This role provides legal counsel to the Legal & Compliance Department, providing support to the company's corporate legal function, including litigation, intellectual property, corporate governance and entity management. This individual is an experienced, forward-thinking attorney who exercises independent judgment on complex and sensitive legal matters, manages outside counsel and litigation strategy, advises senior leadership on governance matters, and can think creatively while working well with internal and external stakeholders.
Essential Job Responsibilities Include:
- Manage the company's litigation portfolio, including developing litigation strategy, directing and overseeing outside counsel, and advising leadership on risk and exposure across employment, commercial, and regulatory disputes.
- Manage the company’s intellectual property matters, including trademark registration and review.
- Advise senior leadership on corporate governance matters, including entity management, board and committee governance, corporate policies, and regulatory filings.
- Manage the preparation and filing of entity licensing and registration documents with federal, state, and local agencies.
- Develop, implement, and maintain company policies and processes related to corporate matters, including litigation readiness, entity management and governance.
- Manage relationships with outside counsel for litigation and corporate matters.
- Train, mentor, and provide guidance to junior attorneys and paralegals.
- Provide general legal support for company operations, including researching and analyzing federal and state laws related to litigation, corporate governance, and the healthcare/pharmacy industry.
- All other duties as assigned.
Required Skills / Experience:
- Bachelor's degree, Juris Doctorate, and active State Bar Certification.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant legal experience, including substantial experience in corporate matters and litigation management.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex or high-stakes litigation and directing outside counsel.
- Experience supporting and advising senior leadership on corporate governance matters.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing, training, or mentoring attorneys and/or paralegals.
- Demonstrated competence in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint required.
- Must have excellent legal research and writing, negotiation, organizational, teamwork and communications skills.
- Demonstrated dedication to a high level of client service, sound business and legal judgment and ability to determine priorities to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- Self-motivation and attention to detail.
- Must have the ability to take ownership and prioritize multiple competing projects independently.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Experience with healthcare law, including HIPAA.
- Experience with the pharmacy and/or medical benefits industry.
- Experience advising public, private equity-backed, or venture-backed company boards.
- In-house legal department experience at a senior or leadership level.
Based on relevant market data and other factors, the anticipated hiring range for this role is $136,000 to $170,000 annually. Final compensation rates will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, and internal equity considerations. This role is also short-term incentive eligible. Incentive amounts will vary by individual and business goals.
We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The final salary offered to the selected candidate may vary from the posted range due to individual qualifications. Our goal is to ensure that all teammates are compensated fairly and competitively based on their contributions to our organization.
RxBenefits is also committed to providing best in class benefits to our teammates. We offer a robust total rewards package that includes:
- Remote first work environment
- Choice of a HDHP or PPO Medical plan, we pay 100% of the premium for the HDHP for you and your eligible family members
- Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability, and Group Life Insurance that we also pay 100% of premiums (for your family too on Dental and Vision)
- Additional buy-up options for Short- and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) with an employer match up to 3.5% available after 60 days
- Community Service Day to give back and support what you love in your community
- 10 company holidays including MLK Day, Juneteenth, and the day after Thanksgiving plus a floating holiday to use as you like
- Reimbursements for high-speed internet, we’ll send you a computer and monitors to help you do your best work
- Tuition Reimbursement for accredited degree programs
- Paid New Parent Leave that can be used for adoption or birth
- Pet insurance to protect your furbabies
- A robust mental health benefit and EAP service through Spring Health to support you when you need it most
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Juris Doctorate
- Active State Bar Certification
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant legal experience
- Substantial experience in corporate matters and litigation management
- Experience managing complex or high-stakes litigation and directing outside counsel
- Experience advising senior leadership on corporate governance matters
- Leadership experience managing, training, or mentoring attorneys or paralegals
- Competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Excellent legal research, writing, negotiation, organizational, teamwork, and communication skills
- Ability to provide strong client service and exercise sound business and legal judgment
- Ability to prioritize multiple competing projects independently and meet deadlines
- Self-motivation and attention to detail
- Healthcare law experience, including HIPAA
- Experience with the pharmacy or medical benefits industry
- Experience advising public, private equity-backed, or venture-backed company boards
- Senior- or leadership-level in-house legal department experience
What We Do
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Birmingham, AL with an office in Towson, MD, RxBenefits is the employee benefit industry’s first and only technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO). Today, we employ more than 700 pharmacy pricing, data, and clinical experts to deliver prescription benefit savings to employee benefit consultants and their self-funded clients. RxBenefits exists to ensure EBC’s can offer mid-sized employers and their members an affordable pharmacy benefit solution combined with a Fortune 100 service experience. Our unique approach is enabled by our market-leading purchasing power, independent clinical solutions and high-touch superior service, allowing our clients to achieve their pharmacy program objectives. RxBenefits’ unwavering commitment to keeping pharmacy benefits affordable has created a better solution for the ever-changing market. RxBenefits provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.
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