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Corporate Counsel

Dealer Tire
Posted Mar 21
Full Time
Cleveland, Ohio

Title: Corporate Counsel Reports To: Director of Legal Services FLSA Status: Exempt Date Prepared: 01/25/2024

As Corporate Counsel, your essential job functions will include the following:

  • Structure, draft, negotiate, and counsel on a variety of commercial contracts including vendor and customer contracts, SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs and other contracts involving a variety of complex legal and business issues.
  • Interpret and effectively explain nuanced contractual terms, conditions, rights and obligations to business teams.
  • Provide strategic legal advice and transaction management at all phases of the commercial contracting process;
  • Act as the point of contact for all internal business unit questions regarding contracts.
  • Proactively identify trends in relevant legal issues to strategically mitigate risk across the contract portfolio.
  • Develop, manage and leverage processes, documents, and forms to standardize practices and otherwise promote efficiency.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

  • A minimum of ten (10) years of the practice of law in the areas of commercial transactions with some in-house experience.
  • Comfortable using common technology for contract creation and management, including the Microsoft Office suite.
  • Must have a J.D. from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).
  • Must be admitted to practice law in the state of Ohio or ability to gain corporate counsel.
  • Experience with contract management software solutions.
  • Strong oral, writing and negotiating skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Experience advising clients on compliance and data privacy matters is a plus, but not required.

Competencies Required

  • Initiative
  • Influence
  • Time and Productivity Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Results Orientation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Creative Problem Solver
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Organizational Agility
  • Learning Agility

Physical Job Requirements

  • Continuous viewing from and inputting data to a computer screen.
  • Sitting for long periods of time.

Drug Policy

  • Dealer Tire is a drug-free environment. All applicants being considered for employment must pass a pre-employment drug screening before beginning work.
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