Senior Counsel - Indirect Procurement

Overview

This position is within the Legal Department and is held by a lawyer with strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective, and efficient legal services. Responsibilities include project management and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters related to sourcing indirect goods and services.

Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders of the Indirect Sourcing team to deliver effective legal services to clients.
• Review and negotiate a high volume of commercial vendor agreements, including:
  • MSAs
  • Statements of Work
  • License, Equipment, and Consulting Agreements
• Independently handle legal projects, matters, and issues with minimal supervision in most instances.
• Demonstrate project management capability, including mixed legal and business responsibility for contract and other matters the client group wants to pursue.
• Represent the organization and relevant client groups in the development, negotiation, and finalization of new indirect supplier contracts.
• Maintain existing contracts and provide support that may be integral to both legal and business negotiations.
• Provide business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations.
• Solve a range of straightforward problems by analyzing possible solutions and assessing them using standard procedures.
• Manage multiple matters simultaneously, multitask, and prioritize to ensure timely and efficient completion of work.
• Adapt effectively to change and shift gears comfortably.
• Seek out and accept developmental opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in contracts and commercial law.
• Demonstrated ability to support the full contract lifecycle for sourcing agreements, including:
  • intake
  • issue-spotting
  • negotiation support
  • redlining
  • stakeholder alignment
  • post-execution contract maintenance
• Law degree from an accredited law school.
• Admitted into the state bar.
• Experience level comparable to a senior associate or counsel, able to perform sophisticated work as an individual contributor with minimal guidance and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements

• Significant knowledge of indirect sourcing concepts, practices, contracts, and legal procedures.
• Ability and willingness to work with fast-paced procurement and business teams on reviews of new sourcing arrangements and updates to existing arrangements.
• Strong experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts.
• Working knowledge of corporate law litigation, anti-trust laws, privacy laws, and court and regulatory agency (FTC and FDA) procedures.
• Ability to supervise outside lawyers engaged on matters.
• Ability to build knowledge of the organization’s businesses and industry policies and practices.
• Extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues.
• Strong leadership, presentation, and organizational skills, including attention to detail.
• Ability to follow and interpret legal trends.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full time
• Salary Range: $119,100 - 186,560
  • This salary range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on locale.
  • Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision care, along with a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on physical, emotional, financial, and social wellness. Support may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave, along with training programs, professional development resources, mentorship opportunities, employee resource groups, and volunteer activities.

Location

Full time. Salary range may vary based on locale.