Assistant Corporate Counsel, Legal Compliance Lead

Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.

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The role of the Assistant Corporate Counsel, Legal Compliance Lead for Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. (“GBS”) is intended to oversee the full lifecycle of compliance needs for GBS. This requires developing a strong understanding of the business and the legal and regulatory framework within which GBS operates and using that knowledge to identify and prioritize risks, create written policies, guidelines, and standards, and helping to effectively communicating those to the organization. The Assistant Corporate Counsel, Compliance enforces standards, conducts risk assessments, monitors, audits, and reports out to appropriate business departments. This role also helps develop, lead and maintain the overall compliance program for the organization and provide guidance to the various functional legal areas, including those relating to company contracts and other transactional matters (including mergers & acquisitions activity), broker compensation and other billing matters, information technology issues and similar matters.

• Serve as legal adviser on regulatory issues that impact GBS, including those involving ERISA, HIPAA, Insurance Licensure, Client Fee Arrangements/Contracts and relationships with M/WBE's
• Develop, oversee and administer the compliance capabilities, including a review of existing policies, procedures and standards, identify areas of continuous improvement and conduct regular reviews.
• Participate in due diligence and integration efforts for companies GBS acquires and advise GBS business leaders on compliance or integration matters related to those acquisitions
• Manage, implement and enforce, on behalf of GBS, the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) corporate compliance policies, procedures and training, and otherwise work closely with AJG’s Global Chief Compliance Officer in connection with any required compliance initiatives.
• Monitor and interpret new regulations or law changes that impact the business and develop appropriate action plans and strategies to accommodate such changes.
• Establish and cultivate direct relationships with key regulatory bodies.
• Review and respond to client contract issues, questionnaires, audits and RFP's related to compliance matters.
• Assist in response to regulatory, agency and governmental inquiries.
• Participate as needed with internal investigations.
• Periodically audit and measure the compliance program's effectiveness.
• Serve as GBS’ representative on the AJG Risk Committee and Privacy Committee.
• Report all findings and escalate issues to the Divisional General Counsel as appropriate.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• J.D. Degree. Must be licensed to practice law.
• Mimimum 8 years hands-on experience in a compliance and regulatory function.

Preferred:

• Experience with employee benefits and ERISA.
• Working knowledge of the Insurance industry.
• Prior experience designing and building a similar functional capability either as the lead or key participant.
• Understands and integrates details of the business to ensure the compliance implementation is workable across functions.
• Prior experience working in a highly regulated environment - such as insurance, financial services or healthcare.

Critical Competencies and Behaviors:

The Assistant Corporate Counsel, Legal Compliance Lead will be a valued partner to the leadership team and will possess the following competencies:

• Dedicated and committed to maintaining a premier compliance function in a fast paced, team-orientated environment with a specific focus on achieving favorable outcomes for the business while living within the legal framework where GBS operates.
• Leads by influence, rather than authority arising from reporting lines. Drives change while retaining the ability to exercise independent judgement on specific compliance issues.
• Motivates individuals at all levels to strive for success and excellence.
• Strategic, creative and analytically-minded. Possesses the right balance of "thinker" and doer. Can translate strategy into action. Task and project focused, can set and meet deadlines; detail and task-oriented.
• Outstanding client management skills, with the ability to inspire confidence and trust with senior management, clients, carriers, brokers and regulatory bodies.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-sufficient, and extremely comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong interpersonal skills. Successfully interfaces with employees throughout the company by virtue of professional competence, personal integrity and approach.
• Strong bias for action. Results driven with an anticipatory style that enables him/her to advise management to identify problems and opportunities for line management. A team player, willing to set aside his/her own ego for the good of the common goal.
• Outstanding data-driven decision making skills. Facilitates the effectiveness of key leaders by providing data, information and insight that is actionable, timely and understandable.
• A "can do" attitude and tenacity in pursuit of company goals.
• Detail-oriented builder with a natural curiosity.
• Proactively prioritizes and works through complex compliance and regulatory issues.
• Possesses advanced critical thinking and analytical ability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that serve to influence and persuade others. Excels in communicating across all levels of the organization.
• Tough-minded, possesses a high level of energy, is able to take constructive coaching, and calm under fire.
• Able to work collegially, but effectively through others and build strong professional relationships.
• Solid judgment in making decisions and taking actions that build business momentum and market credibility.

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We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

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Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

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Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.