Join Chewy's animal health legal team to support pharmacy businesses, negotiate contracts, and ensure compliance with legal regulations in the veterinary industry.
Our Opportunity:
We at Chewy seek an experienced and creative attorney to join our rapidly growing animal health legal team! The successful candidate will collaborate closely with veterinarians, pharmacists, and compliance teams to support our veterinary and pharmacy businesses. The person in this role will also support negotiations with pharmaceutical companies and other vendors in the animal space. This is a permanent, full-time hybrid in-office role for our Plantation, Florida, or Bellevue, Washington metro area office. The position will report to the Director, Associate General Counsel for Chewy Health, who is based in Bellevue, WA.
What You'll Do:
What You'll Need:
Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
If you have a question regarding your application, please contact [email protected].
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We at Chewy seek an experienced and creative attorney to join our rapidly growing animal health legal team! The successful candidate will collaborate closely with veterinarians, pharmacists, and compliance teams to support our veterinary and pharmacy businesses. The person in this role will also support negotiations with pharmaceutical companies and other vendors in the animal space. This is a permanent, full-time hybrid in-office role for our Plantation, Florida, or Bellevue, Washington metro area office. The position will report to the Director, Associate General Counsel for Chewy Health, who is based in Bellevue, WA.
What You'll Do:
- Support the day-to-day animal health pharmacy business including pharmacy / pharmacist licensing.
- Transform complex health and pharmacy information into clear, actionable advice, with a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Identify, interpret, and apply applicable legal and regulatory requirements and determine their implications for the business.
- Provide guidance regarding developments in federal and state laws regarding the company's animal healthcare/pharmaceutical verticals.
- Draft and negotiate tech, pharmacy, and healthcare contracts, including SaaS agreements, Terms and Conditions, Pharmaceutical Master Purchase Agreements/Vendor Terms, and Master Service Agreements.
- Review and assist in the implementation of all Pharmacy / healthcare-related tech projects within the organization.
- Partner with various business clients to develop actionable risk mitigation strategies from the beginning of projects to their "launch" dates, keeping in mind legal, privacy, and compliance issues.
- Perform regulatory analysis of potential new business lines, providing the business with pragmatic guardrails.
What You'll Need:
- 6 + years proven track record practicing law in large US or UK law firms or in-house at major US or European companies, demonstrating continual growth and the ability to succeed in those environments.
- Strong academic credentials and qualification to practice in at least one US state with the ability to become licensed in Florida or Washington State as in-house counsel.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as needed, flexing the approach as the matter requires.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain sophisticated legal issues clearly and simply.
- Outstanding analytical skills with a business-centric focus on risk.
- Excellent time management skills and experience leading to a diverse workload and challenging stakeholder demands.
- Be an excellent teammate, self-motivated, able to demonstrate a history of optimally resolving sophisticated legal issues, and able to successfully deliver sound and clear legal risk analysis advice in a fast-paced, iterative business setting.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and build consensus among various team members while maintaining a compliant approach.
- Ability to accommodate working with East Coast time zones and occasional travel.
- Experience in healthcare or pharmacy law is a plus, particularly if it is in the e-commerce or virtual space.
- Experience working in e-commerce or for SaaS providers is also a plus.
- Working knowledge of FDA Drugs and Device regulatory / compliance for human and or animal drugs is also desired but not required.
Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
If you have a question regarding your application, please contact [email protected].
To access Chewy's Customer Privacy Policy, please click here. To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.
Top Skills
Healthcare Contracts
Master Service Agreements
Pharmaceutical Master Purchase Agreements
Saas Agreements
Vendor Terms
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