Counsel, Commercial

Overview

As a member of the Corporate legal team, you will provide exceptional legal services to internal business units by responding to routine matters and questions in a timely manner. You will also review, draft and negotiate various contracts, but not limited to business associate agreements and statements of work. Additional responsibilities include contracts library research, administration, review of regulatory agreements and answering inquiries on RFPs.
Responsibilities

- Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and management of complex commercial agreements, including customer agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, vendor agreements, NDAs, licensing agreements, partnership agreements, business associate agreements, and other strategic contracts.

- Apply advanced legal and business judgment to evaluate complex contract terms, variable risk factors, regulatory considerations, and business objectives; recommend creative, practical, and effective solutions that balance legal risk with commercial goals.

- Independently determine appropriate negotiation strategies, methods, and procedures for new or complex assignments, adapting established legal principles, templates, playbooks, and evaluation criteria to achieve business-aligned outcomes.

- Advise internal stakeholders on complex commercial, operational, and regulatory matters, translating legal concepts into clear guidance and influencing outcomes through sound reasoning, persuasion, and business acumen.

- Understand and evaluate the interrelationships among legal, sales, operations, finance, compliance, privacy, security, and other business functions to identify downstream impacts and support coordinated decision-making.

- Develop, enhance, and guide the application of contract templates, standard terms, negotiation playbooks, policies, procedures, and workflow improvements to improve consistency, efficiency, scalability, and risk management across the commercial contracting process.

- Resolve complex contracting issues and escalations by analyzing facts, data, precedent, stakeholder positions, and business context; exercise independent judgment in selecting, adapting, and communicating recommended courses of action.

- Support strategic transactions, partnerships, renewals, amendments, terminations, and other business initiatives from initial discussion through execution, ensuring alignment with company objectives and applicable legal requirements.

- Prepare and review legal summaries, termination analyses, risk assessments, correspondence, and other documents that synthesize complex information for legal, business, and leadership audiences.

- Monitor relevant legal, regulatory, industry, and business developments and advise stakeholders on potential commercial implications, recommended actions, and updates to practices or documentation.

- Network and collaborate with key contacts outside the immediate legal function, including senior business stakeholders and outside counsel, to drive timely resolution of complex matters and support tactical business targets.

- Frequently provide guidance to business partners and less experienced team members on complex contracting matters, negotiation approaches, risk considerations, and internal processes.

- Maintain contract records, status tracking, and reporting in applicable systems and support continual improvement of contract administration, review, approval, and knowledge-management practices.

- Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.

- Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.

- Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and i