French/English required)### Description de posteAs Legal Counsel, you will provide business‑focused legal and compliance support across all Philips Canada businesses, including regulatory and privacy matters, procurement and research contracts, and day‑to‑day business advisory. You act as the primary legal partner for Personal Health, support Health Systems as needed, and manage all litigation—overseeing external counsel, coordinating with insurers, and guiding cases to resolution, as well as lead key compliance functions, monitoring regulatory changes, managing required filings, engaging with regulators, and delivering training.The role also supports broader organizational initiatives, offering oversight and legal input on various programs and stakeholder activities. You may represent Philips in external industry forums and contribute to internal governance efforts, including those related to regulatory, language, and French‑language compliance.**Your role:**• Manages small to medium complexity legal topics, ensuring thorough understanding and resolution of legal issues impacting the business. Provides timely and relevant legal advice to the business, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations while supporting organizational objectives. Additionally, you will prepare and negotiate contracts directly with customers, striving for terms that safeguard the organization's interests and foster positive business relationships, working under limited supervision.• Collaborates with external counsel to discuss and formulate legal strategies concerning legal claims, ensuring a comprehensive approach to risk management. Analyzes problems with diverse scope, evaluating identifiable factors and data to deliver expert resolutions and recommendations to stakeholders.

• Embraces a LEAN mindset to enhance productivity and efficiency within legal processes, continuously identifying and implementing improvement opportunities. Provides expert resolution of legal issues, monitors the integration of legal work into broader business functions, and ensures seamless coordination across teams.**You're the right fit if:*** You’ve acquired 3+ years relevant in-house or private practice experience, within the Healthcare or Medtech (preferred), with bilingual ability in French/English (required).* Your skills include demonstrated experience in drafting and negotiating contracts, research & analysis, regulatory compliance, policy development, stakeholder management, training, litigation management and legal compliance management.* You have Bachelor's Degree (any kind) + Law Degree (LL.B. or Juris Doctor) - must be licensed Canadian lawyer (required).

A certification in Canadian privacy law (Canadian Information Privacy Professional – Canada, CIPP/C), a bonus.* You’re an excellent communicator (written and verbal in French/English), with strong stakeholder management,

and business partnering capabilities. You also possess meticulous organizational and project management skills with the ability to work independently in complex environments with the ability to flex your work style when required to meet deadlines.**How we work together**We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.This is an Office role.**About Philips**We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.* Learn more about .* Discover* Learn more about* Learn more about**Philips Transparency Details**The pay range for this position is $85,000 to $133,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives, may be offered. Employees areeligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, DC Pension, Flex Dollars(for HSA/PSA/RRSP), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our Canada benefits can be found.At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions aredependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.**Additional Information**Canadian work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company **will not** consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.Company relocation benefits will **not** be provided for this position.

For this position, you **must** reside in or within commuting distance to **Mississauga, CA**.Philips Canada is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.*It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.**To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.**Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity #J-18808-Ljbffr