Corporate Counsel | Benefits & Insurance Services Division

#LI-OD1 #LI-Hybrid 

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

• Provide central office legal support to draft, review, negotiate and manage new and existing contracts and account relationships, business and vendor relationships across all CBIZ Property & Casualty and Life Insurance practice groups

• Ability to utilize DocuSign, Docuware, Sagitta and Salesforce

• RFP support for all practice areas 

• Assist with acquisition issues

• Develop and implement workflow process with a focus on improvements through AI

• Primary legal support to Property & Casualty when CBIZ is the Client (contracts and disputes)

• Maintain contract templates 

• Additional responsibilities as assigned

Preferred Qualifications 

• 8 years of professional in-house counsel experience

• Juris Doctorate in good standing (preferably Missouri or Kansas)

• Possesses advanced knowledge and understanding of industry and professional concepts, principles, practices, and procedures

• Possesses expert knowledge of pertinent laws, regulations, and professional standards

• Expert use of applicable technology – specifically Copilot

• Proficient use of MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and enterprise communication and travel solutions (Concur, Microsoft Teams)

• Experience performing work that requires initiative and leadership skills

• Ability to anticipate and elicit customer needs

• Ability to self-learn and develop business and technical knowledge quickly 

• Motivated team player with demonstrated interpersonal skills

• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines

• Capacity to adapt and work effectively within a variety of situations, and with various individuals or groups

• Display innovative ideas and solutions and capacity to identify and eliminate redundant work efforts and inefficient processes

• Demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement

• Ability to provide technical leadership and management of a team of associates

• Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member

• Proactively manages issues and expectations of colleagues and clients

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Graduate or specialty degree preferred
• 8 years experience
• 6 years supervisory experience (if applicable)
• Ability to manage deadlines, work on multiple assignments and prioritize each assignment as necessary
• Proficient use of applicable technology
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all levels of organization, both internally and externally