Counsel, Commercial/Product

Merative

5d•$133,710 - $200,564•Remote

About The Position

At Truven by Merative, we turn complex healthcare data into clear, actionable insights. Our solutions help organizations improve population health, control costs, and strengthen program performance. Our core products include: • Health Insights and Springbuk: Benefit program analytics and member engagement tools • MarketScan: The industry’s largest, longest‑running U.S. claims database for research • Flexible Analytics: Solutions to enhance population health and program performance At Truven, you’ll join a team transforming healthcare through data, innovation, and real‑world impact—working alongside experts committed to improving health outcomes nationwide. Ready to transform healthcare with powerful data, trusted insights, and real-world results? At Truven, we’re not just working with healthcare data, we’re changing how the industry uses it to improve lives. We’re seeking Counsel to provide proactive, practical and strategic legal advice to support a high-performing, growth-oriented business, driving sales and innovation using emerging technologies, and working in a regulated environment. You’ll work closely with the Legal team, senior business leaders and key stakeholders across the organization to provide counsel on legal issues and risk mitigation guidance while driving impact across transactions, products and compliance. Your primary focus will be commercial transactions, negotiating and structuring real world data, technology and strategic alliance agreements. You will also have meaningful exposure to a wide variety of privacy and regulatory compliance issues and the product development cycle. Your expertise will help turn healthcare data into clear, actionable strategies that drive better outcomes and smarter decisions. You’ll have a direct hand in work that impacts real people, every day. If you’re excited about meaningful work, energized by big challenges, and comfortable rolling up your sleeves with a team that values rigor, integrity, and impact—we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and qualified to practice law in house in the state where you live/work (or ability to obtain promptly).
3+ years of relevant experience (law firm and/or in-house) supporting commercial, product, technology, and/or regulated-industry work.
Strong drafting and negotiation skills with a track record of moving deals forward and closing complex agreements.
A practical, business-first mindset: you can spot risk, explain it clearly, and propose options that keep teams shipping.
Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with multiple stakeholders, shifting priorities, and tight deadlines—without losing attention to detail.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills; you collaborate well with Sales, Product, Engineering/Security, and Operations.
Working knowledge of data privacy concepts and the ability to support privacy-forward contracting (e.g., DPAs, BAAs, data use terms).
Experience in health tech, data, SaaS, analytics, or other regulated technology environments.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to government customers, public sector procurement, and/or flow-down requirements is a plus.

Responsibilities

Draft, negotiate, and manage a wide range of commercial and government agreements (enterprise SaaS and data contracts, business associate agreements, data processing agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor contracts, and more).
Negotiate directly with large enterprise customers, government customers and strategic partners, balancing speed-to-close with thoughtful risk mitigation.
Learn and understand Truven’s products, business model, strategy, culture, etc. to develop a deep understanding of the business and support its goals by providing practical and actionable legal advice on privacy, product, compliance and enforcement matters as they arise.
Build strong business relationships with leadership, internal stakeholders, and external parties to advance business and legal interests and to collaborate on the development of new products, technologies and markets.
Assist in building smarter process to help scale contracting and drive compliance.
Work with existing contract management systems and contract processes and identify, implement and support improvements.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as needed, requested, and/or assigned.