Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel

Legal and compliance counsel to healthcare businesses and medical departments in Canada, local counsel for business functions and privacy matters, strategic advisor and counsel responsible to coordinate legal matters with global and regional colleagues.

Bayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a permanent position based out of Mississauga, ON.

What you will do:

• Delivers excellent legal support and strategic direction to Bayer Canada in collaboration with colleagues on the Law Patents & Compliance Canada team.
• Provides legal advice and direction on commercial, compliance and privacy matters for healthcare businesses and enabling functions to achieve our mission of Health for All, Hunger for None.
• Provides legal and compliance advice to our commercial and functional teams across Canada on marketing, advertising, corporate commercial, regulatory, litigation and privacy matters working with internal and external partners to advance impactful projects that enhance the lives of patients and farmers, putting customers, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders first.
• Working with Bayer Canada colleagues to take responsibility for local level impacts and coordinating with regional and global colleagues on matters that extend beyond Canada.

Who you are:

• Bachelor of Laws and Canadian Bar Admission in good standing
• Minimum 5 years of legal experience in a fast-paced environment in-house or at a major law firm
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, a strategic thinker with leadership qualities, ability to influence without formal authority.
• Healthcare industry or transferable industry knowledge/ experience
• Privacy expertise or ability to upskill in privacy law and obtain privacy designation
• Bilingualism in French an asset.

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and rewards package
• Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture
• Career development and global opportunities
• Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.

Bayer welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Candidates participating in our selection process requiring accommodation due to a disability or medical need are encouraged to notify the Bayer representative that they will be meeting with to ensure appropriate arrangements can be made.

Application Deadline: March 14th, 2025