Senior Counsel - Procurement

About the role

This is a position within the Legal Department held by a lawyer with strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective, and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters or in a particular specialty practice area (e.g., litigation, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, privacy law, health law, technology law, or employment and labor law).

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate a wide range of technology and services procurement deals across Management Services Organization (MSO) businesses, with a current focus in retina health.
• Handle software licensing, data licensing and subscriptions, website hosting and development, telecom, consulting, hardware purchases and leases, and other technology-related agreements (including contracts for artificial intelligence solutions).
• Work with 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 in technology solutions and services, intellectual property, and commercial data analytics.
• Draft and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements.
• Deliver effective legal services to clients with minimal supervision on customary and recurring projects.
• Manage legal projects and matters, demonstrating project management skills for mixed legal and business responsibilities.
• Represent Cencora and relevant client groups on customary business contracts and negotiations.
• Make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations.
• Solve straightforward problems, analyze solutions, and assess using standard procedures.
• Juggle multiple matters, multi-task, and prioritize to ensure timely and efficient completion.
• Adapt to change and shift gears comfortably.
• Seek out and accept developmental opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas: commercial contracting, health law, technology law, and intellectual property.
• Sufficient expertise in relevant practice areas to provide effective legal counsel.
• Law Degree from an accredited law school and admission to a state bar.
• Experience comparable to a senior associate or counsel in a law firm; capable of sophisticated work as an individual contributor with minimal guidance, and/or supervising and project managing other legal professionals.

Skills

• Familiarity with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and legal procedures.
• Ability to negotiate and manage strategic, customer-facing healthcare data and technology solutions agreements, including arrangements involving digital therapies, artificial intelligence, and software solutions.
• Willingness to work with fast-paced procurement and business teams on reviews of new services arrangements, product launches, and updates to existing technology products and services.
• Proficiency in complex healthcare regulatory laws and issue resolution.
• Ability to manage a large portfolio of procurement deals and timely deliver work product to procurement teams and business partners.
• Capability to negotiate a range of vendor agreements and advise MSO, procurement, and information technology teams.
• Proficiency in M&A due diligence relative to transactions involving technology and IP.
• Expertise to supervise outside lawyers engaged on matters for Cencora, including law firms used for assignments in the lawyer's practice area.
• Ability to build knowledge of Cencora's businesses and industry policies and practices.
• Reliance on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to follow and interpret legal trends.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

Cencora provides compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, a comprehensive suite of benefits focuses on physical, emotional, financial, and social wellness.

• Support for working families: backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support
• Behavioral health solutions
• Paid parental leave
• Paid caregiver leave
• Training programs and professional development resources
• Mentorship programs
• Employee resource groups
• Volunteer activities

For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Pay

Full-time position. Salary Range: $119,100 – $186,560 (National Average). The actual range may vary based on locale. Ranges in Colorado, California, Washington, New York, Hawaii, Vermont, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Illinois may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.