Director, Legal Operations at Avalon Administrative Services LLC – Tampa, Florida

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans nationwide, the company covers over 44+ million lives and delivers 10-20% proven outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols and driving down overall costs.

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference.

Avalon has years of expertise in managing lab benefits and now is leveraging digitized lab results to drive quality clinical outcomes and proven savings. When you look at how we bring this to life, we offer Lab Insights solutions that work together to arm you with critical lab-driven insights to accelerate your value-driven care success. This is the first-of-its-kind suite of solutions to help you achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-member cost of healthcare.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Director, Legal Operations position:

The Director, Legal Operations is responsible for providing support to Avalon’s Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Government Affairs Departments. The Director, Legal Operations will provide, support, and/or manage administrative, licensing, internal and external audit, compliance policy maintenance, lobby registrations, and contracting processes across the supported teams. This role reviews various contract types and provides preliminary redline/negotiating support to attorneys as needed. This role will ensure Avalon’s compliance with all federal and state licensing requirements. This role will develop, improve, and maintain documentation regarding key processes across the supported teams. This position will perform additional tasks at the direction of the Chief Legal Officer.

This position is eligible for remote work, but regular business travel will be required, including Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.

Director, Legal Operations – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Support Legal Operations

• Support Compliance Operations

• Support Internal Audit Operations

• Support Government Affairs Operations

• Assist Government Affairs production of written materials in support of its lobbying and related activities

Director, Legal Operations – Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree. May consider relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Compliance certifications or will consider individuals currently working to attain such certifications.
• Expert knowledge of the health care industry and applicable laws and regulations.
• 10+ years’ health care legal or compliance experience.
• 10+ years’ experience with conducting or supporting internal and external audits.
• Strong working knowledge of laws, regulations, and related matters relevant to the operations of health plans.
• Experience developing and deploying: risk and compliance systems; contracting processes including contract reviews; internal auditing; legal department administration; compliance program requirements; and government affairs support.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and ability to excel in a team environment.

Director, Legal Operations – Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years general experience in either healthcare organizations, preferably within or involving managed care plans.