Commercial Counsel

WhiteCap Search; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCap Search is seeking a Counsel (Practice Operations) to support senior legal team in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial and healthcare-related contracts for the corporate team and the network of managed physician practices. This role is hybrid with travel as needed.

You will deliver practical legal guidance to business partners, manage multiple complex contracts, escalate issues when necessary, and collaborate with internal teams and outside counsel to protect the company’s

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
• Healthcare industry experience.
• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• Member of a state or DC bar.
• Significant experience in drafting and negotiating general commercial contracts.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate, and close commercial contracts across vendor product and services agreements, employment agreements, and healthcare-related documents within the network as assigned by the legal team.
• Provide rapid, practical, business-oriented legal and commercial guidance directly to businesspersons.
• Negotiate pricing, deliverables, services scope, warranty, and other commercial terms.
• Interpret and explain contract terms to corporate stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate complex issues to senior members of the legal team as needed.
• Collaborate with and support management in higher-level matters.
• Report to the Senior Counsel-Healthcare and Operations.
• Work with outside counsel on matters requiring discrete expertise when requested.
• Manage assigned projects to completion.
• Support the mission of improving the lives of everyone living with cancer.

Skills

Legal experience

Healthcare industry experience

Contract drafting

Bar admission

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Juris Doctorate (JD)

Job description

Counsel (Practice Operations) will assist senior legal team members in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial and healthcare-related contracts for the corporate team and the network of managed physician practices. Counsel (Practice Operations) will support the legal team in protecting the business' legal interests, maintaining operations within the scope established by law, and will provide hands‑on counsel to management and practice staff. This role is hybrid with ability to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

Assist the senior legal team by reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and closing commercial contracts, including without limitation, vendor product and services agreements, employment agreements, and other documents, including healthcare‑related agreements, across the network as assigned by the legal team.

• Support the legal team in providing rapid, practical, business-oriented legal and commercial contract guidance directly to businesspersons.
• Support businesspersons in negotiating pricing, deliverables, services scope, warranty, and other commercial terms.
• Interpret and explain contract terms and conditions to corporate stakeholders.
• Apply innovative problem‑solving skills and practical business judgment to maximize revenues, minimize risk, and foster long‑term clinical and business partner relationships.
• Identify complex issues requiring escalation to senior members of the legal team.
• Assist more senior counsel and management in higher level matters, as needed.
• Report to the Senior Counsel-Healthcare and Operations.
• Collaborate with and facilitate cross‑team decision‑making among internal teams.
• Work with outside counsel on matters requiring discrete expertise when requested.
• Manage assigned projects to completion.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned to help drive our mission of improving the lives of everyone living with cancer.

Required Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
• Healthcare industry experience.
• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• Member of a state or DC bar.
• Significant experience in drafting and negotiating general commercial contracts.

Essential Competencies:

• Attendance is an essential job function.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated success working in a high-performing, results-driven environment.
• Strong work ethic and proven ability to draft and close commercial agreements with minimal support from senior staff.
• Attention to detail and superior organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to think and decide quickly, and to communicate legal issues and solutions clearly and concisely.
• Highest standards of ethics, professional integrity, and discretion.
• Self-starter with the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to effectively and timely manage workflow, including multiple complex projects in a proactive and highly responsive manner.
• High degree of cultural and emotional intelligence, and demonstrated aptitude for resilience, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing circumstances and dynamics.
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration and the value of a team mindset.

Disclosure: The hourly rates and/or salaries listed may or may not reflect total compensation packages including bonus and fringe benefits, etc., nor are the advertisement(s) posted a guarantee of a certain compensation package for a position or bona fide offer of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.