[Remote] Senior Legal Counsel - Pharmaceutical Contracting
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CVS Health is dedicated to shaping a more connected and compassionate health experience. The Senior Legal Counsel - Pharmaceutical Contracting will provide strategic legal counsel to internal business partners, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations while supporting Retail Trade initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of Retail Trade agreements, including enhanced strategic patient outreach agreements, shelf stock agreements, product purchase agreements, and dispensing data agreements
- Advise internal clients on contract terms, requirements, and applicable healthcare legal/regulatory considerations
- Assess business, economic, and operational impacts of contract positions and regulatory requirements; recommend practical paths forward
- Support ongoing compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Retail Pharmacy, and Privacy colleagues as needed to support Retail Trade and related activities
- Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of Trade Product Development agreements, including patient educational outreach services new product request reviews, and patient educational outreach services agreements
- Advise internal clients on contract terms, requirements, and applicable healthcare legal/regulatory considerations
- Assess business, economic, and operational impacts of contract positions and regulatory requirements; recommend practical paths forward
- Support ongoing compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Retail Pharmacy, and Privacy colleagues as needed to support Retail Trade and related activities
- Follow and continuously improve legal services request intake process and legal guidance tracking
- Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of data services related agreements
- Advise internal clients on contract terms, requirements, and applicable healthcare legal/regulatory considerations
- Assess business, economic, and operational impacts of contract positions and regulatory requirements; recommend practical paths forward
- Support ongoing compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Retail Pharmacy, and Privacy colleagues as needed to support
- Help develop legal services request intake process and legal guidance tracking
- Build and maintain network of relationships across PBM, Corporate Affairs, CVS Healthspire, Aetna, CVS Pharmacy, and CVS Specialty Pharmacy, and other business units to enable delivery of strategic and forward-thinking guidance
- Assist with Trade contracts in other departments as needed and to build breadth of knowledge and skills
Skills
- 7+ years of legal experience with a law firm or in-house with a healthcare company
- Admitted to practice law in at least one state and member in good standing of applicable state bar association(s)
- Juris Doctorate
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience with Retail Trade arrangements
- Intellectual curiosity and adopter of new technology, including AI, in the workplace
- Strong knowledge of healthcare laws and regulations including federal Anti-Kickback statute and False Claims Act
- Experience in aspects of healthcare related to Retail Trade services
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex services agreements, discount agreements, and data agreements in the Trade space
- Ability to collaborate effectively and work as a team player
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, initiative, and drive
- Champion engagement by promoting a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Operates with a keen process/function, data/reporting and project discipline being mindful of audiences and artifacts to convey the most efficient messaging
Benefits
- Eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above
- Award target in the company’s equity award program
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings options
- Wellness programs
- Other resources, based on eligibility
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