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Senior Legal Counsel - Corporate  

The Senior Legal Counsel – Corporate, located in Radnor, PA, will serve a critical role in supporting Nouryon’s global parent company with various legal issues. The Senior Counsel will manage sophisticated legal matters while interacting with senior business leadership and managers around the company, including the General Counsel and members of the C-Suite. This role will report to the Vice President, HSE Policy and Deputy General Counsel. 

 

At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.  

 

 In your future role as Senior Legal Counsel - Corporate you will

 

  • Provide legal support to Nouryon’s corporate legal function including supporting M&A, financing, corporate governance, and other corporate law matters.
  • Provide legal support to Nouryon’s Integrated Supply Chain, including Procurement, Operations, Real Estate and/or Human Resources on a variety of legal matters.
  • Provide legal services including the drafting and hands-on negotiation of a variety of commercial and other agreements and corporate documents.
  • Utilize legal knowledge to support international matters from time to time. 
  • Provide legal support for other matters as they arise.
  • Act with a high level of independence, while safeguarding the Company’s strategic objectives from a legal perspective.

 

We believe you bring

 

  • Strong academic credentials, including a J.D. or equivalent degree from a well-respected U.S. law school.
  • License to practice in at least one state.
  • 5+ years relevant working experience, with strong training at a national or international law firm. Prior in-house experience strongly preferred.
  • Broad exposure to multiple types of legal matters and areas of expertise.
  • Extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements and other legal documents (including sales and purchase contracts and distribution agreements).
  • Experience in supporting M&A transactions, including due diligence reviews and integration planning/implementation.
  • Solid dispute resolution experience and solid command of antitrust principles.
  • Experience in environmental, health and safety legal matters is a plus.
     

We believe you are...
 

  • Team Player - ability to work well and build relationships across all levels of the organization and be highly effective and able to maximize the efficiency of the legal department; have the desire to work on numerous and varied matters arising in an in-house legal department.
  • Results Oriented - action-oriented problem solver; commercially savvy and committed to getting into the details of a matter and managing it independently through to conclusion.
  • Intellectually Curious – Driven to learn, with a “can do” attitude and a strong desire to continue to grow and professionally develop in numerous different legal areas. Focused on improving the Company’s service, products, and processes, with ability to drive continuous improvement.
  • Business Focus - business-orientation with the ability to drive innovative solutions and strategies, and to appropriately balance risk with the need for the business to act.
  • Communicator – excellent communication and presentation skills, capability to scale support across a large organization and multiple jurisdictions.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and travel domestically and internationally, as required.
  • Outstanding legal reasoning and analysis and strategic thinking ability. Analytical and creative, with proven good judgment. Strong negotiation skills.
  • High energy with the highest levels of personal and professional integrity.
  • Ability to travel up to 15% with overnight stays. 

 

About Nouryon

 

We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today. 

 

If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment. 

 

Visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn.  

 

 

#WeAreNouryon #Changemakers 

 

We have already chosen our sourcing channels for this recruitment and kindly ask not to be contacted by any advertisement agents, recruitment agencies or staffing companies. 

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Vacancy data
Closing date
Open until further notice
Vacancy number
N0010132
Organization
Continent
North America
Country
United States
State/Region/Province
Pennsylvania
Site
Radnor
Business
Legal
Job characteristics
Job area
Legal
Hierarchy level
Management
Full time/part time
Fulltime
Contract type
Permanent

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