Assistant General Counsel

Responsibilities

• Advising senior management and providing clear recommendations on legal matters.
• Managing legal support of a business division or significant legal practice area through upervision of a team, or coordination of a network of attorneys, or serving as a subject matter expert.
• Implementing legal strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives; researching complex legal issues and reviewing and drafting complex legal documents.
• What You Have
• Risk Management : Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.
• Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.
• Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.
• Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.
• Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.
• Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking : Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
• Influencing : Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Discards examples of persuasive argument slacking substance or impact.
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.
• Negotiating : Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
• Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
• Details the risks of negotiation break down from each party's perspective.
• Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
• Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
• Detects and addresses lack of progressor a stalemate.
• Organizational Leadership : Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
• Level Working Knowledge:
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate& attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.
• Resource Management : Knowledge of the resources required to achieve business objectives; ability to plan, mobilize and distribute resources to fulfill business objectives and plans.
• Level Working Knowledge:
• Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison.
• Specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives.
• Surfaces opportunities to improve resource utilization.
• Initiates requests for required resources.
• Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably.
• Legal Analysis : Knowledge of methods and tools used in legal analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from both legal and factual information.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Anticipates and monitors the potential impact of legal decisions within the industry.
• Evaluates legal analysis issues from the perspective of regulatory

Additional Information

Job Summary Participates on Associate General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel's leadership team and provides legal support for a business division or legal practice area.

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