Corporate Contracts Counsel

Lincare; Clearwater (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincare seeks a Corporate Contracts Counsel to oversee a broad portfolio of contracts and corporate transactions. You will draft, review, and negotiate agreements, support business initiatives, and manage risk while coordinating with sales, procurement, operations, and product teams.

You will provide legal guidance, update stakeholders on developments, and contribute to playbooks and templates to streamline contracting across the organization.

Qualifications

• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, leases, and other transaction documents.
• Advises business teams on contract terms, risks, and solutions.
• Manages contract lifecycle from intake to execution using contract tools.
• Identifies and mitigates legal risks in contracts and transactions.
• Creates templates and playbooks to streamline contracting processes.

Responsibilities

• Drafts and negotiates commercial contracts including sales, vendor, NDAs, service agreements, and leases.
• Provides legal guidance to sales, procurement, operations, and product teams.
• Maintains updated contract templates and playbooks for common agreements.
• Collaborates with in-house teams (privacy, employment, compliance) on legal matters.
• Performs legal research and communicates developments to stakeholders.

Skills

Drafting contracts

Negotiation

Contract management

Legal advisory

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

The Corporate Contracts Counsel is responsible for managing a segment of the Company's contract and corporate transaction matters. Under the direction of the SVP Legal this attorney handles legal review and negotiation of the Company's contracts portfolio while promoting business partners' understanding of legal issues related to corporate risk and contracts.

Job Functions

• Drafts and manages contracts, leases, and other transaction documents by writing, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, supporting corporate business initiatives, and maintaining professional rapport with opposing counsel and parties
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates a high volume of commercial contracts
  • sales agreements, vendor/supplier contracts, NDAs, service agreements, leases, partnership agreements, etc.
• Advises business teams (sales, procurement, operations, product) on contract terms, risks, and business-friendly solutions
• Manages the contract lifecycle - from intake to execution - through utilization of the Company's contract management tools
• Identifies and mitigates legal risks in contracts and transactions
• Creates and maintains playbooks/templates for common contracts to streamline processes
• Collaborates with other in-house teams (sales, operations, privacy, employment, compliance)
• Provides legal advice to business teams by conducting legal research
  • keeping stakeholders updated on developments in their legal area of concern
  • providing explanations of legal concepts and actions
• Updates legal knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
  • reading professional publications
  • maintaining personal networks
  • participating in professional organizations
• Contributes to organization's success by welcoming related, different, and new requests and other duties as assigned by SVP, and helping others accomplish job results