Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Commercial

Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the nation’s most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we’re redefining what’s possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing. We’re proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.

Our strength is built on four core values: People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we’ve created a uniquely integrated healthcare platform powered by advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless commitment to patient care. From manufacturing and quality control to distribution and customer experience, our teams work together to raise industry standards, expand access to critical medications, and improve outcomes for patients and providers across the country.

At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new role. It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that’s transforming healthcare at scale. We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level. Your ideas matter here, your development is supported, and the work you do has a direct impact on the lives of millions.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment where innovation, collaboration, and ambition come together, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s transform healthcare together.

Position Summary:

The Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Commercial serves as a strategic legal advisor responsible for building scalable commercial and corporate legal infrastructure supporting Empower’s hyper-growth 503A and 503B environment. This role owns complex commercial agreements, corporate governance activities, strategic transactions, and enterprise legal operations while protecting contractual economics, mitigating risk, and enabling disciplined organizational growth. Leveraging AI as a force multiplier, the position improves contract execution speed, legal analysis quality, operational efficiency, and decision-making through automation, structured workflows, and advanced contract intelligence tools. The role partners closely with Executive Leadership, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Compliance to strengthen enterprise governance, accelerate business execution, and support scalable growth without compromising regulatory obligations or enterprise value. Success requires P80–P90 talent demonstrating strategic thinking, execution rigor, learning agility, enterprise ownership, and sound legal judgment.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Commercial Infrastructure

Commercial Structuring: Lead the structuring, drafting, review, and negotiation of complex vendor, customer, licensing, real estate, and strategic partnership agreements supporting enterprise growth objectives and operational scalability. Develop business-aligned legal solutions balancing commercial opportunity, contractual protections, operational realities, and regulatory obligations while leveraging AI-enabled contract intelligence tools to improve negotiation efficiency, execution speed, and enterprise risk visibility across highly complex commercial relationships.

Contract Governance: Develop scalable contract templates, clause libraries, governance standards, and approval workflows that improve legal consistency, reduce deviation rates, and accelerate contract cycle times across enterprise operations. Implement AI-supported review processes, automated validation workflows, and standardized negotiation frameworks that strengthen operational discipline, improve legal execution quality, and support efficient management of high-volume commercial contracting activities.

Risk Evaluation: Evaluate contractual financial exposure, operational risks, indemnification structures, and liability allocation while providing clear, business-aligned legal guidance supporting executive decision-making and enterprise growth objectives. Partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Executive Leadership to negotiate practical legal solutions that strengthen commercial relationships, protect organizational interests, and maintain scalable legal governance within a highly regulated environment.

Corporate Governance & Transactions

Transaction Support: Support mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and capital projects through legal diligence, contract analysis, governance reviews, and enterprise risk assessment activities. Provide strategic legal guidance throughout transaction lifecycles while identifying legal exposure, strengthening contractual protections, and supporting scalable business integration strategies aligned with operational, financial, and organizational objectives.

Governance Management: Maintain enterprise entity management records, governance documentation, board approvals, and corporate compliance activities with exceptional accuracy, confidentiality, and operational discipline. Develop scalable governance processes, standardized documentation controls, and centralized legal tracking systems that strengthen organizational visibility, improve governance efficiency, and support enterprise readiness for audits, transactions, and regulatory reviews.

Strategic Agreements: Structure strategic agreements with clear allocation of legal risk, indemnification obligations, operational responsibilities, and financial protections supporting sustainable enterprise growth. Collaborate cross-functionally with Executive Leadership, Finance, Compliance, and Operational stakeholders to negotiate agreements balancing commercial objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term organizational value while minimizing legal and financial exposure.

AI-Enabled Legal Transformation

Legal Automation: Implement AI-enabled legal technologies supporting automated contract drafting, document review, obligation tracking, and legal workflow management across enterprise legal operations. Lead modernization initiatives improving operational efficiency, execution consistency, legal scalability, and response times while ensuring legal processes remain compliant, auditable, and aligned with evolving organizational growth requirements.

Contract Analytics: Analyze contract data, negotiation trends, risk patterns, and operational metrics to strengthen legal strategy, improve negotiation outcomes, and reduce enterprise risk exposure. Utilize AI-supported analytical capabilities and legal intelligence tools to identify process inefficiencies, optimize contractual protections, and provide leadership with actionable insights supporting strategic business decisions and operational scalability.

Workflow Design: Design repeatable legal workflows incorporating validation controls, confidentiality safeguards, approval governance, and operational accountability standards supporting scalable enterprise legal operations. Develop structured intake processes, automated routing capabilities, and standardized legal frameworks that improve execution quality, reduce administrative burden, and strengthen visibility into legal operations, contract performance, and enterprise risk management activities.

Individual Ownership & Execution Discipline

Operational Ownership: Operate with full ownership and accountability across assigned legal domains while delivering high-quality outcomes with minimal oversight in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment. Balance strategic legal judgment, operational responsiveness, and execution discipline while managing competing priorities, enterprise risks, and complex stakeholder relationships supporting scalable organizational growth and operational continuity.

Performance Systems: Establish legal intake systems, prioritization methodologies, tracking mechanisms, and performance measurement frameworks supporting operational efficiency and enterprise transparency. Implement scalable governance standards, workflow reporting tools, and AI-supported operational metrics that improve visibility into legal workloads, execution timelines, contract cycle performance, and organizational service delivery effectiveness.

Subject Expertise: Serve as enterprise subject matter expert supporting mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital projects, and complex commercial transactions across the organization. Provide strategic legal guidance, mentorship, and decision support to internal stakeholders while strengthening organizational legal capabilities, operational alignment, and enterprise readiness for growth, transformation, and evolving regulatory requirements.

Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership