Sr Director, Assistant General Counsel

General Purpose Of The Job

Attorneys successful in this position will provide legal guidance and support on contractual, regulatory, operations, and risk matters associated with DaVita’s business lines. This attorney’s primary focus will be working with and advising DaVita’s Payor Partnerships senior leadership and business team on issues related to contracts (fee-for-service and value-based), healthcare transactions, risk mitigation issues, and healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse laws and regulations; reviewing and drafting organizational, transactional and related agreements; and drafting all documents associated with DaVita’s payor contract portfolio.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior-level attorney on day-to-day and strategic legal matters and support lane lead in management of Payor Contracting Legal lane.
• Manage complex projects involving diverse stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Draft, review, and negotiate plan and provider agreements and amendments.
• Ability and confidence to sit work on complex projects and negotiations.
• Actively participate in the development and implementation and revision of contract templates, playbooks, process and training designed to increase efficiency and decrease contract cycle times.
• Thoughtfully lead and collaborate throughout the contracting and legal review processes by analyzing significant business, financial, and legal risks.
• Develop and effectively articulate creative solutions and mitigation strategies for key negotiation points to achieve timely and beneficial results.
• Cultivate and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships, analyze and revise contract language, resolve issues, coordinate with legal and non-legal teammates, and communicate regularly with peers and leadership.
• Assist and collaborate with other DaVita attorneys, compliance teammates, privacy teammates, and business clients in identifying and resolving legal matters.
• Advises on compliance with federal and state laws and regulations in relation to DaVita’s payor contracts.
• Maintain awareness of state law and federal law changes in relevant legal areas (regulations, statutes, case law, enforcement) and provide education to clients and DaVita teammates on such changes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten plus years of relevant law practice in the United States required.
• Large law firm or Fortune 500 in-house counsel experience preferred.
• JD from an ABA accredited law school.
• Licensed to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction required with the ability to waive into Colorado, if needed.
• Subject matter expert in health law and substantial experience in the healthcare/life sciences space.
• Experience with Managed Care Contracting.
• Lead role in matters (i.e. “1st chair”).
• Advisor and strategic partner to the senior business leadership.
• Assists in setting and achieving goals and budget for lane.
• Ability to manage strategic initiatives/projects for JLD.
• Ability to effectively manage outside counsel within budget.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• High degree of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail.
• Strong management capabilities.
• Able to manage several matters simultaneously in a fast-paced workplace environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to manage several matters simultaneously in a fast-paced workplace environment.
• High degree of maturity and professionalism.
• Commitment to personal and professional growth.
• Candid and personally secure.
• Ability and willingness to seek and receive feedback constructively as development opportunities.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently within scope of responsibilities and with minimal supervision and to foster a positive work environment.
• Ability to be “second-in-command” to lane lead.

Essential Behaviors, Skills, and Attitudes Required for Success in This Position

• Commitment to DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun with ability to demonstrate those positively and proactively to patients, teammates, management, physicians, and/or vendors (Village Service Partners) in everyday performance and interactions.
• Ability to distill and articulate complex legal concepts into clear and crisp “plain English” that clients can readily understand and apply.
• Work with clients proactively to identify risks and ensure appropriate risk mitigation strategies are employed.
• Provide valuable advice and counsel within the context of the broader business and enterprise level objectives.
• Proactively communicate and manage expectations with multiple constituencies.
• Demonstrated business acumen, including the ability to see the “big picture” as well as the relationship of very detailed and specific business issues.
• Hands-on, efficient, and proven ability to “Get [a lot of] Stuff Done” with a basis for action and strong sense of ownership.
• A commitment to personal and professional growth.
• Candid and personally secure.
• Ability and willingness to seek and receive feedback constructively as development opportunities.
• Demonstrated time management skills and ability to handle multiple priorities with shifting time frames, and meet tight deadlines; self-starter with high degree of initiative, urgency, and follow-through.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently within scope of responsibilities and with minimal supervision and to foster a positive work environment.
• Ability to be “second-in-command” to lane lead.

Pay

The Salary Range for the role is $148,000.00 - $234,000.00/year. For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

What We’ll Provide

Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."

Go to http://careers.davita.com to learn more or apply.