Legal Counsel
Job Location:
Westerville, OH - USA
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Job Summary
- Legal professional responsible for supporting the development and execution of legal strategies designed to mitigate organizational risk while enabling business objectives.
- Works closely with a supervising attorney to provide legal advice and transactional support across the business particularly in commercial contracting and general corporate matters.
- Partners with key stakeholders including Procurement and Commercial Contract Management (CCM) and collaborates with cross functional teams to ensure regional and global legal initiatives are effectively implemented within the assigned area of responsibility.
- Drafts reviews and negotiates customer vendor and general corporate agreements and provides day to day legal guidance to supported business units.
- Maintains strong awareness and working knowledge of applicable laws regulations and compliance requirements impacting company operations and proactively identifies legal risks and mitigation strategies.
- Provides comprehensive legal support in commercial contracting including drafting reviewing and negotiating customer and vendor agreements.
- Advises and supports functional teams including Regulatory Affairs Quality Assurance Strategy (M&A) Marketing GoGreen and Procurement.
- Assists with mergers and acquisitions including due diligence transaction support and post acquisition integration.
- Identifies assesses and recommends legal strategies to mitigate legal regulatory and commercial risk.
- Manages and supports resolution of disputes with customers vendors or business partners in coordination with supervising counsel and where appropriate outside counsel.
- Collaborates with internal legal and support teams to ensure consistent application of legal standards and policies.
- Undergraduate university degree
- Professional Juris Doctorate degree from accredited institution
- License to practice law in Ohio and in good standing
- 3 years of relevant experience
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience with a law firm corporate legal department or governmental agency (or any combination thereof) with a focus on transactional legal work.
- Knows fundamental law concepts practices and procedures of general law practice or a particular field of specialization.
- Highly organized
- Effective communicator
- Influencing skills
- Competent & experienced in facilitating meetings or workshops and presenting to groups
- Energetic
- Proactive with a customer focused approach
- Ability to build rapport with key internal contacts
- Flexible team player
- Membership in at least one state bar (in good standing) with the ability to become a member of the Ohio bar
- Great opportunity to work for the biggest logistics company in the world
- International and virtual environment
- Flexibility and great opportunity to learn
- Tempting Compensation and benefits
Legal Counsel
Would you like to join the Logistics Company for the WorldHave you often wondered how products get from point A to point B DHL Supply Chain does just that.
Become an essential part of everyday life by contributing to an organization that is Connecting People and Improving Lives. If you have a passion for people a desire to problem-solve and eagerness to pursue continuous improvement opportunities we look forward to exploring career possibilities with you!
Job Description
Legal professional with a 5-7 years contract experience to provide general legal support to assigned business units. There will be heavy focus on the review and negotiation of wide-ranging contracts (e.g. customer contracts real estate procurement) to ensure compliance with Laws and Company policies.
prepare draft and analyze contracts and contract terms related to a variety of customer vendor trade commercial financial and operational matters to protect DHLs legal and business interests
provide general legal advice to clients served and advise members of the business on legal and related risks associated;
work well as member of a closely-knit diverse and well-respected legal team defending and representing DHLs interest;
deliver trainings on legal topics relevant to the business and advise business on legal trends and developing areas of law;
possess advanced and well-developed skills and knowledge within the contracts/transactions area with the ability to integrate theory and principals with DHLs practices policies and precedents;
lead various projects impacting business operations and revenue and liaise with senior management business divisions consultants outside counsel and other parties as appropriate
Positive attitude and strong attention to detail are skills and qualifications include:
Required Education and Experience
B.A. (from an accredited college or university) & J.D. (from an accredited law school)
Licensed to practice law in State
Contracts/transactional experience (with full knowledge of contracts terminology)
Our Organization has a business casual environment and focuses on teamwork associate development training and continuous improvement. We offer competitive wages excellent affordable insurance benefits (including health dental vision and life) 401K plan paid vacation and holidays.
Our Organization is an equal opportunity employer.
