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Commercial Counsel

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Commercial Counsel at GHX, providing legal support for commercial transactions and managing the company's intellectual property portfolio. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure compliance with regulations and support business growth in the healthcare technology sector.

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.
  • Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Provide global legal support on commercial transactions by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts.
  • Draft and maintain template agreements while identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support product development and ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
  • Manage and develop the company's intellectual property portfolio, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • Commercial Counsel
  • $143K – $160K / year
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Analytical Skills

About the company

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GHX

  • Digital Health
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
GHX is a software-as-a-service company that’s reducing the cost of doing business in healthcare by automating supply chain processes and improving visibility into the products used in patient care. We’ve built the GHX Global Network, the world’s largest community of healthcare trading partners, connecting supply chain, finance and clinical professionals with their suppliers. Our cloud-based technology makes it easier for customers to drive costs out of the healthcare supply chain. Since 2010, we’ve saved the healthcare industry $5+ billion. Today we’re expanding our solutions to further enhance data management and allow integration of clinical and business systems. The Industry We Serve Our focus is on the healthcare supply chain, through which hospitals and their suppliers buy and deliver the thousands of medical-surgical supplies that clinicians need to effectively care for patients. For most hospitals, supply chain costs are the second largest and fastest growing operational expense, so reining in these costs is imperative. Our Products and Services At the heart of GHX is the GHX Exchange, a platform that connects healthcare providers and suppliers so they can work together electronically. This helps lower costs and simplifies supply chain management by eliminating error-prone, manual order processes. GHX solutions include: • An open and neutral electronic trading exchange • Procurement and accounts payable automation • Content, contract and inventory management • Business intelligence and reporting • Standards enablement and data synchronization

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Job description

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

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. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/ 

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.

Disclaimer
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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