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Senior Corporate Legal Counsel
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Senior Corporate Legal Counsel Duties: Works within the Sourcing department to not only advise on vendor-related contracts and issues, but also with responsibility for proactively managing risk profile by building and maintaining a non-superficial understanding of the Company's operations, its key personnel, existing, past, and potential legal issues. Build, roll out, and enforce the company's corporate legal policies, including contract requirements as it applies to Sourcing. Work cross-functionally with other departments in the organization to ensure that Company personnel have the tools and training to be aware of and in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations within their fields of work. Reviews legal documents, redlines draft agreements, and provides recommendations. Supervises the cost structure, requirements, and work of outside counsel when engaged. Has decision-making authority on legal, liability, risk, insurance, and legal compliance issues. Performs quarterly reviews on the Company's risk profile and works proactively with the business to re-orient and de-risk. Regularly prepares reports to advise executive management as to the Company's position on various risks, including domestic contract law, labor and employment, data protection, insurance issues, vendor procurement, and other issues affecting outsourcing financial and payment related services.

Qualifications: Law Degree (JD Degree). Licensed to practice law in Illinois. 7+ years of legal experience, including in-house corporate law experience. Exhibit a high degree of professional ethics and integrity. Detail-oriented. Experience working on matters of corporate governance and with a board of directors. Experience managing support staff in corporation. Experience in directing strategy and managing procurement and labor-related issues. Ability to partner effectively with business clients in a collaborative environment to understand and achieve stated business objectives within tight deadlines and with minimal supervision; Influential, with the ability to become a trusted, visible resource for business clients; An effective communicator with business partners, members of the legal department, and opposing counsel who can contribute to business decisions with convincing advice and who can express information clearly and in a manner, appropriate for the audience; Ability to assess the impact of advice on the business and foresee consequences; Willing and able to take on new challenges; A team player who can work with colleagues to improve team effectiveness while contributing his/her own ideas; Cost-conscious and aware of budget implications of decisions; Able to handle confidential information and data requiring the highest degree of attention to preserve confidentiality.
 
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