Associate General Counsel – Commercial and Government Contracts

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Illinois, +1 more states – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $198k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Regal Rexnord

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2021

⚡ Energy

🔧 Hardware

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-01

Manufacturing • Energy • Hardware

Regal Rexnord is a leading global manufacturer of powertrain solutions, focusing on the efficient transformation of power into motion. The company offers a diverse product range, including electric motors, couplings, bearings, gearing, and industrial chains, which are integral to critical applications across multiple sectors. Emphasizing sustainable solutions, Regal Rexnord engineers products that enhance energy efficiency and performance, aiming to create a better tomorrow through innovative technologies. With operations spanning continents, the company is committed to achieving significant reductions in its carbon footprint by 2050, underpinning its leadership in industrial powertrain systems.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary day-to-day legal advisor to the AMC segment and as second-in-command to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC. • Act as a trusted legal and business partner to segment leadership, sales, supply chain, quality, operations, and engineering teams. • Lead and support negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of customer, supplier, distributor, and strategic commercial agreements including large, cross-division and cross-segment agreements. • Advise on contract structure, pricing, risk allocation, liability, warranty, quality, delivery, indemnification, and termination provisions. • Support contract execution and lifecycle management, including active enforcement of contract rights on pricing, IP, delivery, and quality obligations. • Lead and support commercial enforcement matters, including collections on overdue customer payments and enforcement of contractual rights through demand letters and escalation. • Advise on and support alignment of customer contract risk with downstream supply chain obligations. • Provide guidance to and support the contract specialist team to drive consistency, efficiency, and adherence to standard processes and playbooks. • Support commercial and operational matters involving aerospace, defense, and government-facing customers across AMC's five divisions. • Partner with Trade Compliance, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, and Operations teams to address regulatory, export controls, sanctions, CMMC compliance, and other trade-related considerations impacting government and defense programs. • Serve as first-line legal advisor on segment-related commercial disputes, claims, quality issues, warranty matters, supply chain disruptions, and customer escalations. • Collaborate with EHS, Quality, Trade Compliance, Real Estate, and other functional teams on legal issues impacting operations, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives. • Identify recurring risks, inefficiencies, or friction points and drive improvements in contract templates, processes, and legal workflows. • Design and deliver training and business education to reduce reactive legal exposure.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, with strong and effective drafting skills and significant responsibility for customer and supplier contracting. • JD from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. • Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or government-facing manufacturing businesses is required. • Demonstrated understanding of the government contracting ecosystem, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-downs, audits, and the legal risks of operating as a government supplier. • Experience advising on commercial matters, including disputes, quality issues, warranty claims, EHS-related matters, and operational risk. • Experience in a publicly traded or highly regulated environment preferred. • Excellent judgment, discretion, and risk assessment. • Practical business acumen, driving pragmatic business-oriented solutions. • A highly approachable, collegial, and collaborative approach. • Accountable and proactive self-starter, comfortable working independently. • Superb organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage • Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA) • Paid Time Off and Holidays • 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance • Paid Leaves • Tuition Assistance