Senior Counsel - Procurement

Overview

This position sits within the Legal Department and is held by a lawyer responsible for delivering business-oriented, effective, and efficient legal services. The role includes legal service delivery, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters, with a particular focus on technology and services procurement (current focus in retina health).

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of technology and services procurement deals across Management Services Organization (MSO) businesses, including:
  • Software licensing, data licensing, and subscriptions
  • Website hosting and development
  • Telecom
  • Consulting
  • Hardware purchases and leases
  • Technology-related agreements, including contracts for artificial intelligence solutions
• Support contracting activities across contract types including MSAs, Statements of Work, License Agreements, SaaS and cloud agreements, Data Processing Agreements, and information security requirements.
• Advise clients on complex legal and regulatory issues involving technology solutions and services, intellectual property, and commercial data analytics.
• Draft and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements.
• Provide effective legal services to internal clients.
• Manage legal projects and matters with minimal supervision in most instances.
• Demonstrate project management capability, including taking on mixed legal and business responsibility for contract matters and other matters client groups want to pursue.
• Represent the organization and relevant client groups in customary business contract negotiations; may play an integral role in both legal and business negotiations.
• Make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations to clients.
• Solve a range of straightforward problems by analyzing possible solutions and assessing options using standard procedures.
• Manage multiple matters simultaneously through prioritization and effective multitasking.
• Cope with change and comfortably shift priorities as needed.
• Seek out and accept developmental opportunities.
• Plan and accomplish goals using extensive experience and judgment.
• Rely on extensive experience to coordinate work and, where needed, supervise outside lawyers engaged on matters.
• Build knowledge of the organization’s businesses and industry policies and practices.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer, combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas, including:
  • Commercial contracting
  • Health law
  • Technology law
  • Intellectual property
• Law degree from an accredited law school and admission into the state bar.
• Ability to negotiate and manage strategic, customer-facing healthcare data and technology solutions agreements, including arrangements involving digital therapies, artificial intelligence, and software solutions.
• Familiarity with a variety of legal concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Proficiency in complex healthcare regulatory laws and issue resolution.
• Ability to manage a large portfolio of procurement deals and deliver work product timely to procurement team and business partners.
• Ability to negotiate a range of vendor agreements and advise MSO, procurement, and information technology teams on those agreements.
• Proficiency in M&A due diligence relative to transactions involving technology and IP.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively.
• Strong negotiating, leadership, and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to follow and interpret legal trends.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supervising outside counsel engaged to work on matters.
• Experience and comfort supervising, project managing, and supporting other individual legal professionals as needed.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-time.
• Salary range: $119,100 - 186,560
  • This salary range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on locale.
  • Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision care, along with a comprehensive suite of wellness-focused benefits. Benefits may include:
  • Support for working families, including backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support
  • Behavioral health solutions
  • Paid parental leave and paid caregiver leave
  • Training and professional development resources
  • Mentorship programs, employee resource groups, and volunteer activities

Location

• National role (salary range reflects a National Average; locale may adjust the range as noted above).