Commercial Counsel

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide global legal support on a wide range of commercial transactions, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with customers.
• Draft and maintain template agreements; identify gaps and recommend and develop legal and cross-functional contract processes and improvements.
• Review, implement, communicate, enforce, and manage legal contract processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support product development and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Provide clear, reasoned risk analysis and opportunities related to contracts and new and existing products and services for leadership.
• Manage the commercial go-to-market process, ensuring alignment with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and develop the company's intellectual property portfolio, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
• Manage and enforce the commercial legal contracting process to ensure efficiency and compliance.
• Develop and implement legal strategies to support business growth and innovation.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, data privacy laws, and industry standards.
• Manage and resolve legal disputes and claims in collaboration with external counsel when necessary.
• Stay current on relevant legal developments and industry trends to proactively address potential legal issues.
• Provide training and support to internal teams on legal and compliance matters.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in good standing.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an in-house commercial counsel, preferably in the healthcare SaaS technology industry.
• Strong understanding of contract law, commercial transactions, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience overseeing go-to-market processes and managing intellectual property portfolios.
• Experience managing and enforcing commercial legal contracting processes.
• Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a business-oriented approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing large-scale software programs, e.g., a contract lifecycle management program.
• Experience with AI in a legal department operations context.
• Experience with healthcare regulations and data privacy laws is a plus.

The compensation for this role is: $143,000- $160,000

Pay and benefits

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX's salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few.

GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.