General Counsel

POSITION OVERVIEW

The General Counsel is responsible for leading corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives. The general counsel provides senior management and various areas of the business with effective advice to ensure legal compliance and limit risk exposures while balancing business goals. The general counsel is responsible for contracting, corporate compliance, and all other legal obligations and matters.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide accurate legal guidance to management on all matters that affect the company
• Set internal governance policies and manage the impact of external factors
• Evaluate and weigh multiple inputs and impacts of any decision or course of action
• Identify proactive solutions that will anticipate issues and eliminate or mitigate risks
• Base decision-making process on ethics and integrity
• Create associations of trust and respect with key stakeholders
• Attract, develop, direct, motivate and drive performance from team
• Deal with external parties (regulators, external counsel, clients, customers, etc…)
• Participate in audits, investigations, and inquiries and take necessary action and/or make recommendations
• Negotiate, write and execute agreements and contract to minimize risks and maximize legal rights
• Advise management on intellectual property matters including patent prosecution, patent and software licensing, copyright protection and maintenance of trademark portfolio
• Oversee advertising and marketing materials to ensure that they are in compliance with legal requirements
• Provide training to company and its affiliates on substantive legal topics.
• Ensure the Company conducts its business in compliance with applicable US federal and state, and international regulations relating to privacy and security
• Keep abreast of legislative changes
• Lead and develop members of the legal, quality and regulatory team

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• Professional degree in law
• 10+ years’ of increasingly responsible legal experience
• Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate law, litigations, labor law, patents, trademarks, IP, etc…)
• Well-versed in how business operate with financial acumen
• Must have in-depth health care compliance experience
• Must have extensive experience in drafting and reviewing contracts
• Ability to travel as needed for the position

JOB COMPETENCIES

• Leadership - Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• Managing for Results - Sets challenging and productive goals for team, keeps team accountable for actions, provides leadership and motivation, provides resources and support, uses checkpoints and data to track progress, sets up systems and processes to measure results.
• People Development - Provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops employees, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity.
• Listening Skills - Listens attentively to others, asks clarifying questions, actively listens, stays open to other viewpoints, manages distractions and interruptions.
• Negotiation Skills - Conducts positive negotiations, ability to compromise, handles conflict, seeks common ground, articulates own and others’ goals, stays focused on positive outcome.
• Problem Solving/Analysis - Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Quality Work - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Sense of Urgency - Prioritizes well, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, meets deadlines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

At Canon Medical Informatics (formerly Vital Images, Inc.), what we do matters. This is at the heart of every product we develop, every service we provide, and especially each member of our team. As part of Canon Medical Systems Corporation, we lead the industry with the latest health imaging informatics solutions. We improve the quality of patient care by developing innovative products that enable the exchange, analysis and storage of clinical information across health care enterprises and communities. Our products handle millions of medical images and health records a day across the world. Canon Medical Informatics experiences the best of both worlds with a dynamic and collaborative environment, casual culture, and agility of a mid-sized company, while having the support and resources of Canon Medical Systems Corporate, our parent company.

Our offices are based in Minnetonka, Minnesota; Waterloo, Ontario; Copenhagen, Denmark; The Netherlands; and Beijing, China. We value our team’s innovation, enthusiasm, and dedication to help improve the lives of patients. Do you want to be part of a passionate team that believes what we do matters? Then a career with Canon Medical Informatics might be right for you!

COMPANY VALUES

Integrity, Customer Focused, Collaborative, Problem Solvers and Drive

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

Canon Medical Informatics offers a dynamic workplace, competitive compensation package, and room for learning and growth in our organization. This is an environment in which things move quickly and you’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats. We have a casual dress code, offer flexible work hours and actively foster work-life balance, because anything else simply isn’t sustainable. Our Minnetonka, MN office is located about 12 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Our office is near several walking paths and restaurants that are a quick drive away. In our office of 175, we have on onsite deli, workout facility and weekly massages. Our team loves what we do and has fun doing it together. We look forward to receiving an application from you.

Canon Medical Informatics is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.