New Job Opening: Legal Counsel: Healthcare in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Job Description

What’s in it for you?

• Lead complex commercial contracting across a growing healthcare business


• Drive legal operations, technology and process improvement initiatives


• Permanent, F/T or P/T, and hybrid working (1 day required in the office only)

About your new employer:

• Our client is a large Australian proprietary company with opportunities to interact with sister companies in overseas jurisdictions


• They have grown into a major international healthcare business, backed by leading institutional investors and clinician shareholders, with continued expansion planned across key global markets.

About the role:

This is a broad in-house commercial legal position combining business-as-usual contracting and advisory work with a significant legal operations focus.

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating major medical equipment procurement agreements.


• Advising on customer service agreements, including public-private partnership-style arrangements.


• Managing property agreements and contracts with medical practitioners.


• Providing commercial legal advice across marketing, billing and healthcare regulatory matters.


• Developing and maintaining contract precedents, templates and playbooks.


• Improving contract intake, review and approval processes.


• Supporting the implementation of contract management systems and legal technology.


• Exploring and deploying AI-assisted contract review and other efficiency tools.


• Training legal and non-legal stakeholders on new systems, processes and ways of working.

The ideal candidate:

• At least 5 years’ post-admission experience.


• Strong commercial contracting and negotiation experience.


• Previous in-house legal experience.


• Experience within the healthcare industry.


• Training from a leading commercial law firm.


• Demonstrated legal operations or legal transformation experience.


• Experience implementing and managing legal technologies, contract processes and precedents.

If this role does not align to your experience and/or career goals, please contact us to discuss other suitable opportunities.

Why work with us?

• We have access to 50% more roles than are publicly available.


• You will receive free CV and content advice as well as interview preparation assistance specific to the role.


• We are intimately aware of market trends including team/firmwide inside information and what salary you can achieve in the current market.


• Naiman Clarke are celebrating 25 years of excellence in the legal recruitment industry this year.  Our team of experienced, legally trained, consultants have over 40 years of combined experience working exclusively in the legal recruitment sector. 

Contact Bart today!

Please quote reference number BT/58202

• Call or text: 0483 957 178


• Email:  [email protected]


• LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-thevenot/