Managing Counsel: Contracts

We’re hunting for a Managing Counsel: Contracts, someone who’s ready to be part of the best ranked children’s hospital in Texas, and among the best in the nation. In this position, you will manage the activities and personnel of the Contracts Administration function in the TCHP or TCH Legal Operations Departments and provides legal oversight of the work conducted on the team  Provides planning, direction, management and coordination of contracting personnel and resources in support of Texas Children's mission and vision.  Provides assistance to the  leadership. Management in meeting operational and fiscal objectives through effectively contracting for goods and services.  Manages the activities of the Department, ensuring appropriate policies and procedures are in place and resources are available to successfully support the contracting process.  A portion of the Manager's time will be spent drafting and negotiating high profile and/or high-dollar contracts.  In this role, this individual will coordinate among necessary institutional departments, draft and oversee contract review and approval processes for selected business arrangements.  Within the Health Plan, this individual will be responsible for the subcontractor filings and corporate filings for TCHP with various state agencies. Provides guidance regarding Texas regulations on corporate law and matters related to governance.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides legal guidance and oversight of contracts team to ensure effectiveness of the Contract Administration Department
• Answers customer questions regarding the Texas Children’s contracts process in a professional, courteous and timely manner. Maintains positive working relationships with customers and vendors.
• Drafts/negotiates complex or high-risk contracts. Reviews, negotiates, drafts, and facilitates award for assigned contracts and amendments.
• Within TCHP, responsible for TCHP’s corporate law requirements, including providing guidance.
• Performs other duties assigned by leadership
• Strives to ensure compliance with applicable subcontractor requirements for a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (within TCHP) or strives to achieve the goal of accreditation with commendation (within the Hospital)

Skills & Requirements

• Required Juris Doctor Degree (JD)
• License to practice law in the State of Texas is required. If candidate does not have a Texas law license, must have and maintain a license to practice law in another state and get licensed in the State of Texas within 18 months of hire.
• Required 1 years attorney experience with contracts
• Preferred Qualifications:
•  5- 10 years’ experience as a licensed Attorney with a focus on contracts

About Texas Children’s

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. 

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 Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.