[Hiring] Senior Legal Counsel, NA Commercial @Brambles

Role Description

Join a transforming North America legal team in a high-impact Senior Legal Counsel role, where you’ll partner directly with business leaders and shape how legal supports the organization.

• Provide reliable, cost-effective, and timely legal counsel to business units across a wide array of matters affecting the region and the global corporation.
• Advise on and negotiate commercial transactions, contracts, and agreements with key customers, vendors, and service providers, ensuring alignment with business goals and legal standards.
• Offer strategic legal guidance on major transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a focus on identifying risks and conducting necessary due diligence.
• Manage day-to-day legal issues for business operations, including matters related to plant operations, logistics, asset management, and real estate (e.g., leases, property agreements).
• Anticipate, mitigate, and manage legal risks by providing proactive legal strategies and monitoring emerging legal trends that may impact the business.
• Lead the company’s litigation strategy, manage disputes, and handle intellectual property rights issues, leveraging external counsel when necessary.
• Support the development of company policy, operational improvements, and procedural enhancements by providing legal insights on regulatory compliance and business operations.
• Research and monitor evolving legal issues, using external counsel where needed, to provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction or Canada jurisdiction.
• Bachelor's Degree and qualification from an accredited law school.
• Significant in-house and law firm experience handling complex commercial transactions and customer contracting.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
• Experience supporting fast-paced operating environments, preferably in industrial, logistics, manufacturing, equipment, or service-based businesses.
• Strong judgment, executive presence, and ability to work cross-functionally with non-legal stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills and the ability to advise business teams in a practical, solution-oriented manner.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years post qualification experience.
• Experience in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and managing commercial contracts with a customer-centric mindset.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model for maximizing work-life balance and flexibility.

Skills and Knowledge

• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills.
• Business acumen as applied to commercial contracts and disputes.
• Strong 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.
• Must be able to work autonomously.
• Dynamic, energetic, positive.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in creating or improving process and automation for the efficient and effective delivery of legal services.
• Experience working with digital technology such as AI tools and systems to support the efficient and effective delivery of legal services.
• Experience working in a global company.
• Experience in matrixed environments.

Languages

• Essential: English.
• Desirable: Spanish.

Remote Type

• Fully Remote.

Skills to succeed in the role

• Coaching.
• Cross-Functional Work.
• Disruptive Thinking.
• Emotional Intelligence.
• Feedback.
• General Corporate Counsel.
• Inclusive Leadership.
• Influencing.
• Intellectual Property Protection.
• Leading Change.
• Leading Customer Centric Teams.
• Legal Risk.
• Legal Strategies.
• Mentorship.
• Prioritization.
• Regulatory Compliance.
• Risk Management.
• Strategic Thinking.