Director of Legal Affairs

**Lacroix Medical Group**
Quebec | Full-time | Permanent position | $250,000 - $300,000/year

**About Lacroix Medical Group**:
For over 15 years, Lacroix Medical Group has been the leader in private medicine in Quebec.
The company brings together a province-wide network of private medical clinics, state-of-the-art operating rooms, and a private laboratory, all within a complex, highly regulated environment with high political and media visibility, and marked by a rapid and sustained growth rate.

In this context, the **protection, influence, and strategic anticipation.**.

**Strategic Role**:
Reporting to the Presidents, the incumbent:

- Assumes overall management of the Legal Department and its resources.
- Proactively contributes to the organization's strategic direction.
- Protects the interests of the company and its leaders in a context of high legal, political, and reputational stakes.
- Develops innovative and preventive strategies to secure the Group's growth and sustainability.

**Your main Responsibilities**:
**Legal Risk Management and Compliance**:

- Oversee business intelligence and ensure compliance of all activities with applicable standards (CMQ, Santé Québec, MSSS, Accreditation Canada, ACPM, etc.).
- Manage and secure processes related to operating room, clinic, and laboratories.
- Develop proactive legal, political, and reputational risk management strategies.

**Legal Representation and Litigation**:

- Ensure, as a priority and strategic measure, the management of disputes related to:

- medical practice and professional liability,
- employee and partner contracts,
- contractual or commercial disputes.
- Oversee or represent the organization before judicial and administrative bodies, including negotiating settlements Strategic.

**Contract Negotiation and Corporate Affairs**:

- Oversee and negotiate the organization's strategic agreements:

- contracts with physicians in Quebec and outside the province,
- Agreements with suppliers and strategic partners,
- Financing contracts with financial institutions,
- Commercial leases and corporate documents.
- Ensure that all agreements incorporate a legal, commercial, and strategic vision aligned with the objectives growth.

**Team Leadership and Internal Governance**:

- Lead, develop, and mobilize a team of lawyers and paralegals, with a leadership style focused on performance, rigor, and collaboration.
- Promote an internal culture of integrity, confidentiality, and collaboration Interdisciplinary.
- Implement high-level legal governance and contract management tools.

**Strategic advice and influence**:

- Play a key advisory role to management and decision-making bodies.
- Assess the impact of legislative and policy changes and anticipate threats to the practice of private medicine in Quebec.
- Formulate clear, strategic recommendations geared toward sustainable growth.

**External Firm Management**:

- Optimize the use of external resources while ensuring strategic and budgetary control.

**Required profile**:

- Member of the **Bar of Quebec** in good standing.
- **15+ years** of relevant experience, including a solid background in litigation and strategic consulting in medium
- to large-scale organizations.
- Expertise in **health law**, **corporate law** and **commercial law**, combined with In-depth understanding of the regulatory and political environment of the private healthcare sector.
- Proven experience leading a legal department, with a proven ability to advise senior management and shareholders on complex strategic decisions.
- Inspiring leadership and the ability to build a high-level team.
- Strategic vision and the ability to progress to an executive (VP) role.
- Recognized skills in **high-level negotiation**, **crisis management**, and **communication with decision-making and political bodies**.

**Salary and Benefits Packages**:

- **Annual Salary**: $250,000 to $300,000
- **Vacation**: 4 weeks + 8 statutory holidays per year
- **RRSP** with contribution of Employer
- **Health Account**: $/year
- **Lacroix Gift Card**: $/year
- **Cell Phone**: $/month