APAC Legal Counsel, Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific (APAC)

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The Opportunity:

This role seeks an experienced, licensed legal professional with a minimum of five years in Pharma or MedTech to serve as an APAC Legal Counsel, responsible for managing all regional legal matters. The position requires providing comprehensive corporate and commercial legal advice, including expertise in regulatory compliance, data privacy, IP, and employment law, while also managing external counsel, coordinating regional legal training, and actively contributing to the APAC legal network. Crucially, the ideal candidate must blend legal acumen with strong emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and experience in agile methodologies and leveraging technology to thrive in a complex, VUCA environment.

As the APAC Legal Counsel, you're responsible for:

• Supports all legal business matters pertaining to the APAC region,

• Provides a variety of general corporate and commercial legal services to a number of in-house clients and APAC Legal community,

• Acts as an advisor on legal issues involving the organization’s government and regulatory compliance

• Reviews legal data and advises organizations on appropriate legal action to be taken,

• Coordinates and monitors the legal matters handled by outside counsels and ensures the legal panel is updated based on the needs of the regional organization,

• Advises and supports on general corporate and commercial matters, including corporate governance and organization, drafting transactional documents, digital product license terms and conditions, commercial law, employment law, intellectual property and digital law, data privacy, competition law, contract management and dispute resolution,

• Active contribution to APAC Legal Network and CoPs,

• Coordinates the required legal trainings for the APAC region and affiliate employees

Who You Are:

• Requires a law degree and license to practice law,

• Minimum 5 years of experience preferably in a Pharma and/or MedTech Company with a proven track record,

• Experience in agile ways of working and methodologies

• Co-active coaching fundamentals or similar certification

• Savvy in leveraging technology to enable virtual teams

• Strong emotional intelligence. Able to establish caring connections and be a team player.

• Strategic thinking and influencing

• Proactive, entrepreneurial spirit & strong sense of pragmatism 

• Ability to manage complexity, a VUCA environment, while knowing how to enable simplification

• Analytical and system thinker

• Moderation & presentation skills

• Growth mindset, out of the box thinker who is intellectually curious to keep up with permanent change

• Embraces and creates a diverse and inclusive environment

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.