Healthcare Contracts & Licensing Paralegal

Vālenz Health® is the destination for employers, brokers, payers, and providers to reduce costs, improve quality, and elevate the healthcare experience. Through advanced technology and clinical expertise, Valenz creates a distinctly different approach to a complex healthcare system. With our solutions, we execute across the entire healthcare journey — from member experience to payment integrity, provider quality, and plan performance. With one of America’s largest cost, quality and utilization datasets, we create greater transparency, flexibility, and cost containment — empowering members and employers with the information they need to make smarter, more cost-effective decisions.

About This Opportunity:
As a Healthcare Contracts and Licensing Paralegal, you’ll manage healthcare licensing, regulatory filings, and contract administration activities to support our Legal team. You’ll maintain required licenses and corporate filings, oversee contract workflows and records, and apply established agreement terms to support contract-related processes. You’ll also collaborate with Legal and cross-functional business teams to ensure accurate documentation, timely regulatory compliance, and efficient contract administration.

Things You’ll Do Here:

• Manages healthcare licensing activities, including utilization management, third-party administrator, and other applicable licenses, permits, registrations, renewals, and amendments across applicable jurisdictions.
• Independently prepares, submits, tracks, and maintains licensing applications, regulatory documentation, renewal requirements, and related deadlines.
• Manages corporate registrations, filings, and related documentation and supports entity formations, amendments, dissolutions, and other corporate administrative activities.
• Researches licensing and regulatory requirements and communicates identified requirements, deadlines, and documentation needs to appropriate Legal team members.
• Administers contract workflows, including document routing, approvals, electronic signature, execution, storage, metadata, and maintenance within the contract lifecycle management system.
• Reviews executed agreements and applies established contract terms for administrative purposes, including effective dates, renewals, termination provisions, and related obligations.
• Manages agreement termination processes by confirming applicable provisions, coordinating required documentation, and ensuring established procedures and timelines are followed.
• Assists with contract-related data requests, reporting, document retrieval, and preparation of approved contract templates in accordance with established Legal guidance.
• Routes redlines, negotiations, legal interpretations, and matters requiring independent legal judgment to the appropriate Legal team member.
• Confirms insurance information and obtains Certificates of Insurance, schedules, surety bond information, and other required documentation.
• Serves as Vendor Relationship Manager for assigned vendors and supports related administrative and documentation requirements.
• Maintains accurate and organized legal, regulatory, corporate, intellectual property, licensing, and contractual records and identifies opportunities to improve related workflows and processes.
• Performs other related Legal Operations and administrative duties as assigned.

Accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Associate’s degree, paralegal certification from an accredited institution, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a legal, healthcare regulatory, contract administration, corporate paralegal, or related role.
• Hands-on experience independently managing healthcare licensing, including utilization management, third-party administrator, or similar state regulatory licenses and filings.
• Experience preparing, submitting, tracking, and maintaining licensing applications, renewals, amendments, and regulatory documentation.
• Experience administering contract workflows, including document routing, electronic signature, executed agreement management, and contract repository or CLM maintenance.
• Ability to interpret and apply established contract provisions for administrative purposes, including effective dates, renewals, termination requirements, and related obligations.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to independently manage multiple deadlines, filings, contracts, and priorities.
• Strong attention to detail with demonstrated accuracy in maintaining legal, regulatory, and contractual records.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with Legal team members, business partners, regulators, and external parties.
• Ability to recognize matters requiring legal interpretation or independent judgment and appropriately escalate them to Legal counsel or designated team members.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and experience using contract lifecycle management systems, document repositories, electronic signature platforms, or similar legal technology.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive business and legal information with discretion.

A plus if you have…

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Legal Studies, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Experience managing healthcare licenses across multiple states or jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting utilization management, TPA, insurance, or other regulated healthcare entities.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems and Legal Operations processes.
• Experience with corporate entity management, registrations, or regulatory filings.
• Experience working within healthcare or another highly regulated industry.

Where You’ll Work: This is a fully remote position, and we’ll provide all the necessary equipment!

• Work Environment: You’ll need a quiet workspace that is free from distractions.
• Technology: Reliable internet connection—if you can use streaming services, you’re good to go!
• Security: Adherence to company security protocols, including the use of VPNs, secure passwords, and company-approved devices/software.
• Location: You must be US based, in a location where you can work effectively and comply with company policies such as HIPAA.

Why You'll Love Working Here

Our mission is to advance healthcare through technology and expertise to optimize cost, quality, access, and utilization for all. We bring that mission to life through our commitment to Collaboration, Performance, Transparency, and Trust—the core values that guide how we work with our members, our customers, and each other.

Benefits

• Generously subsidized company-sponsored Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, with access to services through our own products, Healthcare Blue Book and KISx Card.
• Spending account options: HSA, FSA, and DCFSA
• 401K with company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible working environment
• Generous Paid Time Off to include vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program that includes professional counseling, referrals, and additional services
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Pet insurance
• Employee discounts on phone plans, car rentals and computers
• Community giveback opportunities, including paid time off for philanthropic endeavors

At Valenz, we celebrate, support, and thrive on inclusion, for the benefit of our associates, our partners, and our products. Valenz is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all associates and to providing associates with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Valenz are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.