What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Counsel position at FOLLETT CORPORATION?
Position Overview
Join the Follett Team, where employees are valued, respected, and offered career paths throughout its many campus locations.
Follett serves over half of the students in the United States and works with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services, and print and digital content. We're higher education's largest campus retailer and a hub for school spirit and community as we operate nearly 1,200 local campus stores and over 1,600 virtual stores across the continent. We take pride in the fact that for more than 140 years, we have been helping to improve people's lives by supporting a lifetime of learning and education.
We are looking for a results-driven Senior Counsel to join the Follett team.
The Sr Councel's primary role and responsibility will be the provision of day-to-day counsel to Follett Higher Education Group, LLC, on general commercial contracting, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution matters. In addition, the role will require support for digital initiatives firm-wide.
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate various types of commercial agreements relating to the business (such as service agreements and license agreements); be a strategic partner with the business team as it works to develop new product and service offerings.
- Be expected to demonstrate meaningful, "hands-on" experience supporting the requirements of digital sales efforts.
- Liaise with operations, client support teams, and other in-house counsel.
- Provide the business team with advice on legal, regulatory, and governance issues.
- Special projects, supporting the business as it relates to legal issues, etc.