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The Role
The Legal Specialist will support commercial activities for Lyra Mexico, focusing on contract negotiation and legal matters across various jurisdictions in LATAM.
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About Lyra
Lyra Health is the leading provider of mental health solutions for employers supporting more than 20 million people globally. The company has delivered 13 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
This is a new role in Lyra's Mexico operations, supporting internal stakeholders in fulfilling Lyra’s mission to bring mental and emotional health solutions to large employers across the globe. This is a full-time role that will report to Lyra’s Senior Commercial Counsel, International and requires a hybrid in person attendance in Lyra’s Mexico City office, with the balance of remote work.
Your role will focus on supporting the commercial activities of Lyra Mexico, with primary support being delivered to the Mexico Country Manager, including review and negotiation of contracts (new and renewals), as well as support with other legal matters as needed to support the operations work of the business in Mexico and other jurisdictions in LATAM.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced contract manager, who also has experience supporting an array of legal matters for an in-house team. The individual will be expected to know what matters to escalate to others within the legal team or the business teams in the Mexico operations. The legal team plays an essential role at the company, responding and managing all legal questions, and candidates with all round experience are welcome to help support the various needs of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Independently review, redline, and negotiate terms for various commercial agreements, including Saas agreements, new customer agreements, contract renewals, provider agreements, confidentiality agreements, statements of work, data security agreements, requests for proposals (RFPs) and other documents; when appropriate, collaborate with internal stakeholders to define/drive discussions
- Create playbook/guidelines to help streamline review of contracts and create efficiencies in the contracting process
- Collaborate with internal and external experts to ensure that agreements comply with policies, laws, rules, and regulations.
- Support legal requirements on signature and filings as required for Mexican entity.
- Liaise with internal legal team to support activities of Mexican entity
- Provide practical and creative support on business matters in a fast-paced environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in law degree.
- 4+ years experience negotiating, drafting, and/or editing with a wide range of commercial agreements, including technology transactions, health care agreements, data sharing agreements, NDAs, and sales contracts.
- Excellent communication skills; must be fluent in English and Spanish
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities, judgment, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with contracting in Mexico and other jurisdictions within LATAM
- Experience supporting executives in on internal projects, including collecting, distilling and summarizing issues from relevant stakeholders
- Experience working with the legal team at a technology company (including working with legal technology contracting tools) and/or health care organization strongly preferred.
- Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the workplace
"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.
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