What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Counsel, North America position at CHEP?
The Legal Counsel, North America, will provide a wide range of legal advice and counsel for Brambles and CHEP across North America, including managing contractual matters, disputes and litigation and compliance.
Primary point of contact for all operational legal issues related to the CHEP business in the USA. Anticipate and guard against legal risks facing the USA business. Contribute to the development of company policy and positions on legal issues.
Scope: Primarily, but not exclusively North America
Key Accountabilities:
Support the North America business units and functional areas, especially including the Sales, Retail, Supply Chain, Finance, Real Estate, and teams in connection with pallet and operational matters, in the management of day-to-day legal issues.
- Provide commercial and pragmatic legal counsel to the business units across a broad range of matters affecting the region and the corporation as a whole, providing reliable, cost-effective and timely legal advice and support
- Provide strategic legal counsel to all Brambles functional groups
- Support the country business units in the management of day-to-day legal issues
- Advise on a wide variety of commercial transactions with key customers and vendors for all business lines; draft and negotiate required contractual documentation•
- Advise on and negotiate agreements to facilitate plant operations, logistics, asset management, real property matters, especially plant development, agreements for lease and leasing matters•
- Leading and supporting major transactions including M&A activity. Ability to identify areas of risk and requirements for additional due diligence
- Anticipate, mitigate and guard against legal risks facing the company
- Research - utilizing external counsel as warranted - emerging legal issues to develop pragmatic business guidance.
- Provide legal counsel on issues arising from actual or anticipated lawsuits.
- Contribute to the development of company policy and position on legal issues.
- Develop and recommend of operating policy and procedural improvements.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Degree from an accredited law school
- Qualified and in good standing at the bar in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
Desirable:
- Experience with Supply Chain/Logistics Company
- Experience with IP laws in US and Internationally
- Experience with Privacy laws and Technology transactions
Experience:
- 6 years post qualification experience
- Experience in platform liability, intellectual property, regulatory and compliance schemes relating to digital platforms, customer/third party agreements and procurement agreements.
- Experience in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and managing commercial contracts with a digital technology and customer-centric mindset.
Skills & Knowledge
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills.
- Business acumen as applied to commercial contracts and disputes.
- Extraordinary work ethic, coupled with superior multi-tasking capabilities.
- Knowledge of commercial contracts and dispute resolution practices is essential.
- Must be a team player, and highly approachable.
- Strong interpersonal, presentational and networking skills
- Strong analytical and technical legal skills – including drafting, negotiating, risk mitigation and problem resolution
- Team player but able to work autonomously
- Dynamic, energetic, positive
- Prior in-house or large law firm experience preferred
- Familiarity with employment, litigation and real estate law a plus
- Familiarity with logistics and supply chain industries a plus
