Senior Counsel
Vertiv Corporation

Westerville, Ohio

Posted in Manufacturing and Production


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Vertiv's legal team seeks a dynamic, business-minded attorney to provide guidance to business leaders in a generalist Senior Counsel / Counsel role. This role interacts directly with sales, service, and other business leaders and reports to Vertiv's Senior Associate General Counsel for Americas. Ideal candidates are as comfortable providing strategic advice on commercial sales transactions and processes as they are with linear legal analysis. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the company's long-term approach to systematizing legal risk using scalable processes and tools. Excellent critical thinking and spoken/written communication skills are required. Ideal candidates are self-aware, emotionally intelligent attorneys with five to seven years' experience as a full-time lawyer at a reputable firm or corporation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Analyzes and negotiates substantial commercial contracts, including master sales agreements for sales of products and services.
  • Advises and actively coordinates activities relating to a wide variety of legal and commercial matters, including commercial contracts, business practices, policies, claims and litigation, and a smaller volume of trade, regulatory, governance, compliance, and human resources matters.
  • Engages with business on field issues and potential claims early in the fact pattern, seeking to mitigate risk through early intervention, clear guidance, and "seeing around the corner."
  • Manages and directs outside counsel on above functions efficiently and cost-effectively.
  • Leverages contractual rights and mitigates contractual risk to advance critical business outcomes as aligned with global strategic priorities.
  • Provides recommendations to business leaders regarding legal requirements, best practices, commercial sales processes (including long-term systemization and scalability), and strategies for containing and mitigating overall risk.
  • Facilitates alignment with Vertiv counsel in EMEA and APAC regions on high-level approach to commercial terms in sales contracts.
  • Informs Senior Associate General Counsel and other members of the legal team on material matters promptly with recommended courses of action based on sound business and legal judgment.
  • Guides and coordinates outside counsel on select mediation, arbitration, and litigation matters, and executes the requisite legal processes to affect the company's rights, privileges, and obligations.
  • Assists in analyzing federal sales opportunities with respect to with federal procurement laws and provides guidance to federal sales team regarding same.
  • Assists in gathering and concisely summarizing contractual and commercial information for executive decision-making.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

This role does not have any direct reports. Senior Counsel / Counsel will work with the Contracts Manager for Americas and various Contract Administrators.

INTERACTIONS:

Reports to Senior Associate General Counsel for Americas. Interacts with global and Americas management teams, outside legal counsel, global and regional legal teams (including global compliance and intellectual property counsel, and regional contracts manager and contract administrators), various sales and service vice presidents, directors, managers, and employees at all levels.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Knowledge of several of the following areas: primarily commercial transactions, with some exposure to litigation, employment, corporate governance, and compliance issues. Genuine appetite for learning areas of law that are less familiar.
  • Routinely provide strategic commercial advice based on sound business and legal judgment.
  • Excellent legal analysis, critical thinking, and spoken/written communication skills.
  • Strong ability to interface and negotiate with outside counsel and business contacts (internal and external) at the highest levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to recommend and advocate for certain legal and commercial courses of action based on legal requirements, contracts, and data, and to successfully influence decisionmakers accordingly.
  • Adept at identifying important internal stakeholders and building consensus for well-informed, strategic initiatives relating to functions described above.
  • Ability to effectively and accurately assess and balance risk when making business decisions.
  • Works within designated budgets.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
  • A juris doctorate (J.D.) degree and active license to practice law (in good standing).
  • At least three years of experience as a practicing attorney.
POSITION ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
  • Occasional travel may be required to assist business teams on matters relating to functions described above. Availability before and after traditional working hours as needed.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
  • Customer Focus
  • Operational Excellence
  • High-Performance Culture
  • Innovation
  • Financial Strength
OUR BEHAVIORS
  • Own It
  • Act With Urgency
  • Foster a Customer-First Mindset
  • Think Big and Execute
  • Lead by Example
  • Drive Continuous Improvement
  • Learn and Seek Out Development
At Vertiv, we offer the stability of a global leader in a growing industry and the opportunity of a startup. We design, manufacture and service the mission-critical infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial environments. With $4.4 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach in nearly 70 countries, our move to establish a standalone business enables us to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertivco.com

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.


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