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Description

Overview

We are hiring a critical team member to join Edifecs’ Legal team as Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions. You will play a vital role in Edifecs’ growth. The ideal candidate will possess strong in-house experience in healthcare software transactions.

For this position, you will execute on a variety of complex commercial contracts. The successful candidate will be ready to navigate a growth-oriented, rapidly changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment. This person will be comfortable juggling multiple tasks under tight deadlines and must be a strong writer and communicator at senior levels of the organization. A passion for personal accountability and setting high standards is essential for success.

This is a temporary 3-6 month position, with the possibility of an extension.
 

What you will do:

• Review and negotiate complex customer-facing contracts that meet Edifecs’ requirements under its policies, including those for risk tolerance, while working collaboratively with the business teams.
• Strong experience drafting original legal provisions outside of form documents, which includes the ability to identify legal issues independently. 
• Collaborate and partner with sales, services, product, security, and other business units at all levels throughout the organization to ensure that customer contracts adequately protect Edifecs’ interests.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard forms of agreement and legal processes.
• Be a trusted business partner, responding in a timely and productive manner to requests from internal stakeholders.
• Counsel internal stakeholders regarding company policies, legal issues, and risk tolerance.
• Assist with special projects as needed.
  

What you will bring:

• JD Degree and active admission to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction where you reside is required.
• At least 8+ years relevant experience at a major law firm and/or in-house, including negotiating technology agreements.
• Proven proficiency in leading negotiations for customer-facing software and cloud contracts.
• Familiarity with the HIPAA and changing landscape of US Privacy laws is required.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into timely, clear, concise, and business-focused legal advice for internal stakeholders.
• Commitment to customer service (yes, our internal stakeholders are also our customers) and meeting the needs of internal stakeholders.
• Self-starter and ability to manage change within a fast-paced organization.
• Excellent project management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent at multitasking and managing competing priorities with little supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgement, and demonstrate business acumen.
  

About Edifecs

Edifecs is a premier technology company serving the U.S. healthcare market that empowers its customers to transform healthcare. For over 25 years, Edifecs has provided the market-leading interoperability platform. Edifecs payer and provider customers and technology partners are driving healthcare transformation with the ability to seamlessly exchange, unify, and normalize data to derive insights and intelligence and replace friction with collaboration across all stakeholders. Edifecs’ platform is the foundation to help customers overcome healthcare’s biggest challenges, including accelerating the adoption of value-based payment models, securing complete and accurate care funding for alternative payment models, and fully automating prior authorization. Edifecs offers natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide deeper insights into patients, populations, and business processes. As new standards and regulations continually emerge in government agencies, Edifecs is a proven partner to ensure its customers maintain “evergreen” compliance. Edifecs customers cover 290 million lives and include 100% of national health plans, 70% of state Medicaid programs, and 94% of the lives covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield payers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.
 

Edifecs will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities who need assistance applying for a job.  Please contact [email protected] for more information.