Sr. Healthcare Contracts Specialist

Vālenz^®^ Health is the platform to simplify healthcare – the destination for employers, payers, providers and members to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. The Valenz mindset and culture of innovation combine to create a distinctly different approach to an inefficient, uninspired health system. With fully integrated solutions, Valenz engages early and often to execute across the entire patient journey – from care navigation and management to payment integrity, plan performance and provider verification. With a 99% client retention rate, we elevate expectations to a new level of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency where smarter, better, faster healthcare is possible. **About This Opportunity:** As the Senior Healthcare Contracts Specialist, you'll lead the drafting, negotiation, and management of complex business agreements while serving as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders. You'll provide contracting expertise that supports business objectives, ensures efficient contract execution, and helps identify and mitigate contractual risk throughout the agreement lifecycle. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver practical, compliant contracting solutions while independently managing commercial contracting matters and escalating issues to in-house Legal counsel as appropriate. You'll apply approved templates, playbooks, and Legal Department guidance to maintain consistency and compliance across agreements. Through sound judgment, exceptional drafting skills, and strong attention to detail, you'll produce high-quality work with minimal supervision while helping the business move forward with confidence **Things You’ll Do Here:** - Independently draft, review, revise, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including client master services agreements, vendor agreements, HIPAA Business Associate Agreements, statements of work, amendments, renewals, data sharing and use agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and other contracts, by preparing high-quality contract language and redlines using approved templates, standard clauses, and negotiation playbooks. - Analyze and negotiate non-standard contract provisions within established Legal Department guidance, independently resolving routine negotiations while escalating novel or higher-risk legal, regulatory, or business issues to in-house counsel as appropriate. - Serve as the primary day-to-day Legal Department contact for assigned contracting matters. - Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Finance, IT, and Compliance teams and executive leadership to facilitate timely contract review and execution. - Provide practical recommendations regarding contractual terms, risk allocation, and negotiation strategies while identifying opportunities to improve contracting workflows, standardization, efficiency, and risk management practices. - Contribute to Legal team’s development and continuous refinement of contract templates, standard clauses, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks. - Support and maintain contract lifecycle processes and systems, ensuring contract records are well-organized, complete, accurate, and maintained in accordance with company policies. - Perform other duties as assigned. *Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.* **What You’ll Bring to the Team:** - Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Paralegal Studies, or a related field. - 7+ years of progressive experience drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing complex commercial contracts. - Extensive experience negotiating contractual terms directly with customers, vendors, business partners, and other counterparties, including the demonstrated ability to independently manage commercial contract negotiations using established templates, playbooks, and contracting standards while exercising sound judgment regarding w…