Legal Counsel (m/f/d) Turkey (Istanbul)

Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure.

In this role you will report to our Head of Legal Turkey and be responsible to support our Turkey organization from a legal perspective

Your assignments

Location: Istanbul

  • Serve as the part of the Turkey legal team, and in general, the Middle East/Africa/and Turkey FMC cluster (META) Legal team on the full range of legal matters;
  • Collaborate closely with our local Turkey operations and businesses;
  • Prepare, review, and negotiate all relevant contracts for our Turkey organization;
  • provide legal support and advice to the organization and its senior management;
  • Review and ensure legal compliance with existing regulations, guidelines and standards; provide strategic legal advice concerning new legislative developments
  • Ensure legal compliance of organizational structure, and in general, corporate house keeping;
  • Collaboration with the larger FMC Legal teams (META/EMEA/Global), and the larger FMC organization;
  • organize, lead, and follow up on the use of external counsel/s;
  • Be the lead contact for external lawyers and consultants and provide general legal counseling regarding all fields of commercial law

Your profile

  • Fully qualified lawyer, incl. above-average university degree
  • Experience of professional such as at least 7 or 8 years in a major international law firm and/or in-house legal department of an internationally operating and complex corporation;
  • Ideally, experience in medical technology, pharmaceuticals or the broader healthcare sector
  • Strong knowledge of the Turkish laws and regulations, and judicial system;
  • Ideally, first leadership experience, e.g. in a team or project lead role managing junior lawyers and outside counsels;
  • Strong and effective communication and client relationship/management skills with the ability to influence through collaboration;
  • Distinct and highly committed team-player;
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize work in a deadline-intensive environment while continuing to provide highly responsive service;
  • Native Turkish & Fluent English language skills; additional languages, especially German are highly welcome

To apply for this job please visit karriere.fresenius.de.


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