Senior Legal Counsel – NA Litigation, Employment

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🤠 Texas – Remote

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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CHEP

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

Transport • Sustainability

CHEP is a global leader in supply chain management, offering pallet and container pooling solutions. The company provides high-quality wooden and plastic pallets for industries, automobile supply chains, and retail environments. With a focus on sustainability, CHEP operates a circular economy model, reusing and recycling containers to minimize waste and reduce carbon footprints. They maintain a vast network of service centers and facilitate efficient, sustainable logistics for some of the world's largest companies, leveraging their extensive reach to enhance supply chain efficiency and collaboration worldwide.

📋 Description

• Provide reliable, cost-effective, and timely legal counsel to business units across a wide array of matters affecting the region and the global corporation. • Advise on and negotiate commercial transactions, contracts, and agreements with key customers, vendors, and service providers, ensuring alignment with business goals and legal standards. • Offer strategic legal guidance on major transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a focus on identifying risks and conducting necessary due diligence. • Manage day-to-day legal issues for business operations, including matters related to plant operations, logistics, asset management, and real estate (e.g., leases, property agreements). • Anticipate, mitigate, and manage legal risks by providing proactive legal strategies and monitoring emerging legal trends that may impact the business. • Support the company’s litigation strategy, manage disputes, and handle intellectual property rights issues, leveraging external counsel when necessary. • Support the development of company policy, operational improvements, and procedural enhancements by providing legal insights on regulatory compliance and business operations.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction or Canada jurisdiction • Bachelor's Degree and qualification from an accredited law school • Strong required expertise in: Employment law • Litigation and dispute strategy • Experience managing outside counsel and complex disputes • Strong judgment in handling privileged, sensitive, and reputationally significant matters • Strong judgment, executive presence, and ability to work cross-functionally with non-legal stakeholders • Strong cross-functional partnership skills and the ability to advise business teams in a practical, solution-oriented manner. • At least 8+ years post-qualification experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Employed approximately 13,000 people in 60 countries • International organization with a focus on sustainability • Empowerment to bring your authentic self to work • Opportunity for work-life balance and flexibility through Hybrid Work Model