Associate Senior Counsel-Contracts

Chicago, IL
December 15, 2024
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Job Description

Company Description

PG Forsta is the leading experience measurement, data analytics, and insights provider for complex industries—a status we earned over decades of deep partnership with clients to help them understand and meet the needs of their key stakeholders. Our earliest roots are in U.S. healthcare –perhaps the most complex of all industries. Today we serve clients around the globe in every industry to help them improve the Human Experiences at the heart of their business. We serve our clients through an unparalleled offering that combines technology, data, and expertise to enable them to pinpoint and prioritize opportunities, accelerate improvement efforts and build lifetime loyalty among their customers and employees.

Like all great companies, our success is a function of our people and our culture. Our employees have world-class talent, a collaborative work ethic, and a passion for the work that have earned us trusted advisor status among the world’s most recognized brands. As a member of the team, you will help us create value for our clients, you will make us better through your contribution to the work and your voice in the process. Ours is a path of learning and continuous improvement; team efforts chart the course for corporate success.
Mission
We empower organizations to deliver the best experiences. With industry expertise and technology, we turn data into insights that drive innovation and action. 

We partner clients to gather the voice of consumers and the workforce to gain insights that address unmet needs. Through the use of integrated data, advanced analytics and strategic advisory services, we are helping clients transform their organizations to deliver high quality services and lifetime loyalty. 

Values

  • Energize the customer relationship: Our clients are our partners. We make their goals our own, working side by side to turn challenges into solutions. 
  • Success starts with me: Personal ownership fuels collective success. We each play our part and empower our teammates to do the same. 
  • Commit to learning: Every win is a springboard. Every hurdle is a lesson. We use each experience as an opportunity to grow. 
  • Dare to innovate: We challenge the status quo with creativity and innovation as our true north. 
  • Better together: We check our egos at the door. We work together, so we win together. 

Job Description

This associate will act as advisor on legal issues, particularly relating to the review of legal agreements with clients and vendors (frequently in the technology field), with significant emphasis on relationships with strategic partners and advising and communicating with the Press Ganey business leaders who own those relationships. Responsibilities include reviewing, drafting, and the negotiation of contracts and advising internal clients throughout the organization, including those at the executive level, regarding contract-related and other legal issues, particularly focusing on strategic transactions and collaborations.

Duties and Responsibilities 

  • Review, draft, and negotiate vendor and client contracts, as well as agreements relating to business development and corporate strategy. Includes data use and licensing agreements, consulting agreements, collaboration agreements, agreements related to mergers and acquisitions, and business associate agreements. Agreements frequently involve technology, intellectual property and data privacy issues.

  • Provide legal guidance on contract interpretation and other legal issues.

  • Work closely and proactively with other departments to gather information on business issues to ensure that agreements accurately describe business capabilities and address the legal risks associated with the company’s business relationships. 

  • Use business and legal judgment and experience to provide advice in terms of an appropriate level of risk considering the business needs of each situation. 

  • Supervise and consult with outside counsel. 

To work #bettertogether, we operate with a hybrid working model. For those near a hub location, we gather in our office locations three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). For the remaining days, we work from home.

Qualifications

  • Requires J.D., admission to the bar, and 5 or more years of legal experience, preferably including a combination of law firm and in-house contracts experience in the healthcare industry.

  • Demonstrable experience and skill with a broad range of commercial transactions and related legal issues, at approximately the level of sophistication of a senior associate or junior law firm partner who is skilled at interacting with client executives.

  • Ability to research, analyze, interpret, and apply government regulations, guidelines, and requirements.

  • Excellent business judgment, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills, including those required to communicate effectively with executives and opposing counsel at the general counsel or partner level. Conscientious, hard-working, and highly attentive to detail and deadlines. 

  • Proven ability to work, often independently, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to adapt quickly and skillfully to changing priorities. Requires strong organizational skills and superior aptitude for prioritizing many tasks contemporaneously, and the capability to manage projects and people in order to fulfill the company’s mission and objectives.

  • Working knowledge of HIPAA and privacy related matters is highly preferred.

To work #bettertogether, we operate with a hybrid working model. For those near a hub location, we gather in our office locations three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). For the remaining days, we work from home.

Additional Information

Press Ganey Associates LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and well committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Notice – Press Ganey will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 

The expected base salary for this position is $127,000.00-$170,000.00 per year. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus or commission tied to achieved results.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Our privacy policy can be found here: https://www.pressganey.com/legal-privacy/