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Job Summary
Provides legal support for a business division or legal practice area.
What You Will Do
- Advising management and providing clear recommendations on legal matters and related risks.
- Providing legal support for a business division or significant legal practice area through supervision of a team, or coordination of a network of legal professionals, or serving as a subject matter expert.
- Researching complex legal issues and reviewing and drafting legal documents consistent with legal strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives.
What You Have
Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
- Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.
- Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.
- Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.
- Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.
- Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.
- Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
- Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
- Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
- Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
- Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
- Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
- Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
Resource Management: Knowledge of the resources required to achieve business objectives; ability to plan, mobilize and distribute resources to fulfill business objectives and plans.
- Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison.
- Specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives.
- Surfaces opportunities to improve resource utilization.
- Initiates requests for required resources.
- Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably.
Legal Analysis: Knowledge of methods and tools used in legal analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from both legal and factual information.
- Researches key criteria necessary for valid legal analysis.
- Follows procedures that help guide the evaluation of large scale implications and legal decisions.
- Participates in discussions with professionals in order to break down legal issues into understandable concepts.
- Selects legal documents and research tools to be utilized by the legal department.
- Interprets major types of legal analysis required by the organization.
Legal Function: Knowledge of the major responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of the legal function or department; ability to provide legal consulting, advice and assistance.
- Works with major units or sub-functions of the legal department.
- Monitors major current legal challenges, initiatives and issues.
- Works with common transactions and documents processed by the legal department.
- Explains the mission, vision and objectives of the legal function.
- Adheres to organizational standards and procedures for the legal department.
Top Candidates Will Also Have
- Experience in Multinational Organizations: Demonstrated success working within complex, global business environments.
- Strong Stakeholder Management Skills: Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions, regions, and leadership levels.
Additional Information
- This position requires working onsite five days a week.
