Counsel, Commercial Contracts
Motive
Senior Manager, Legal Counsel
adidas
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Oregon
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Senior
About the role
- Provide comprehensive strategic legal, business, and negotiation advice across multiple touch points in the organization, focusing on Human Resources and Procurement.
- Act as a strategic business partner and advisor on employment law matters and commercial agreements with third parties.
- Provide timely, accurate, and comprehensive advice on employment law issues.
- Manage employment litigation and agency claims.
- Negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial contracts, focusing on non-trade procurement agreements.
- Provide expert legal guidance and advice on a wide variety of commercial relationships.
- Draft related policies and procedures and conduct training on employment laws and best practices.
- Collaborate with Human Resources, Procurement, GL&C Team, external partners and law firms.
Requirements
- University degree and Juris Doctor degree
- 3-5 years of professional working experience in a law firm or in-house legal department with employment law background
- Deep knowledge of employment laws
- Extensive experience negotiating and drafting legal agreements
- Ability to manage and prioritize substantial and diverse workload
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and under pressure
- Cooperative, team-oriented approach with ability to excel within a highly collaborative team
- Professional, approachable with extensive cross-functional and intercultural experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate company values for inclusive and respectful culture of belonging
- Working language: English
