Corporate Counsel, Data Analytics

Job Summary
Walgreens is seeking a Corporate Counsel to support our evolving data commercialization, analytics, and digital insights initiatives. This attorney will provide strategic, business-forward legal guidance on data-driven products and services, including the commercialization of analytics, measurement, and insights, as well as associated contracting, privacy, and data governance considerations. The role partners closely with Data & Analytics, Digital/Ecommerce, Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Procurement, and Information Security teams to enable responsible innovation while managing legal and regulatory risk.

This position reports to a senior member of the Legal Department and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.

Why This Role Matters at Walgreens

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of retail, pharmacy, and digital innovation
• High visibility role partnering with business leaders shaping emerging revenue streams
• Collaborative legal team focused on pragmatic, business-driven solutions

Key Responsibilities
1. Commercial & Product Counseling

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of agreements supporting both inbound and outbound data/analytics use cases, including:
  • Data licensing and data sharing agreements
  • Analytics/insights services agreements and statements of work
  • Measurement and attribution arrangements, clean room agreements, and collaboration agreements
  • Partner, platform, and vendor agreements involving data processing and analytics enablement
• Advise business teams on structuring data commercialization models (e.g., licensed datasets, aggregated insights, analytics services, measurement products) and associated legal risk tradeoffs.

2. Data Use & Consumer Protection

• Partner with Privacy Counsel to ensure contracts reflect appropriate controls (e.g., data handling, retention, breach notification, audit rights, cross-border considerations, subcontractor flow-downs).

3. Risk Management and Deal Enablement

• Provide practical legal advice on:
  • Intellectual property ownership and licensing (including derivative works and model outputs where applicable)
  • Confidentiality, competitive use restrictions, and data use limitations
  • Indemnities, limitation of liability, service levels, and performance commitments
  • Audit/verification mechanisms for measurement/attribution and data quality
• Create and maintain templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidance to streamline contracting and reduce cycle time.4. Website & App Governance

4. Cross-Functional Risk Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders; translate legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance aligned to business priorities.
• Support stakeholder education on contract and data-risk fundamentals (e.g., “what we can/can’t do” with certain data types, common pitfalls, and best practices)

Job Responsibilities

• Handles routine legal matters which generally focus on applying knowledge of one or more legal specialties
• Typically receives specific direction from management or more senior law professionals as to the outcomes, process and schedules expected while developing a deeper knowledge of the business operations of the company
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to execute legal strategy
• Assists on cases, matters and projects, performs and supervises research, reviews standard documents and routine contracts, and prepares routine filings.
• Develops and implements internal legal policies and best practices to enhance operational efficiency
• Works to develop fluency in legal concepts impacting the work performed

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
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Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and at least three (3) years of post-bar attorney legal work experience in a combination of law firm
• Required licensure to practice law in at least one state
• Required Illinois bar membership or active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• Experience with time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates
• Experience collaborating across business lines to develop and/or execute departmental strategies
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

Preferred Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant legal experience, including:
  • commercial transactions, preferably including data, technology, analytics, digital products, or adtech/martech.
• Strong working knowledge of:
  • Privacy and data protection laws
  • Drafting and negotiating complex agreements (MSAs, SOWs, BAAs, DPAs).
  • Strong issue-spotting and business judgment; ability to balance legal risk with pragmatic business solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across functions and levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver practical, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced environment.
• In-house experience supporting data/analytics, digital product, marketing technology, measurement/attribution, or data partnerships.
• Familiarity with:
  • Data rights concepts (ownership vs. license; derived/aggregated data; permitted use frameworks)
  • Common privacy/security contracting concepts (DPA terms, security exhibits, breach protocols)
  • Data enablement models (clean rooms, tokenization, pseudonymization, de-identification)
• Experience building legal playbooks, templates, and scalable contracting processes.

Key Competencies

• Commercial mindset and ability to drive deals to closure
• Strong issue-spotting and risk assessment skills
• Ability to translate legal requirements into clear, operational guidance
• Effective cross-functional collaboration with non-legal stakeholders
• Sound judgment with a solutions-oriented approach
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary Range: $115400 - $196200 / Salaried