Senior Lead Counsel, Health & Wellness Legal -- Pharmacy

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join the Health & Wellness Legal Team as a Senior Lead Counsel managing the Pharmacy legal team and advising business and legal leadership about legal rights, obligations, and risks while serving as a strategic legal advisor on complex pharmacy issues for the world’s largest retailer.

The Senior Lead Counsel – Health & Wellness Legal -- Pharmacy role is for guiding business partners with respect to legal issues including:  pharmacy operations and billing; pharmacy board issues; and contract issues.  This role oversees negotiating complex agreements such as: pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) agreements, merchandising and wholesaler agreements for the purchase of pharmaceuticals, and 340b agreements.  You will also help pharmacists and the business understand and comply with applicable regulations as well as navigate ambiguity and uncertainty.  You will collaborate with cross functional teams to mitigate legal and business risk, providing legal advice and counsel to business clients and compliance.  You will also retain, manage, and collaborate with outside counsel when necessary.

What you'll do:

• Manage a team of lawyers working on various aspects of the pharmacy business. 

• Create legal strategies for the Company’s complex pharmacy related agreements.

• Advise pharmacists and the business on how to maneuver in high stakes situations with sometimes ambiguous and conflicting regulations.

• Help the business develop best practices and procedures that will mitigate corporate risk.

• Identify the need and provide the r legal support for business transactions and projects.

• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll bring:

• Subject matter expertise in pharmacy operations, pharmacy billing, pharmacy board issues, PBM and/or pharmaceutical supplier agreements, 340b.

• Experience managing a team.

• Self-motivation.

• Strong oral and written communication skills to interact with senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Experience working within cross-functional teams

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of pharmacy, retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

​Benefits & Perks: 

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opi