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The Senior Corporate Counsel, Mexico Legal Lead will be based in Guadalajara, MX reporting to the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel - Global Operations & Supply Chain.
The Senior Corporate Counsel will lead the Mexico legal team and be a business partner for the Mexico Operations and Supply Chain leaders of 8 sites and ~42,000 employees.
This role is essentially a country general counsel assisting with variety of day-to-day operational issues as well as strategic guidance and ability to add global value for the company.
What a typical day looks like:
- Lead 4-5 person legal team with responsibilities spanning supply chain agreement negotiation, operational issues, litigation/outside counsel management, real estate, facilities, regulatory, and corporate/entity management.
- Manage negotiation, drafting, and escalation of foreign and domestic transactions covering manufacturing services, procurement of materials, intellectual property, warranty, indemnity, inventory, and financing issues.
- Collaborate with Trade, Government Relations, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, IT, Labor & Employment to resolve day to day issues.
- Work across borders, time zones and cultures with a cross functional group of stakeholders.
- Explain complex topics in clear, easy to comprehend manner with executive-level internal clients.
- Develop and provide legal training to internal clients, assist in Global Account manager enhancement programs, Diversity and Inclusion programs, talent development, etc.
- This job description may not represent all the duties of the position; you may be asked to perform other related duties as needed.
- Licensed Attorney. Requires a Juris Doctor (J.D.) Degree or a Bachelor of Law degree and Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree.
- Typically requires 10-15 years of related experience.
- Fluent in Spanish and English. (CVs required in English Format)
- Experience in providing legal assistance to executive-level clients in an international manufacturing environment preferred.
- Experience building, developing, leading high-performance teams.
- Prefer subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas: Supply Chain, Litigation, Labor & Employment, Trade, or Government Relations.
- Competitive Salary.
- Life & Medical insurance.
- Christmas Bonus.
- Food Coupons.
- Saving Fund.
Job Category
Legal
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