Senior Corporate Counsel

Stanley Consultants, Inc is currently seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel for one of our following offices: Chicago IL, Denver CO, Minneapolis MN, Muscatine IA, or Phoenix AZ.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Corporate Counsel will provide senior-level expertise and leadership, and will provide counsel to operations and sales, acting as a legal advisor and business partner to senior and executive leadership. This position will work directly with the Chief Legal Officer and the executive leadership team, its Market Leaders, Sales and Practice and Performance professionals to enable the company’s growth objectives through support of their sales, operations, and compliance functions. This role requires a seasoned legal professional with a strong business acumen, exceptional analytical skills, and the ability to navigate complex legal landscapes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

Complex Contract Negotiations

• Lead the legal support of transactional matters, and in particular the commercial transactions supporting the company’s operations across its Markets (e.g., Transportation, Energy, Water and Federal Markets).
• Lead and oversee the negotiation and drafting of a broad range of complex business agreements, (including client contracts, bid agreements, joint venture agreements, teaming agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and sub-consultancy agreements, and in particular, agreements in support of design-build and other alternate delivery arrangements).
• Assist with the development of proposals, including review of Requests for Qualifications/Requests for Proposals.
• Ensure that contractual terms are in line with the company’s interests and risk tolerance.

Risk Management and Mitigation

• Work with the leadership team, to lead, develop, oversee and monitor operational risk management activities across the enterprise, including methodologies, tools and training to ensure that project risks are appropriately identified, measured and managed.
• Seek ways to optimize risk, identifying and managing both opportunity and threat across the company’s portfolio by working closely with the senior leadership team to risk assess and de-risk/risk services and procurement/delivery approaches.
• Work closely with the senior leadership team to ensure consistent and cohesive risk-based approaches across the enterprise.
• In partnership with CLO, develop and deliver engaging training on risk management through contracting best practices, policies, and legal/regulatory trends relevant to the company educate the organization on compliance best-practices and serve as a resource for identifying and mitigating risk across the organization.

Insurance Program Management

• • Play a key role in the annual renewal and administration of the company’s insurance programs.
  • Engage with internal colleagues to obtain required underwriting data for placement of both corporate and project-specific insurance policies.
  • Support pursuit teams’ evaluation and use of project-specific insurance needs.
  • Manage communications with insurers, brokers, and other service providers.

Claims and Litigation Management

• Aid CLO and the enterprise with respect to programs to help minimize litigation and third-party disputes.
• Oversee and manage litigation matters, working closely with external counsel.
• Develop and implement strategies for dispute resolution and risk mitigation.

Corporate Governance and Legal Department Operations

• Company secretarial functions, convening and providing administration for subsidiary company board of directors and shareholders meetings ensuring good management of the company and compliance with legislation.
• In partnership with the CLO, develop, timely update, and maintain responsibility for continuous improvement of legal processes, standard contract templates, and tools.
• In partnership with the CLO, oversee administration of department operations in area of professional license, corporate licensing, and contract administration.
• In partnership with the CLO, manage the evolution of our contract review and approval processes.

Mentorship and Collaboration

• Provide oversight of the paralegal team responsible for legal entity management (including support of entity formation, maintenance and compliance, and merger and dissolution processes) and professional licensing issues.
• Supervise, guide and manage current members in administrative assistant and paralegal roles.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior legal team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate legal considerations into business.

Other/Miscellaneous

• Support M&A, including deal structuring, negotiating, planning, and assisting in due diligence, drafting, and negotiating deal documents and actively managing deal process and execution.

JUDGEMENT AND INITIATIVE:

Usually involves complex work in many areas or functions that are beyond the scope of standard procedures. Decisions may affect the creation or modification of policies or the achievement of strategic goals.

MANAGERIAL SCOPE:

May serve as acting head of legal department when Chief Legal Officer is absent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The successful candidate would have a proven track record of:

• Confident leadership paired with emotional intelligence, and flexibility.
• Professional services and design engineering contract lifecycle mastery, including drafting and negotiating complex agreements.
• Experience in Federal Government Contracting.
• Excellent judgment with the ability to balance competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Good business acumen, and a practical approach designed to balance competing business and risk management priorities.
• Effective communication and presentation skills that are effective at all levels in the company.
• Ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders toward consensus.
• Ability to deliver unwelcome news in an appropriate and diplomatic manner.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, focused on getting things done, not on taking credit; and building trust with important clients and stakeholders.
• Ability to lead by example and upholding proper business ethics standards as set forth in the company’s Consultants Code of Business Conduct.

EDUCATION:

• Ten or more years of legal practice experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department for a major company
• Ten or more years of experience advising on agreements involving engineering, and consulting professional service agreements, design-build, construction, design, program management, and construction management contracts, and other similar transactions.
• JD from a top-tier accredited law school
• While formal degrees outside of law are not a requirement for the job, engineering acumen developed through prior experience or via an undergraduate or graduate degree/concentration would be a major plus for the role.

CERTIFICATIONS:  None

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  Ability to travel. Ability to think, write and make clear oral presentations.

Base Compensation: $150,000-$200,000

Stanley Consultants is committed to maintaining transparency in our hiring process, including providing information about compensation. The starting salary for the successful candidate in this position is competitive and will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications and experience, geographic location, internal equity, company policy and practices.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a company that is committed to innovative growth and improving lives in the communities where we live and work? Stanley Consultants is an award winning, interdisciplinary consulting firm providing program management, planning, design, permitting, engineering, and environmental services. Recognized for its commitment to client service and a passion to make a difference, Stanley Consultants brings global knowledge, experience, and capabilities to serve federal, municipal, and industrial clients. Stanley Consultants solves complex challenges in power generation and delivery, transportation, water, energy, and industrial plants, building services, and the environment. Since 1913, Stanley Consultants has successfully completed more than 50,000 projects globally in more than 100 countries, including all 50 of the United States and its territories.

Throughout our history, Stanley Consultants has remained an employee-owned company, committed to a legacy of professional independence and objectivity. The commitment to private ownership, shared responsibility and reward has sustained us for more than 100 years.

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