Legal & Compliance Counsel

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We are looking for an agile, flexible, and pragmatic professional to join our Legal & Compliance team, based in our office in Cairo, Egypt, as Legal & Compliance Counsel**.**The Legal and Compliance Counsel will directly report into the Head of Legal and Compliance Egypt, and will be responsible for driving both legal and compliance matters and providing advice to the organization including:
**Responsibilities**:

- ** General**:

- Be a trusted advisor to the Siemens Healthcare Egypt with respect to all legal and compliance matters.
- Provide strategic and operational guidance and contributes to the strategy and implementation of the Siemens Healthineers business in the Egypt and the assigned countries.
- Provides training and education to the business on relevant laws and business legal issues including Compliance relevant topics.
- Be comfortable as a challenger to the management and to the business when appropriate.
- Works collaboratively with Siemens Healthineers legal specialists in headquarters (including Zone) and the Siemens Healthineers global legal network.
- Lives core values such as integrity, respect and reliability
- Readiness to travel occasionally within Egypt and to UAE or other MEA countries.
- ** Legal**:

- Handling a variety of legal related matters such as corporate, commercial and regulatory topics as well as managing litigations (including matters with external counsel).
- Mitigate legal risks and help business in the mitigation of commercial risks.
- Conducts research on various legal matters. Be up-to-date with any changes in laws and regulations affecting the company to ensure continuous compliance with the local laws and regulations.
- Provide legal advice/corporate secretarial work, including corporate documentations, board resolutions, appointment and dismissal of board members in close cooperation with shareholder controlling functions, alignment with local shareholder representatives, amendment and renewal of corporate licenses.
- ** Compliance**:

- Proactively creating awareness for, anticipating and mitigating Compliance risks in Egypt and other countries.
- Ensuring implementation of guidelines and regulations and execution of the operational Compliance Processes as well as Compliance controls.
- Contributing to the set-up and continuous improvement of the Compliance System.
- Ensuring continuous knowledge exchange with Compliance colleagues in the MEA zone and the headquarter.
- Assist in Conducting Compliance Trainings.
- Supporting Compliance investigations and audits.
- Supporting special task assigned by the responsible Head of Legal & Compliance for the MEA zone, e.g. contributing on specific compliance topics, adhoc support in other MESA countries.
- Monitoring and ensuring compliance with data protections laws.
- Conducting annual privacy assessments and audits to identify potential risks and areas for improvement and report back on the results of these assessments. This also includes maintaining accurate records of data processing activities and privacy-related documentation and regularly updating these records.
- Participating with the team in developing and implementing data privacy policies, procedures, and guidelines to govern the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information.
- Delivery of privacy trainings to educate employees on data protection principles and best practices in MEA zone, e.g. contributing on specific compliance topics, ad hoc support in other MEA countries.
- Bachelor degree in Law. Admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association.
- Minimum of 3 years experience within an international or multi-national Company or Law firm.
- Relevant work experience collected in the Healthcare
- and/or Life science Sector with strong focus on contract law for supply and service transactions, distributorship agreements, complex project business as well as collaboration and research agreements is highly appreciated.
- Ideally having knowledge of data privacy laws.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills.
- Excellent command of English and Arabic (both spoken and written).
- Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and to set the right priorities. Be pragmatic and hands on.
- Excellent business acumen. Gravitas and credibility.
- Proficiency in MS office.

**Who we are**:
We are a team of more than 73,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for c