Senior Counsel

Description

• Advise internal sales, purchasing, trade, financial, and operations personnel on daily questions and long-term projects.
• Work with and supervise the work of junior legal professionals.
• Serve as a primary lawyer to review, draft, and negotiate customer and supply side commercial agreements, such as supply agreements, master services agreements, EPC and vendor agreements and other contracts.
• Analyze, revise, and negotiate contractual provisions to facilitate the needs of the business as well as compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, as well as company policies and procedures.
• Implement scalable contracting processes.
• Identify and solve legal and contractual risks with a focus on organizational profitability.
• Manage large-scale as well as routine legal projects on key substantive legal issues facing the organization.

Requirements

• Ability to work positively in an international work environment.
• Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Able to flexibly react to multiple and shifting priorities.
• Specialized legal ability to lead in a subject matter without sacrificing flexibility to be a generalist
• Ability to read, write, speak, hear; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach and lift with hands and arms frequently throughout the day.
• Experience leading the implementation of legal technology
• Member in good standing of a state bar such that legal work may be performed independently.
• Highly automated, clean, safe, and temperature-controlled production environment
• Tennessee bar admission is highly valued; Bar admission(s) in South Carolina and/or Kentucky are also useful
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and drafting skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to work and think independently, possessing sound, creative problem-solving skills.
• Strong work ethic and sense of ownership and proactivity.
• Understanding of how to practice law in a commercial setting as well as the rigors of the manufacturing environment.
• Willing to accept additional responsibility, challenging tasks, and/or projects.
• Foreign language fluency, especially in East Asian languages
• At least 5 years' experience in a law firm, in-house legal department, or equivalent setting.
• J.D. from an ABA accredited law school.

Benefits

• Paid Vacation and 14 Paid Holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
• Life Insurance (Company paid and additional voluntary life available)
• 401K with company match
• Short term and long-term disability coverage (Company Paid)
• HSA and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance