What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Claims and Contracts Management Specialist position at The Lubrizol Corporation?
Job Title: Legal Claims and Contracts Management Specialist
Job Location: Wickliffe, OH
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: Hybrid
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, managing litigation and related matters for the company, assist in the negotiation and drafting of contracts, and manage other discrete matters handled by the company’s Legal Team. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.
What We're Looking For
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS
Job Location: Wickliffe, OH
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: Hybrid
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, managing litigation and related matters for the company, assist in the negotiation and drafting of contracts, and manage other discrete matters handled by the company’s Legal Team. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.
What We're Looking For
- Assists senior Legal Team attorneys in directing strategy for litigation matters and other disputes to which the company is a party.
- For filed matters, maintains responsibility for U.S. litigation discovery process, managing written discovery, document review and production, and overseeing electronic discovery procedures.
- Oversees and directs the company’s response to all subpoenas.
- Manages outside counsel to ensure implementation of strategy and monitors the progress of litigation matters, working at the direction of senior Legal Team attorneys.
- Negotiates, prepares, and reviews sales and procurement contracts at the direction and under the supervision of senior Legal Team attorneys.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Procurement and Sales teams to understand contract needs, goals, and risks involved.
- Develops metrics to demonstrate performance of the Contracts team to ensure efficiency and identify improvement opportunities, providing necessary reports to senior Legal Team attorneys.
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university and JD or equivalent law degree required.
- 2 years assisting in the handling of litigation matters and disputes at a corporate law firm or in-house corporate legal department, demonstrating a broad array of experience in matters affecting a large and diversified company.
- Experience drafting and negotiating contracts.
- Candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced environment to ensure that the company's litigation and contracts are managed in a timely and efficient manner that is consistent with the company's strategic goals.
- Candidate must be flexible and able to work with multiple internal/external attorneys, sales professionals, and procurement professionals in multiple practice areas.
- Fluent in oral and written English, and skillful in MS office (Words, Excel, Power Point, Outlook etc.).
- Self-starter with highly effective organizational skills and ability to handle confidential matters.
- Must be open and able to travel as needed to serve as company representative in litigation matters.
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
- 401k Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
- Competitive medical, dental and vision offerings
- Health Savings Account
- Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS
