VP, Legal

Overview

This role provides in-house legal support focused on labor and employment matters, partnering with Human Resources and assisting the General Counsel to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies. Responsibilities also include supervising outside counsel and drafting and negotiating certain commercial agreements.

Responsibilities

• Assist the General Counsel and Human Resources with the management and handling of labor and employment related matters.
• Provide in-house legal counsel on labor and employment issues, which may include:
  • Human resources issues
  • Wage and hour law
  • Workers’ compensation
  • Unemployment and other state agency claims
  • Labor relations
  • Employee benefits
  • Employment agreements and policy-related issues
  • FMLA matters
  • Employment-related litigation
  • Grievances and arbitrations
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
• Supervise, manage, and evaluate outside counsel for employment-related matters, including litigation.
• Educate internal clients and stakeholders on legal matters, policies, and procedures.
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with customers.
• Develop customer-centric solutions that ensure legal compliance while meeting internal and external customer needs.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented approach with the ability to balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects under deadline pressure.
• Ability to deliver in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

Strategic Planning

• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges.
• Recommend process, product, or service improvements.
• Solve unique and complex problems with broad business impact.
• Evaluate situations or data requiring consideration of intangibles.
• Contribute to functional strategy development.
• Make decisions within functional, business unit, company, or industry guidelines.
• Develop innovative concepts, services, technologies, or products to address current and future customer requirements.
• Operate with limited supervision in a complex environment.

Customer Focus

• Anticipate customer needs to influence the development of innovative solutions.
• Communicate highly complex ideas to multiple organizational levels.
• Work effectively across the organization to build broad acceptance for ideas and initiatives.

Education

• Juris Doctorate degree (or equivalent) from an ABA accredited law school.
• Licensed in good standing to practice law in at least one State.

Experience

• 6+ years’ experience in prior in-house counsel roles with a focus on labor and employment law required.
• Current member of the bar or able to be admitted to the in-house counsel bar.
• Experience negotiating and drafting a variety of agreements, including customer terms relating to services and data and information technology.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $120-$160K/yr (base pay may vary by location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience).
• A discretionary incentive program may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Full range of medical and other benefits, dependent on full-time employment status.

Location

• Location is not specified.