Job Summary
The Senior Contracts and Legal Specialist plays a key role in the Contracts and Legal department through effective contract and legal matter management in accordance with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage the entire contract lifecycle to include intake and triage, drafting, reviewing, negotiating, executing, filing, renewing or terminating contracts of low to high complexity.
- Manage queue of contracting and legal requests according to priority and urgency, while managing multiple, competing deadlines.
- Review, redline, and negotiate contracts according to organizational standards and ensuring regulatory compliance. Primarily sell-side contracting for all lines of business for new business and renewals. Low volume of buy-side contracting aligned by category.
- Contracts types include but are not limited to: Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements, Services Agreements, Statements of Work, Business Associate Agreements, Data Protection Agreements, Independent Contractor Agreements, Software License Agreements, and Software as a Service Agreements.
- Route documents for deviation review and approvals as necessary; route for signatures.
- Manage expirations and collaborate with Sales & Account Management teams and internal business partners on renewals.
- Maintain and optimize contracting processes within LinkSquares contract management system ensuring accurate data entry, document naming, tagging, and filing.
- Assist with template maintenance; playbook and clause library development.
- Assist with corporate filings and registrations with government entities.
- Coordinate and prepare document production subpoena responses.
- Serve as a key point of contact to internal stakeholders and business partners on contracting best practices, internal standards, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with Operations & Medical Records teams regarding certain requests for medical records.
- Ensure a high level of responsiveness to internal stakeholders and collaborate on cross-functional objectives.
- Oversee departmental operations in Manager's absence.
- Perform additional duties and assume additional responsibilities as identified by manager for the efficient operation of WorkCare.