Senior Corporate Counsel, Enterprise Transactions Delivery, Law & Policy

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Summary This role oversees a global transactions delivery team responsible for drafting and negotiating certain transaction types, updating templates and fallback documents across transactions, and handling escalations for certain contract types. This leader ensures the team delivers with speed, quality, and consistency, while partnering closely with the Enterprise Transactions Transformation Lead's function to remain aligned with enterprise policy, risk tiering, and technology standards.

Oversight of Global Drafting & Negotiation Team Lead the global team responsible for drafting and negotiating assigned transaction types, ensuring speed, quality, and consistency across all deals. Set drafting and negotiation standards and playbooks for in-scope transaction types, in line with enterprise policy and risk tiering. Monitor team performance and quality of drafting and negotiation output, addressing gaps and coaching team members as needed. Partner with business stakeholders to ensure drafting and negotiation practices reflect real-world commercial needs. Oversight of Global Template & Fallback Maintenance Lead the team's ongoing review and updating of templates and fallback positions across assigned transaction types. Ensure templates and fallback language stay current with legal, regulatory, and business change. Coordinate template and fallback updates with the enterprise-level policy and process owners to ensure alignment with enterprise standards. Own version control and rollout of template and fallback updates across the global delivery team. Oversight of Escalation Handling Lead the team responsible for receiving, triaging, and resolving escalations for designated contract types. Ensure escalations are handled consistently with the enterprise risk tier structure and applicable controls. Track escalation volume, resolution time, and root causes, and use findings to inform process and template improvements. Partner with the Enterprise Transactions Transformation Lead's function on escalations that require enterprise-level policy or technology changes.

Leadership & Delivery Build, manage, and develop a global team, fostering collaboration and accountability across geographies. Ensure consistent quality and delivery speed across the team's drafting, negotiation, template, and escalation work. Lead technology implementation and adoption into legal transactional workflows. Partner with the Enterprise Transactions Transformation Lead's function to stay aligned with enterprise policy, tiering, and technology standards. Define and track team-level performance metrics and delivery goals.

Licensed to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction. JD Required 12+ years of experience in law firm and/or in-house roles, with substantial contract drafting and negotiation experience preferred. Experience managing legal delivery teams. Demonstrated success in leading teams handling legal support of enterprise transactions. Strong operational rigor, attention to detail, and ability to