Deputy General Counsel

Judi Health•Charlotte, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Deputy General Counsel is a senior legal leader and trusted partner to the General Counsel. The role helps lead Judi Health’s legal function and provides practical, strategic counsel on significant legal, regulatory, operational, and business matters. Working closely with the General Counsel and executive leadership, the Deputy General Counsel serves as a 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 legal services across a growing healthcare organization. This role combines healthcare legal expertise with legal department management, team development, operational execution, and organizational leadership. The Deputy General Counsel develops and executes legal department strategies; manages outside counsel and legal expenditures; implements matter management and contract lifecycle processes; establishes performance metrics; and oversees legal matters across multiple business functions. The position helps build a 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 three-days hybrid and for candidates local to New York City, Denver, or Charlotte. The listed New York, NY salary range is $266,400–$333,000 USD.

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 continuously 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 solutions.
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.
Practical commercial judgment 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 the day-to-day operations and effectiveness of the legal function, 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 consistent processes for legal intake, matter assignment, workload management, contract review, legal research, document management, and executive reporting.
Lead the responsible adoption and optimization of artificial intelligence, legal technology, matter management systems, contract lifecycle management platforms, knowledge management resources, and workflow automation.
Identify technology use cases; establish implementation roadmaps, governance standards, security and confidentiality controls, validation protocols, and human-review requirements; measure results and drive adoption.
Develop and monitor performance indicators and service metrics, including matter volume, turnaround times, contract cycle times, outside counsel expenditures, workload distribution, and internal client satisfaction.
Establish processes for identifying, assessing, escalating, and resolving significant legal issues, ensuring material risks receive appropriate attention and executive visibility.
Develop standardized legal templates, playbooks, guidance materials, and self-service resources while maintaining appropriate oversight and risk controls.
Evaluate the legal department’s structure, processes, and service delivery model as organizational needs change.
Lead, supervise, mentor, and develop attorneys and legal professionals, setting responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability.
Align legal team structure, responsibilities, and subject-matter expertise with business needs, legal risk exposure, 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, strong communication, responsiveness, teamwork, continuous improvement, and proactive stakeholder engagement.
Balance workloads and deploy internal and external resources effectively; provide direction and oversight to outside counsel and other legal service providers.
Evaluate the balance between internal legal resources, outside counsel, specialized consultants, and technology-enabled solutions.
Monitor legal expenditures against budget, identify cost drivers, and improve financial predictability and resource utilization.
Establish preferred counsel relationships and evaluate external providers based on expertise, responsiveness, quality, efficiency, and business value.
Report department performance, budget variances, resource requirements, and operational improvement opportunities to the General Counsel.
Establish frameworks for assessing legal risk, prioritizing matters, determining escalation requirements, and documenting significant legal decisions.
Maintain visibility into material litigation, regulatory inquiries, investigations, contractual disputes, transactions, and other significant legal matters.
Coordinate cross-functional legal support for complex matters, ensuring clear ownership, collaboration, and timely resolution.
Report significant legal exposures, emerging trends, mitigation strategies, and resource implications to the General Counsel and executive leadership.
Partner with compliance, risk management, finance, human resources, privacy, information security, and operational teams to clarify responsibilities and avoid gaps or duplication in oversight.
Maintain standards for legal work product, confidentiality, privilege, records retention, and professional obligations; support policies, controls, and governance practices for enterprise legal risk management.
Provide legal oversight and strategic guidance on commercial contracting, pharmacy benefit management, pharmacy services, pharmaceutical manufacturer relationships, pharmacy network arrangements, 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 the business.
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 for attorneys and business stakeholders.
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, establish 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 legal department performance, material risks, emerging issues, and required decisions.
Represent the legal function in strategic planning and operational discussions, aligning legal resources with key business priorities.
Promote a responsive, accountable, commercially minded, and operationally disciplined legal department.
Adhere to the Judi Health Code of Conduct, including reporting non-compliance.