[Hiring] Contract & Corporate Generalist @Covetrus

Role Description

The Contract & Corporate Generalist is a versatile corporate legal generalist role for an experienced professional who enjoys hands-on contract review and negotiation, procurement support, and a broad range of corporate legal and compliance work.

• This position serves as the first-line reviewer for direct and indirect procurement contracts, representing at least 50% of the role.
• The work requires a strong foundation in contracts and involves using AI-enabled review tools and established legal playbooks.
• Matters are escalated to assigned attorneys only when legal judgment is required.
• At least 40% of the role is dedicated to paralegal support across the Legal divisions and overflow assistance for other support team members.
• This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys learning, can readily shift among tasks and projects, and is committed to supporting colleagues.
• This is a generalist, not a subject-matter expert role.
• The remaining 10% is reserved for emerging tasks and projects where paralegal skills can add the most value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Contract Review & Procurement Enablement:
  • Serve as the primary reviewer for contracts supporting direct and indirect procurement (including DPAs), using a CLM system.
  • Conduct contract reviews using AI-enabled tools and approved legal playbooks, identifying standard versus non-standard terms and risks.
  • Independently resolve routine contract issues and escalate to the assigned attorney only when required based on playbook thresholds or risk.
  • Serve as primary legal negotiator on the contracts through execution and assist in managing the signing process, following our company’s Delegation of Authority policy on authorized signatories.
  • Partner closely with Direct and Indirect Procurement teams to ensure timely, business-aligned contract execution.
  • Prepare risks analysis for business stakeholders to make informed risk decisions around negotiations.
  • Partner with our Legal Automation team when feedback is needed on how the CLM system is performing for the contract reviews and negotiations.
• General Corporate Support:
  • Compliance Support: Monitor regulatory changes (e.g. trade, ESG, ethics, healthcare, etc), assist with internal compliance audits, track licensing renewals, track policy renewals, and assist in updating policies.
  • Transaction Assistance: Assist with mergers, acquisitions, and financings by organizing virtual data rooms, managing closing checklists, and tracking signature packets.
  • Sales Support: Track and coordinate the accurate completion of questionnaires and due diligence forms for prospective and existing clients.
  • Employment Legal Support: Assist managing HR legal compliance, workplace policy governance, immigration tracking, and preventative risk mitigation.
  • Cross-Functional Communication: Serve as the primary liaison between Legal and internal stakeholders by managing legal intake, gathering information, and coordinating communications.
  • Corporate Governance & Records: Assist in maintaining minute books, manage subsidiary formations and leadership changes, file annual reports or other corporate governance support needs.
• Other Tasks and Projects, as needed: Our team handles a broad and evolving range of matters, and you may be asked to support various areas, including newly emerging needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience of corporate paralegal experience, preferably in an in-house legal department or a major corporate law firm.
• Significant experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating various complex contracts for both products we buy and sell as well as SaaS and complex AI-based vendors.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Willing to consider a junior lawyer.
• Comfortable and efficient operating within various legal systems (e.g., CLM, workflow, and matter management platforms) to get work done, and able to support others in the systems they use.
• This role operates as a user of existing systems, templates, and playbooks, not as a systems administrator or process/automation owner; suggestions for improvement are welcome, but designing or building workflows sits with other team members.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional departments.
• Experience working with playbooks to assist in contract reviews but other support functions as needed.

Requirements

• Strong contract drafting, reviewing and negotiating experience.
• High comfort level with AI-assisted contract review tools and legal workflow platforms.
• Ability to distinguish standard versus non-standard risk and escalate appropriately.
• Excellent written communication skills focused on clarity, efficiency, and consistency.
• Self-directed, detail-oriented, and outcome-driven.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Passion for collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to multi-task independently, be proactive and successfully manage a variety of demands.
• Thrives in fast-paced, business-centric environments, typical of high-growth companies.
• Team player willing to roll up sleeves and help in all ways, regardless of how menial it may be.
• Curiosity and the sincere desire to assist every member of the organization to succeed.

Benefits

• 401k savings & company match
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Maternity leave
• Parental leave
• Military leave
• Other leaves of absence
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Health savings accounts
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life & disability benefits
• Identity theft protection
• Pet insurance
• Certain positions may include eligibility for a short-term incentive plan