Descripción de la oferta
Privacy Legal Counsel
Madrid Medtronic
Flexible Work Arrangement
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Full time
R75511
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
As Privacy Legal Counsel, you will play a key role as part of a global team in supporting privacy, data protection, and responsible data use by Medtronic primarily across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Working at the intersection of law, healthcare, technology, and digital transformation, you will provide legal advice to business and functional stakeholders on complex data protection and privacy matters, helping the organization navigate evolving regulatory requirements while enabling innovation and operational excellence. This position offers the opportunity to provide expert legal advice across a broad range of strategic initiatives including digital health, data governance, and artificial intelligence within a global healthcare environment. This is an EMEA-based role. Travel is expected to be up to 5%.
This role reports to the Chief Global Privacy Counsel and is part of the Global Data & Privacy Legal function within the Office of Privacy, Integrity and Compliance and will serve as a key privacy legal resource across a variety of assigned areas. You will collaborate closely with a number of functions and teams, including Legal, Information Technology (IT), Security, Human Resources (HR), Clinical, Research and Development (R&D), and Technology and Innovation, as well as other privacy teams. The position supports data protection and privacy legal and regulatory compliance, privacy program implementation, risk management, responsible data use strategies, contracting activities, and governance initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Advise stakeholders on privacy, data protection, and related regulatory requirements across the EMEA region.
Monitor and interpret legal and regulatory developments, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), ePrivacy requirements, and other applicable frameworks.
Provide legal guidance on digital health solutions, artificial intelligence initiatives, data governance activities, secondary use of data, and new product developments.
Draft, review, and negotiate privacy-related agreements, including data processing agreements and data transfer agreements.
Support privacy risk assessments, transfer impact assessments, and compliance reviews related to personal data processing activities.
Advise on cross-border data transfers and legal requirements for international data flows.
Support privacy incident investigations, remediation activities, and regulatory notification assessments.
Develop privacy guidance, templates, governance processes, and compliance resources to support global privacy programs.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Law degree and 4+ years of experience as legal counsel, or an advanced law degree with 2+ years of relevant experience supporting data protection, privacy, security, or related legal matters.
Experience providing legal advice on data protection and privacy matters within a large, matrixed organization.
Knowledge of privacy and data protection regulations across EMEA, including GDPR and UK GDPR.
Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and data-related agreements.
Professional fluency in English, both written and verbal.
Preferred qualifications include qualification as legal counsel in a relevant jurisdiction, experience within healthcare, life sciences, medical technology, or another regulated industry, knowledge of emerging regulations such as the European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act and European Union Data Act, and experience supporting privacy assessments, privacy incident response, data subject rights requests, and international data transfer matters.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Belgium: 92,800.00 EUR - 139,200.00 EUR | Czechia: 1,300,000.00 CZK - 1,950,000.00 CZK | Hungary: 15,852,800.00 HUF - 23,779,200.00 HUF | Italy: 63,440.00 EUR - 95,160.00 EUR | Netherlands: 92,320.00 EUR - 138,480.00 EUR | Poland: 232,000.00 PLN - 348,000.00 PLN | Portugal: 49,600.00 EUR - 74,400.00 EUR | Romania: 256,240.00 RON - 384,360.00 RON | Slovenia: 70,400.00 EUR - 105,600.00 EUR | Spain: 64,400.00 EUR - 96,600.00 EUR |
The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will.
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life‑long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world. Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here.
We offer competitive base salaries, bonus incentives, support for financial-well-being and retirement, comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location), flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements, generous paid parental leave policies, free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program, career development and training opportunities.
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