Deputy General Counsel

Judi Health•Denver, CO

4d•$266,400 - $333,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Deputy General Counsel is a senior legal leader and trusted partner to the General Counsel, helping lead Judi Health’s legal function and providing practical, strategic counsel on significant legal, regulatory, operational, and business matters. Working with the General Counsel and executive leadership, this person serves as a principal thought partner and delegate, leads legal team members, allocates resources, establishes operating standards, and implements technology-enabled processes to deliver timely, high-quality, commercially focused, scalable legal services across a growing healthcare organization. The role combines sophisticated legal judgment and healthcare industry expertise with legal department management, team development, operational execution, and organizational leadership. Responsibilities include developing and executing department strategies, managing outside counsel and legal expenditures, implementing matter management and contract lifecycle processes, establishing performance metrics, and ensuring appropriate oversight of legal matters across business functions. The Deputy General Counsel will help build and manage a high-performing, scalable legal organization that anticipates business needs, proactively manages risk, develops talent, and serves as an integrated strategic partner to the business. The position is hybrid, with three days in person and local presence in New York City, Denver, or Charlotte.

Requirements

Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
12 or more years of progressive legal experience.
Significant in-house legal experience and demonstrated responsibility for leading attorneys, legal professionals, or major legal functions.
Experience managing legal department operations, resource allocation, budgets, outside counsel, matter management, and legal service delivery.
Experience establishing legal processes, operational standards, performance metrics, and technology-enabled workflows.
Substantial experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, pharmaceutical services, health plans, or another highly regulated industry.
Demonstrated ability to advise executive leadership while managing competing priorities, complex legal matters, and demanding business requirements.
Ability to design, implement, and improve the systems, workflows, governance structures, and operating procedures of an in-house legal department.
Proven ability to lead, motivate, develop, and retain a high-performing legal team while establishing accountability and professional standards.
Experience with legal budgeting, forecasting, outside counsel economics, staffing models, and resource optimization.
Ability to establish meaningful operational metrics, analyze performance trends, and translate results into measurable improvements.
Familiarity with matter management, contract lifecycle management, knowledge management, workflow automation, and emerging legal technology.
Ability to implement consistent risk assessment, escalation, documentation, and reporting practices.
Ability to communicate complex legal, financial, operational, and regulatory issues clearly to senior leaders.
Ability to provide practical, timely legal guidance that advances business objectives while appropriately managing risk.
Ability to build scalable legal capabilities, lead change, and improve collaboration across a growing enterprise.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day legal department operations, including coverage, resource allocation, matter prioritization, and delivery of legal services.
Develop and implement legal department operating plans, workflows, service standards, escalation protocols, and decision-making frameworks aligned with corporate priorities.
Establish processes for legal intake, matter assignment, workload management, contract review, legal research, document management, and executive reporting.
Lead adoption and optimization of artificial intelligence and legal technology, including matter management, contract lifecycle management, knowledge management, and workflow automation; establish governance, security, validation, and human-review controls and measure results.
Develop and monitor performance indicators and service metrics, including matter volume, turnaround and contract cycle times, outside counsel spending, workload distribution, and internal client satisfaction.
Establish processes for identifying, assessing, escalating, and resolving significant legal issues.
Develop standardized legal templates, playbooks, guidance materials, and self-service resources.
Evaluate and adapt the legal department’s structure, processes, and service delivery model to support organizational growth and changing business needs.
Lead, supervise, mentor, and develop attorneys and legal professionals; establish responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability.
Align legal team structure and expertise with business needs, legal risks, and strategic priorities; recruit, develop, and retain legal talent.
Establish performance management, coaching, professional development, and succession planning practices.
Promote consistent legal analysis, sound judgment, practical problem-solving, and strong written and oral communication.
Foster responsiveness, teamwork, continuous improvement, and proactive engagement with business stakeholders.
Balance workloads and deploy internal and external resources effectively, giving complex or high-risk matters appropriate senior-level attention.
Develop organizational depth through knowledge sharing, cross-training, succession readiness, and continuity of legal support.
Direct and oversee outside counsel and other legal service providers, ensuring alignment with legal strategy, appropriate work allocation, and performance accountability.
Evaluate the balance among internal legal resources, outside counsel, specialized consultants, and technology-enabled solutions.
Monitor legal spending against budget, identify cost drivers, and improve financial predictability and resource utilization.
Establish preferred counsel relationships and evaluate providers based on expertise, responsiveness, quality, efficiency, and business value.
Report to the General Counsel on department performance, budget variances, resource requirements, and operational improvement opportunities.
Establish frameworks for legal risk assessment, matter prioritization, escalation, and documentation of significant legal decisions.
Maintain visibility into material litigation, regulatory inquiries, investigations, contractual disputes, transactions, and other significant matters.
Coordinate cross-functional legal support for complex matters and develop reporting on significant exposures, trends, mitigation strategies, and resource implications.
Partner with compliance, risk management, finance, human resources, privacy, information security, and operational teams to clarify oversight responsibilities.
Maintain standards for legal work product, confidentiality, privilege, records retention, and professional obligations.
Support policies, controls, and governance practices that promote consistent enterprise legal risk management.
Provide legal oversight and strategic guidance on commercial contracting, pharmacy benefit management, pharmacy services, pharmaceutical manufacturer relationships, pharmacy networks, and strategic partnerships.
Advise on federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, including Medicare Part D, Medicaid, pharmacy reimbursement, drug pricing, healthcare fraud and abuse, and other requirements relevant to Judi Health.
Lead or coordinate legal support for material commercial negotiations, new business initiatives, strategic transactions, and complex regulatory matters.
Establish contracting standards, risk-allocation principles, approval authorities, and escalation procedures.
Translate evolving legal and regulatory requirements into practical guidance, operating procedures, and training.
Advise the General Counsel and executive leadership on legal department strategy, operational priorities, resource needs, and significant enterprise risks.
Partner with business leaders to anticipate legal needs, set service expectations, and integrate legal considerations into business planning and execution.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve decision-making, streamline processes, clarify accountability, and strengthen organizational effectiveness.
Develop communication and reporting practices that help leadership understand department performance, material risks, emerging issues, and required decisions.
Represent the legal function in strategic planning and operational discussions, aligning legal resources with business priorities.
Promote a legal department culture that is responsive, accountable, commercially minded, and operationally disciplined.
Adhere to the Judi Health Code of Conduct, including reporting non-compliance.