Senior Legal Counsel

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

Join our team

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

Join our team

As part of the TELUS Legal and Regulatory Affairs team supporting TELUS Health, you will be delivering world-class, innovative and timely legal solutions to improve the health and well-being of citizens in Canada and around the world. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.


Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together

We are looking for a commercial and transactional lawyer to primarily support our Canadian Employer Solutions business while also supporting TELUS Health with its global M&A activity. As a business-oriented lawyer, the successful candidate will be engaged in a variety of legal matters, including commercial contract negotiations, strategic partnerships and alliances, requests for proposals and support with product launches. You will also lead TELUS Health through complex M&A transactions, including due diligence, structuring, negotiating and drafting transaction documents.

Here's how

• Strengthening relationships with key stakeholders and sophisticated clients by cultivating a deep understanding of their business and providing proactive, solution-oriented advice.
• Striving continuously to advance legal and business practices by driving new approaches and process improvements while balancing a high volume of matters in a timely and effective manner.

You’re the missing piece of the puzzle

• Experience advising clients in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Experience supporting M&A transactions.
• Respected for your legal skills, business acumen, initiative, creativity, learning-oriented mindset and collaborative style.
• Confident at engaging and interacting with sophisticated stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Valued for strong analytical skills that help you resolve client and legal concerns practically and efficiently.
• Noted for your ability to effectively communicate legal advice (including written) to a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Recognized for your record of successfully managing multiple, concurrent files and priorities and delivering on commitments.
• Called 5 or more years ago to the Bar.

• Member in good standing with the Law Society of one of the Canadian Provinces.

Great-to-haves

• Ability to support our team in French (written and spoken), though this is not a requirement for the position.
• Experience negotiating technology-focused contracts (including Software as a Service offerings).
• Privacy law expertise.

Location - Canada - Remote

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. 

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process. 

Disclaimer: In accordance with the TELUS Health Solutions Data Center Security Policy, as a condition of employment, all team members whose job functions require they work at a Data Center and/or have access to detailed knowledge of technology related to client service delivery, are subject to a Personnel Security Screening conducted through the Government of Canada.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS. Accordingly, we require anyone joining our TELUS Health Care Centres to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared with the TELUS Group of Companies’ Talent Acquisition team(s) and/or any leader(s) who will be part of the selection process.

About Us

Being part of the team at TELUS Health is more than a job; it’s a career-defining experience.

It allows you to do innovative and meaningful work with talented and collaborative teams. It’s an opportunity to improve businesses and lives by building healthier, happier workplaces. And it’s a chance to build genuine, long-term relationships along the way.

A place to experience more

Find the support and encouragement to consistently push boundaries and deliver impactful solutions. Our collaborative culture means your ideas will be heard and your hard work will be rewarded. You will be leveraging our world-leading technology, products, clinical services and passionate team members to revolutionize access to health care and wellbeing, and drive remarkable experiences for the benefit of all the clients and individuals we serve around the world.

Talented people who care

Coming to work each day is an opportunity. It’s a chance for you to work with a multidisciplinary global team of nearly 10,000 smart and driven members whose passion for their work matches your own, resulting in helping create a healthier future for everyone.

Work that matters

Make a difference in the lives of our clients and their employees every day – by providing meaningful solutions in more than 160 countries, that help people and businesses perform at their best by delivering both digital innovation and clinical services to improve total physical, mental and financial health and wellbeing across the full spectrum of primary and preventative care.

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