Sr. Legal Specialist – Provider Solutions

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Title: Sr. Legal Specialist Provider Solutions

Location: Atlanta GA; Columbus OH; Dallas or The Woodlands TX (PREFERRED)

Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: Remote

POSITION SUMMARY

McKessons General Counsel Organization (GCO) is seeking a highly experienced Senior Legal Specialist to support Provider Solutions including businesses such as GPO Specialty Distribution Biologics and Intrafusion. All work in this role is performed under the supervision of a licensed attorney. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned legal professional who combines strong legal judgment with demonstrated leadership in process improvement workflow optimization and legal operations. The Senior Legal Specialist operates with a high degree of independence serves as a key point of contact for a broad range of legal matters including issue spotting triage and matter coordination and partners closely with supervising attorneys and business stakeholders. This position advances scalable efficient and technology-enabled legal operations across the organization while supporting high-quality consistent legal and contracting outcomes in a highly collaborative team-oriented environment where partnership and shared ownership are core to how work gets done.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as an initial point of contact for a broad range of legal matters within Provider Solutions and across Oncology and Multispecialty independently identifying and analyzing legal regulatory and business issues; exercising mature professional judgment to determine appropriate paths forward; and engaging supervising attorneys strategically on novel high-risk or precedent-setting matters.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement initiatives across legal operations including enhancing intake and triage models standardizing contracting processes templates and playbooks optimizing workflows and advancing scalable efficient and high-quality legal operations across Provider Solutions.
• Identify legal regulatory and business risks; assess potential impact; propose practical mitigation strategies; communicate recommended positions in clear business-focused terms; and drive efficient issue resolution through standardized scalable approaches where appropriate.
• Review analyze and negotiate commercial agreements and related documentation utilizing approved templates and standard positions where available promoting consistency and efficiency in contract execution and escalating non-standard issues as appropriate.
• Agreement types may include without limitation complex service agreements data sharing and data access agreements GPO agreements and amendments HCP consulting and professional services agreements technology and software services agreements and confidentiality agreements.
• Partner cross-functionally with privacy compliance security finance IT and other stakeholders to support timely informed decision-making and streamlined execution of legal and contracting workflows.
• Apply AI-enabled and other technologyenabled tools together with sound judgment to produce highquality contract summaries including in support of M&A activities and integrations as well as briefing materials and other work product for attorneys and business stakeholders; support streamlined legal operations and improved turnaround times.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THIS ROLE

• Matters are advanced efficiently and consistently applying sound judgment and a digital-first continuous-improvement mindset including effective use of streamlined scalable workflows and technology-enabled tools and engaging supervising attorneys proactively on novel high-risk or precedent-setting issues.
• Business partners experience Legal as customer-first and outcomes-oriented: guidance is practical risks are clearly framed and collaboration across functions reduces friction streamlines legal and contracting workflows and accelerates decision-making that enables the business.
• Legal and contracting processes templates playbooks and workflows are modernized and scaled including thoughtful adoption of AI-enabled tools where appropriate with measurable improvements in cycle time quality consistency operational efficiency and the employee and stakeholder experience.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated mature professional judgment in navigating legal and business considerations including the ability to assess risk exercise discretion and escalate thoughtfully.
• Ability to work independently manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced matrixed environment.
• Experience drafting reviewing and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain risk and recommended paths forward in clear business-focused terms.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting healthcare businesses including GPOs specialty distribution biologics multispecialty or other regulated healthcare services.
• Strong partnership with privacy compliance data governance and security teams on legal and contracting matters.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or contribute to process improvement initiatives (e.g. playbooks templates workflow redesign CLM tools or other legal technology solutions).
• In-house legal or legal operations experience including support for contracting or workflow management practices.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Typically requires approximately 7 years of relevant legal experience in a legal specialist paralegal or similar advanced legal support role including substantial commercial contracting exposure and meaningful involvement in process improvement workflow optimization or legal operations initiatives.
• In-house legal or legal operations experience preferred.

OTHER

• This description is general in nature and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned as needed to meet company goals.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & TYPICAL EXPERIENCE OR EQUIVALENT COMBINATION

• Degree or equivalent andtypically requires 7 years ofrelevant experience.

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

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