Corporate Counsel

Job Summary: The Corporate Counsel will serve as a trusted advisor on the Commercial legal team, counseling the Company’s sales and sourcing organizations.

This role will include a broad portfolio of legal work spanning multiple international jurisdictions and will provide primary transactional support to these teams.

Based upon experience, this role will also work with the Company’s Corporate Development team regarding acquisitions and other strategic transactions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Engage and build relationships with the business to act as “front-line” legal counsel and provide high-quality, pragmatic legal and business advice regarding a wide range of commercial and product issues
Draft and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements
Assess proposed commercial transactions and develop deal structures to minimize legal and business risks.
Think strategically and help create and execute on plans to achieve both short-term and long-term results and communicate with key legal and business stakeholders
Develop and implement processes, templates, and best practices to support the work of the role
Minimal Qualifications:
Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school;
Minimum of 3 years of experience with major law firm and/or corporate legal department;
Licensed to practice law in the United States, a member in good standing with a State bar, and the ability to become a member of the Wisconsin State bar.
Preferred Qualifications:
Previous experience with a global manufacturer and publicly-traded company
Previous experience conducting all aspects of mergers and acquisitions
Previous experience working on international teams in a matrixed environment
Knowledge/Skills:
Excellent negotiation and legal drafting skills
Excellent communication skills
High work capacity and passion for the job, in addition to high ethical and moral standards
Demonstrated ability to identify risk, problem solve, and offer creative solutions to mitigate risk
Ability to manage and prioritize work from multiple stakeholders
Ability to work across organizational, functional, and geographic boundaries to drive business strategies, communications and multi-geography projects and teams in a matrixed environment
Physical demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.

The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.

On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders.

The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.

Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Occasional travel.
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