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Banner Health · 1 week ago
Executive Director, Legal Services
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Executive
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Provides leadership in development, implementation, and oversight of system-wide/regional standards, programs, and/or systems for the delivery of legal services for assigned areas of responsibility in order to achieve desired and integrated strategic business initiatives, objectives, and outcomes in compliance with legal parameters.
Directs, supervises, and evaluates the work of legal department staff, including attorneys. Holds legal department staff accountable for achieving performance and productivity targets within budgetary parameters.
Builds and supports effective collegial relationships within the Legal Department and also with applicable internal clients and external organizations and stakeholders, ensuring and fostering a high level of collaboration.
Oversees the development, implementation, and consistent application of effective organizational policies and practices. Participates in maintaining an effective internal control environment within the legal department.
Monitors legal developments in healthcare or general corporate environment to identify emerging risks to the company and new competencies to be developed within the legal department.
Helps provide oversight of development, performance and quality of contract management and review operations of the legal department.
Participates in the evaluation, selection and oversight of outside counsel, monitors performance of outside counsel, participates in the management and maintenance of relationships with outside counsel, and provides specific direct oversight of outside counsel and coordination with internal parties for major litigation and transactional matters as assigned by the General Counsel.
Performs direct legal services in areas of assigned responsibility, including representation of Banner in negotiations, participates in document preparation and review, coordination with outside counsel and internal parties, and completion of transactions and other matters.
This position requires negotiation skills. Customers of this position are both internal and external, including leadership, staff, regulatory agencies, outside counsel, internal and external partners and the community.
Qualification
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Required
JD from an American Bar Association accredited school; admission to a state bar association (admission to the State Bar of Arizona is a post-employment requirement).
At least 10 years of experience in the practice of law.
Knowledge of operations of in-house legal departments or law firms, and management and supervisory responsibility, as normally obtained through progressively responsible managerial experience in in-house legal department, law firm operations, or both.
Strong legal skills and experience, including first chair responsibility for significant matters.
Strong financial and business acumen.
Broad general knowledge of wide variety of substantive areas of the law likely to be encountered by a large and diverse integrated healthcare organization, including corporate governance, labor and employment, general contracting, antitrust, intellectual property, joint ventures, information technology and IT security, litigation procedures, and overall regulatory environment.
Knowledge of budgeting and forecasting methodologies.
Skilled in effectively engaging management level staff, employees, and stakeholders in order to build working relationships, achieve strategic and organizational goals; managing problems and situations where uncertainty is inherent; constructing new and innovative solutions for complex and varying problems and situations while approaching issues/problems by considering the larger perspective or context; mentoring and coaching management level staff (including attorneys) by providing open and honest feedback that results in enhanced performance outcomes; effectively allocating resources in order to accomplish organizational goals; quickly assessing and assimilating organizational and industry dynamics and overall healthcare legal environment in order to make appropriate decisions and act quickly on new initiatives.
Leadership style and characteristics necessary to effectively perform in this role include: systems-thinker; innovative; critical thinker; strong analytical abilities; business acumen; collaborator; ability to work with teams; good listening; nonvolatile; values multiple disciplines; effective public speaker; ability to present legal issues effectively to a wide range of audiences with varying levels of sophistication; and passionate about continuous improvement and providing high quality service to our customers.
Preferred
Significant experience with insurance plans and networks, and complex transactions.
Specialized knowledge of health law, including Stark, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, medical staff relationships, managed care contracting, provider networks and value-based care; specialized knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid.
Transactional experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and development of complex, long-term contractual relationships.
Management responsibility for in-house law department operations, law firm (or law firm department) operations, or both.
Benefits
Health
Financial
Security benefits
Management Incentive Program
Company
Banner Health
Banner Health operates as a nonprofit health care system in the United States. The company offers hospital care, home care, hospice care,
10,001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (7)
2022 (12)
2021 (22)
2020 (6)
Funding
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