Corporate Counsel

What you'll do

In a few words...

Abarca is igniting a revolution in healthcare. We built our company on the belief that with smarter technology we are redefining pharmacy benefits, but this is just the beginning...

The Legal & Compliance department ensures our business operations and processes are compliant with all state and federal requirements. They keep Abarca updated on all regulatory and legislative developments to mitigate the impact on the services we offer! They're also the team we go to for channeling services from our external legal counsel and working on matters related to tax, audits, managing codes of conduct as well as corporate, and healthcare law.

The Corporate Counsel is responsible for reviewing contract drafting and business documentation received or prepared by the company (such as pharmaceutical industry requests for proposals and/or responses to RFPs). Additionally, support regulatory compliance research and analysis and other consults from business units and clients.

The fundamentals for the job...

• Draft and review agreements, contracts and other business documents of vendors, business partners, and clients, such as but not limited to agreements on rebates, clients, vendor management, pharmacy providers, business associate, and non-disclosure.
• Support Abarca's contractual negotiation processes and act as a liaison between Abarca and contracting parties during these processes.
• Assess consultations and inquiries and provide legal advice to Abarcan stakeholders on corporate matters such as corporate governance, intellectual property, employment and talent strategy, marketing, business development, and client requests, among others.
• Prepare training materials and provide training on legal matters.
• Draft and develop Legal policies and procedures to ensure sound contracting processes.
• Provide legal support to the Business Development team for all work related to the Company's growth strategies (including Requests for Proposals ("RFP") and other pre-contracting documents).
• Ensure contracts are executed and stored in Abarca's systems.
• Stay current with regulatory and industry requirements to ensure contracts comply with the latest guidelines and regulations.
• Maintain repository of applicable certifications to Abarca.
• Support other functions related to the Legal Department as needed.

What we expect of you

The bold requirements...

• Juris Doctor Degree. Admitted to the Puerto Rico Bar (Puerto Rico Supreme Court).
• 3+ years of work-related experience in legal with a strong emphasis on business, commercial contracts, and complex transactions.
• Experience researching and utilizing legal research systems (Microjuris, Lexisnexis, Westlaw, etc.).
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, bilingual fluency in Spanish and English is required.
• We are proud to offer a flexible hybrid work model which will require certain on-site workdays (Puerto Rico Location Only)

Nice to haves...

• Healthcare experience is preferred.

Physical requirements...

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization's facilities.
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

The above description is not intended to limit the scope of the job or to exclude other duties not mentioned. It is not a final set of specifications for the position. It's simply meant to give readers an idea of what the role entails.

Abarca Health LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. "Applicant must be a United States' citizen. Abarca Health LLC does not sponsor employment visas at this time"

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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