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Provides legal counsel to UnitedHealthcare’s Clinical Services Organization on health benefits, insurance, commercial, contracts, regulatory, and compliance matters. Advises senior leaders, supports utilization management and clinical appeals, reviews policies and contracts, develops legal risk practices, supports clinical programs, manages regulatory relationships, and negotiates agreements across a matrixed legal and business environment.

Primary attorney for Medicare Part D: advise on product, operations, formulary/clinical issues, PBM agreements, CMS/regulatory compliance (False Claims Act, Anti‑Kickback), support regulatory advocacy, and collaborate with legal and compliance teams to provide strategic counsel to business leaders.

Serve as enterprise antitrust counsel, advising senior leaders and outside counsel on competition matters across litigation, M&A, procurement, employment, data governance, and transactions; respond to subpoenas and investigations; advise on conflicts of interest; develop legal strategy and deliver antitrust training in coordination with compliance.

Provides legal counsel for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, and strategic transactions. Negotiates complex deals, manages internal and external stakeholders, oversees outside advisors, assesses legal risks, and advises executives on domestic and international legal and commercial matters. Requires an active law license, transactional legal experience, M&A expertise, strong analytical, writing, influencing, communication, and strategic decision-making skills.

Manages subsidiary governance, internal mergers, legal entity restructurings, corporate documentation, board and shareholder actions, public company governance, and strategic initiatives for the Corporate Secretary function. Coordinates deliverables across Legal, Finance, and Investor Relations; supports executive reporting; tracks regulatory requirements; improves governance processes and controls; and mitigates compliance risks.

Leads financial services and tax policy advocacy for External Affairs by monitoring legislation and regulations, analyzing Congressional and agency activity, developing policy messaging and strategies, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, and engaging policymakers and stakeholders. The role translates policy developments into business impacts, produces executive communications and thought leadership, facilitates internal working groups, and advances organizational advocacy priorities.

Leads legal support for Optum Health acquisitions and strategic transactions, including deal structuring, negotiation, diligence, governance approvals, risk mitigation, and post-close matters. Manages and develops a legal team, coordinates enterprise stakeholders, oversees outside counsel, establishes scalable workflows, and provides strategic, business-oriented guidance to business development, finance, and operations leaders.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal advice across the business; draft and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, software licensing, subcontracting, reseller); support data governance, regulatory compliance, healthcare-specific issues; assist with M&A, risk management, legal training, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid Leeds-based digital healthcare business.

Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of complex, high-value client contracts (primarily PBM and healthcare). Serve as first‑chair negotiator, advise senior leaders on legal and regulatory risk, partner with sales/finance/compliance, manage contract lifecycle and dispute resolution, develop templates and playbooks, and mentor junior attorneys while aligning legal advice with enterprise strategy and risk mitigation.

The Associate Director oversees licensing strategy, manages a team, ensures regulatory compliance, and represents the organization in licensing matters.