Provide commercial legal support across ANZ: lead sales and commercial deals end-to-end, structure and negotiate contracts, support tenders and strategic customer agreements, handle commercial contracting and financial solutions, and flex into property or transactional work as needed while partnering closely with business stakeholders.
Work Flexibility: Hybrid
Step into a high-impact legal role where your expertise directly enables Stryker South Pacific (SSP) to achieve its strategic and operational goals while upholding the highest standards of legal, ethical and compliance excellence. You will partner closely with Sales, Finance and Business Leaders to structure, negotiate and execute complex commercial arrangements, mitigate risk and support business growth.
This role has been created to support commercial transactions. You will be a quick learner, enjoy making great deals happen, who can hit the ground running, with the expectation you will quickly build confidence to lead matters end-to-end. We’re looking for someone who builds trust quickly and proactively, and can step into a fast paced environment and make an immediate impact.
In this role, you will help bring Stryker's mission to make healthcare better to life by enabling deals that deliver value for customers and patients.
What you will do
- Lead commercial contracting: Draft, review and negotiate complex agreements including supply, service, finance, tenders, procurement, distribution and agency arrangements
- Drive deal execution: Partner with sales and commercial teams from ideation through to close in a busy and fast paced environment
- Provide strategic legal advice: Deliver commercially focused, actionable guidance on business initiatives, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and legal risk
- Mitigate risk proactively: Monitor legal and regulatory developments, identify risks and implement mitigation strategies
- Enable the business: Build capability through partnership and guidance to uplift legal understanding and culture across teams
- Shape legal strategy: Contribute to legal frameworks, playbooks and process improvements that enable scalable growth
- Improve ways of working: Leverage legal tech, digital tools and AI to drive efficiency, speed and consistency
- Collaborate globally: Work closely with regional and global legal colleagues and manage external counsel where required
What you bring
- Qualified lawyer (LLB/JD) with admission to practise in Australia
- 5+ years PQE with experience in commercial, transactional or finance-related work, ideally gained through a mix of law firm and in house roles
- Proven expertise negotiating complex commercial agreements across government and/or private sector
- Experience in medical devices, life sciences or other regulated environments
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to interpret financials and structure practical deal solutions
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build trust across all levels
- Excellent communication skills — able to simplify complexity and guide decision-making
- Digital and technology savviness, including curiosity around AI and legal operations tools
- Agile, adaptable and comfortable stepping into a role with momentum and ambiguity
What sets you apart
- A solutions-oriented, commercially pragmatic mindset — you enable the business while managing risk
- You build credibility quickly and influence without relying on authority
- You operate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams and matrixed environments, balancing strategic priorities with operational realities
- Experience in financed deal structures or digital/ technology sales transactions
- Proven ability to identify, assess and articulate legal and compliance risks, and translate them into practical commercial solutions with excellent drafting, negotiation and analytical skills
- Confidence to operate independently in a matrixed functions and multi disciplinary environments
- A track record of process improvement, innovation or legal ops maturity
Why join us
- Work at the intersection of commercial growth and legal strategy
- Partner with senior leaders on complex transactions
- Be part of a collaborative, globally connected legal team
- Opportunity to shape how legal supports a growing business
- Potential to convert to a permanent role
If you enjoy solving complex problems, building trusted relationships and enabling commercial outcomes in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.
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