General Counsel Corporate Law

Froedtert•Menomonee Falls, WI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Froedtert ThedaCare Health, we are seeking an accomplished legal executive to serve as our Associate Vice President, Corporate Law. This is a unique opportunity to combine sophisticated healthcare legal practice, executive leadership, and mission-driven impact within one of the Midwest's leading nonprofit integrated health systems. This role will help shape the legal strategy supporting a complex, multi-entity healthcare organization dedicated to serving patients, providers, team members, and communities across Wisconsin. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, the AVP, Corporate Law leads the Corporate Law pillar of the Office of General Counsel (OGC) and serves as a key member of the OGC leadership team. The AVP provides strategic legal counsel on complex business, governance, transactional, contracting, real estate, and operational matters while partnering closely with executive leaders, boards, committees, operational teams, and key stakeholders to advance organizational priorities. As a trusted advisor to senior leadership, this role offers significant visibility and influence in system decision-making, organizational growth, and business transformation initiatives. The AVP plays an integral role in supporting mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, investments, governance matters, and other initiatives that shape the future direction of Froedtert ThedaCare Health. The AVP is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team of attorneys, paralegals, contract professionals, legal operations leaders, and support staff while driving excellence in legal service delivery, operational effectiveness, and organizational performance across the health system. This leader will help strengthen a system legal function that supports a large, integrated nonprofit health system spanning multiple hospitals, physician organizations, joint ventures, affiliated entities, and care delivery settings throughout Wisconsin.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
Licensed to practice law and in good standing in Wisconsin, or eligible for admission upon hire.
Minimum eight (8) to ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in corporate, transactional, healthcare, or business law.
Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience managing attorneys, legal professionals, and/or teams.
Extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex commercial agreements, healthcare transactions, and strategic business initiatives.
Demonstrated success mentoring legal professionals, advising senior executives, and leading complex organizational initiatives.
Strong business acumen with the ability to balance legal risk, operational priorities, and organizational goals.
Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and executive leadership skills.
Candidates will be required to reside and work within Froedtert ThedaCare Health's Wisconsin expansive service area.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting integrated health systems, healthcare organizations, academic medical centers, or similarly complex organizations.
Experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, managed care arrangements, value-based contracting, and healthcare business transactions.
Experience supporting nonprofit or tax-exempt organizations, governance structures, and board-level matters.
Proven ability to lead change, improve operational performance, and develop high-performing teams.
Demonstrated success implementing legal operations, process improvement, technology, and service delivery innovations.

Responsibilities

Lead the Corporate Law function across the health system, providing practical, business-focused legal guidance on strategic and operational initiatives.
Advise executive leadership on complex corporate transactions, partnerships, affiliations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, syndications, investments, and other growth initiatives.
Oversee legal support for commercial contracting, supply chain arrangements, technology agreements, physician and business relationships, managed care agreements, payer relationships, value-based contracting initiatives, real estate transactions, and affiliated entities.
Provide counsel regarding governance structures, board and committee matters, subsidiary organizations, nonprofit and tax-exempt organization matters, and enterprise decision-making frameworks.
Advise leaders on contract strategy, risk allocation, dispute avoidance, and operational decision-making to support organizational objectives.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of attorneys, paralegals, contract professionals, operations leaders, and legal support staff.
Build strong partnerships with executive leadership, compliance, finance, human resources, information technology, physician leadership, and operational stakeholders to support organizational objectives and effective governance.
Drive operational excellence within the Office of General Counsel through legal operations optimization, technology advancement, process improvement, knowledge management, workflow standardization, legal policy governance, performance measurement, and service delivery innovation.
Establish enterprise-wide standards for contracting, corporate legal services, governance practices, workflow management, policy administration, templates, and knowledge resources.
Manage legal resources, departmental budgets, operational priorities, performance metrics, outside counsel relationships, and legal service providers.
Partner with leaders across the health system to identify legal risk, develop practical solutions, and support strategic decision-making.
Lead enterprise education and training initiatives related to contracting, governance, compliance, and corporate legal matters.
Foster a collaborative, service-oriented culture focused on excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.