Junior Counsel

Who we are:

Nearly all aspects of our lives involve the use of technology. It is how we work and play and do anything in between. This connectivity or use of data is built into the very fabric of our society. It is vital to human progress. Vertiv believes there is a better way to meet this accelerating demand for data — one driven by passion and innovation.

As industry experts and Architects of Continuity, we collaborate with our customers to envision and build future-ready infrastructures. We leverage our portfolio of hardware, software, analytics, and services, to ensure our customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally, and scale with business needs.

Why Join Us?

• Meaningful and Fulfilling Work
• People-focused Values
• Global Talent Center
• Recharge Your Potential

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Analyzes and negotiates substantial commercial contracts, including master sales agreements for sales of products and services.
• Advises and actively coordinates activities relating to a wide variety of legal and commercial matters, including commercial contracts, business practices, policies, claims and litigation, and a smaller volume of trade, regulatory, governance, compliance, and human resources matters.
• Engages with business on field issues and potential claims early in the fact pattern, seeking to mitigate risk through early intervention, clear guidance, and “seeing around the corner.”
• Manages and directs outside counsel on above functions efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Leverages contractual rights and mitigates contractual risk to advance critical business outcomes as aligned with global strategic priorities.
• Provides recommendations to business leaders regarding legal requirements, best practices, commercial sales processes (including long-term systemization and scalability), and strategies for containing and mitigating overall risk. 
• Facilitates alignment with Vertiv counsel in EMEA and Americas regions on high-level approach to commercial terms in sales contracts. 
• Informs Senior Associate General Counsel and other members of the legal team on material matters promptly with recommended courses of action based on sound business and legal judgment.
• Guides and coordinates outside counsel on select mediation, arbitration, and litigation matters, and executes the requisite legal processes to effect the company’s rights, privileges, and obligations.
• Assists in analyzing federal sales opportunities with respect to with federal procurement laws and provides guidance to federal sales team regarding same.
• Assists in gathering and concisely summarizing contractual and commercial information for executive decision-making. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have a Juris doctorate (JD) degree.
• Active License to practice Law from an American Bar Association (ABA) approved institution. 
• Availability before and after traditional working hours. 
• Knowledge of several of the following areas: primarily commercial transactions, with some exposure to litigation, employment, corporate governance, and compliance issues.  Genuine appetite for learning areas of law that are less familiar.
• Routinely provide strategic commercial advice based on sound business and legal judgment.
• Excellent legal analysis, critical thinking, and spoken/written communication skills.
• Strong ability to interface and negotiate with outside counsel and business contacts (internal and external) at the highest levels.
• Demonstrated ability to recommend and advocate for certain legal and commercial courses of action based on legal requirements, contracts, and data, and to successfully influence decisionmakers accordingly.
• Adept at identifying important internal stakeholders and building consensus for well-informed, strategic initiatives relating to functions described above.
• Ability to effectively and accurately assess and balance risk when making business decisions.
• Works within designated budgets.