Senior Counsel - Indirect Procurement

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today! Job Details This is a position within the Legal Department that is held by a lawyer with strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters related to sourcing indirect goods and services. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: The lawyer in this role will work with key stakeholders of the Indirect Sourcing team and be responsible for the delivery of effective legal services to his or her clients. Required to review and negotiate a high volume of commercial vendor agreements. Contracts include MSAs, Statements of Work, License, Equipment and Consulting Agreements. In this role, the lawyer is required to be adept at handling legal projects, matters, and issues and should demonstrate technical legal skills and expertise sufficient to undertake customary and/or recurring projects, matters, and issues with minimal supervision in most instances. The lawyer in this role should have the capability to demonstrate project management skills because the Senior Counsel role often requires the lawyer in this role to take on mixed legal and business responsibility for, and project management of, contracts or other matters that the client group wants to pursue. The Senior Counsel should be able to represent Cencora and his or her relevant client groups on the development, negotiation and finalization of new indirect supplier contracts and maintain existing contracts. The Senior Counsel may be required in these situations to have an integral role in both legal and business negotiations. The Senior Counsel should demonstrate decision-making capability and should be proficient in being able to make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations to his or her clients. The Senior Counsel is expected to solve a range of straightforward problems, analyze possible solutions and assess each using standard procedures. The lawyer in this role should be able to juggle multiple matters and effectively multi-task and prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely and efficient matter. The Senior Counsel is expected to effectively cope with change and shift gears comfortably. The lawyer in this role is expected to seek out and accept developmental opportunities. Experience and Educational Requirements: Must have a minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in contracts and commercial law. Must have demonstrated ability to assist with the full contract lifecycle for sourcing agreements, including intake, issue-spotting, negotiation support, redlining, stakeholder alignment, and post-execution contract maintenance. The lawyer in this role should have sufficient expertise in those areas of legal practice that are necessary to provide legal counsel effectively to his or her clients. Law Degree - must be a graduate of an accredited law school and admitted into the state bar. The lawyer in this role is comparable to a senior associate or counsel in a law firm and is a lawyer who can do sophisticated work as an individual contributor (with minimal guidance and oversight from his or her manager in most instances) and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals to do the work. Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements: Significant knowledge of indirect sourcing concepts, practices, contracts and legal procedures. Willingness to work with fast-paced procurement and business teams on reviews of new sourcing arrangements, as well as updates to existing arrangements St…

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