Managing Chief Counsel — Core Ventures and US Oncology Network Regulatory

Overview

This role serves as a Managing Chief Counsel providing principal legal guidance and strategic partnership to Core Ventures (a management services organization supporting Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute) and regulatory support for the US Oncology Network.

The position is a broad generalist role spanning transactions, operations, data governance, and healthcare regulation across a community oncology platform. Responsibilities include end-to-end legal leadership across the Core Ventures operating model—management services agreements, intercompany arrangements, practice integration and post-close structuring, enterprise contracting, and data governance—and regulatory guidance for the Network, including healthcare fraud and abuse analysis, CMS and state regulatory requirements, HIPAA and PHI governance, privacy review, and support for compliance programs.

Responsibilities

Core Ventures

• Provide legal oversight of the Core Ventures operating model, including management services agreements, intercompany arrangements, and amendments.
• Advise Core Ventures executive leadership by preparing and presenting executive and board-level materials supporting major initiatives and significant obligations.
• Support practice integration and post-close structuring, including asset transfers, physician alignment, and ownership frameworks.
• Lead negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements, including vendor and supplier contracts, strategic partnerships and affiliations, and data services, pharmacy, and technology arrangements.
• Design and implement contracting governance frameworks covering intake, review, approval, and execution.

Network Regulatory and Compliance Partnership

• Advise on healthcare regulatory frameworks, including anti-kickback, fraud and abuse laws, CMS requirements, and state regulations affecting community oncology practices.
• Partner with business unit and enterprise compliance teams to advance compliance programs and initiatives.
• Advise on regulatory questions arising from patient communications and care model programs, including social determinants of health initiatives under the Enhancing Oncology Model.

Team Leadership

• Supervise, mentor, and develop attorneys and legal specialists supporting Core Ventures; allocate work so matters are handled at the appropriate level.
• Drive continuous improvement in intake, triage, and workflow so legal support scales with Core Ventures growth.

Legal Operations and Transformative Thinking

• Partner cross-functionally with privacy, compliance, security, finance, procurement, IT, and operations to support timely, informed decision-making and streamlined execution.
• Lead continuous improvement across legal operations, including utilizing AI-enabled and other technology-enabled tools, intake and triage contracting models, standardized templates and playbooks, and workflow redesign—so legal support scales without a proportional increase in headcount.

Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school; typically 12 or more years of relevant legal experience.
• Active membership in good standing of at least one state bar.
• Substantial healthcare regulatory experience, including fraud and abuse laws, Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, and state corporate practice of medicine and licensure frameworks.
• Experience leading or developing a legal team, including attorneys and legal support professionals.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and healthcare services agreements.
• Mature professional judgment in navigating legal and business considerations, including the ability to assess risk, exercise discretion, and escalate thoughtfully.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk and recommended paths forward in clear, business-focused terms to executives and clinicians.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting physician practices, management services organizations, or other regulated healthcare services businesses.
• Experience advising on value-based care and CMS innovation models, including the Enhancing Oncology Model or similar programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or contribute to process improvement initiatives, such as playbooks, templates, workflow redesign, contract lifecycle management, or other legal technology solutions.
• Prior in-house experience in a large, matrixed organization.

Education and Experience

• Juris Doctor plus typically 12 or more years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house or healthcare regulatory practice.
• People leadership experience preferred; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Remote
• Dallas or The Woodlands, TX; Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; Fort Myers, FL

Work Authorization

• Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorship is not available for this position.