Medical-Legal Consultant

4 weeks ago


Toronto ON, Canada Achievers Full time

Designed specifically to meet the needs of today’s workforce, it empowers employees to recognize each other in real time and aligns them to the values and goals of the company. With more than 3 million users, the Employee Experience Platform inspires brilliant performance in 170 countries. Achievers is currently seeking a legal counsel to add to its current team of legal professionals. The successful candidate will engage in a variety of commercial transactional matters in support of Achievers’ core business that provides a cloud-based employee recognition and rewards solution with an active listening interface to accelerate employee engagement. This position is a hybrid role (in-office partial days of the week) based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where Achievers is headquartered, however we are open to considering remote candidates (preference is for someone to be in Toronto).
This position requires a self-motivated, business-minded, and confident corporate-commercial lawyer with excellent interpersonal skills, an ability to manage changing priorities and a broad range of legal requests, combined with a desire to improve efficiency in the legal process. In this role, you will support the North American business units as they endeavor to innovate, grow and meet and exceed their own business targets. The successful candidate will have primary responsibilities for the legal needs of the Achievers marketplace team, as well as provide support in the negotiation of SaaS subscription agreements with our customers, including advising on privacy matters (ideally with privacy certification). The Legal Counsel will also effectively negotiate agreements related to data protection and security, procurement, inbound software and services providers, partnerships, resellers, marketing and advertising, as well as supporting the sales team in responding to RFPs/RFIs. As a part of the Achievers legal team, be assured that the work is fast-paced, challenging, varied and ever evolving.
Drafting and negotiating a broad range of standard and non-standard commercial agreements related to the Achievers marketplace, SaaS subscription services and other technology and vendor agreements.
Creating and revising other legal documentation, policies, guidelines and standard forms.
Researching and staying abreast of changes to relevant law and regulations, including privacy and data protection requirements, and ensuring compliance.
Work in real-time through regular interaction with internal and external clients regarding legal and regulatory requirements, and overall enterprise risk management.
Demonstrated track record of successfully managing and negotiating high volume of complex contracts.
Comfortable interacting at all levels within the company (e.g. senior management, engineering, information security, finance, tax, human resources and sales.)
The ability to both work collaboratively within the legal and broader teams and independently on an individual basis with limited oversight.
B. degree with outstanding academic credentials.
Working knowledge of privacy law and experience negotiating DPAs .
Privacy certification in one or more jurisdictions (definite asset).
Minimum of 4+ years of relevant legal experience, with a law firm or in-house.
Achievers is more than just a software company; We have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence and for our outstanding workplace culture

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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