Senior Contracts & Legal Specialist - Fully Remote in the US

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.