Job Summary

The Paralegal is responsible for supporting commercial sales and service teams with legal review, drafting agreements, managing contract terms, and ensuring compliance with various legal and regulatory requirements. This role involves close collaboration with business units, managing customer disputes, and driving improvements in paralegal processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Support commercial sales and service with respect to legal review of customer terms, bid tender submissions, HIPAA Business Associate Agreements, and customer disputes
Support commercial sales and services with legal review of government contract terms and conditions
Draft commercial sales and services agreements with customers, including revisions to customer terms and conditions
Draft commercial sales and services agreements with group purchasing organizations and integrated delivery networks
Train commercial sales and service on “battle of the forms” process, term interpretation and drafting agreements
Draft standard agreements (e.g., confidential disclosure, material transfer, evaluation, and professional services agreements)
Engage with external customers and their legal representatives regarding contract terms
Provide guidance as required
Perform legal research as required
Maintain library of forms and resources
Owner of the paralegal request SharePoint site to ensure turnaround targets are met
Responsible to drive for improvements in paralegal process SharePoint and identify opportunities that impact turnaround times and impact to revenue
Develop written procedures, workflow plans or other systems for practice areas as required
Professionally and diplomatically resolve issues regarding customer concerns and other matters as necessary
Apply innovative problem-solving skills and judgment to assist in managing corporate risk
Identify best practices to influence continuous improvement in the organization

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

Familiar with anti-kickback, HIPAA, and medical device industry
Ability to work closely with business units, as necessary, while maintaining independent judgment and decision-making skills
Ability to apply analytical skills to interpret data and use independent judgment and discretion in developing solutions to address a variety of issues regarding contracts and related problems of moderate scope and complexity
Ability to quickly acquire knowledge of new business activities or issues
Ability to adjust to changing job requirements and priorities in order to meet dynamic needs and workflow
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment and meet tight deadlines
Demonstrated ability to work with outside counsel and to interact with senior management
Must demonstrate a high degree of organizational skills and professionalism
Strong presentation and written and verbal communication skills; strong project management skills

Education/Experience

BA/BS from an accredited college or university, a paralegal certificate from an ABA accredited school (or any equivalent combination of related experience, training, and/or education), plus five or more years of experience as a paralegal which should preferably be in-house for a corporation.

Education: High School

Skills: forms,legal review,process improvement,legal research,communication skills,draft,hipaa,project management,hipaa compliance,analytical skills,management,drafting agreements,contract drafting,dispute management,business units

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