Senior Legal Counsel

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

Within HPE, our Operations, Legal and Admin teams work across the business, providing visible accountability and measurable outcomes. With a variety of roles and responsibilities these teams really connect the dots, giving us the essential insights, support and capability to accelerate our transformation to be the world’s edge to cloud company. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

Job Family Definition:

Acts as primary legal support to regional and country management, business units and functions for sales and marketing, distribution, supply chain, and operations. Provides legal subject matter expertise for commercial, antitrust, employment, real estate, pensions, company secretarial, post-acquisition merger and acquisition (M&A), litigation, and local regulatory compliance matters. Provides first-line support for all US extra-territorial regulatory compliance. Participates in senior regional and country management teams. Provides institutional knowledge, support, and fiduciary oversight in relation to corporate and local governance standards, policies, process, and reporting requirements. Manages local external legal counsel and associated budgets.

Management Level Definition:

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function.

What you’ll do:

Responsibilities:

• Manages the development of legal strategies for local or regional senior management, including leading high value/risk commercial transactions and program review, drafting, and negotiation.
• Develops and recommends innovative process improvements to effectively address business needs of an aligned country or region.
• Identifies and resolves highly complex local/regional legal, regulatory, and business issues.
• Manages legal responsibilities for multiple client organizations with divergent priorities and needs.
• Leads complex, multidimensional projects or transactions.
• May act as sole country counsel; serves as the primary legal contact for local or regional management and coordinates activity with corporate, regional, and other country resources.
• Acts as a master of the local/regional environment by advising on complex laws and regulations and their implications for the local/regional operations/businesses.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB).
• Company Secretary degree (CS).
• Meets local legal license requirements.
• Typically 10+ years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.
• Significant experience managing multiple, complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Mastery of legal and relevant business knowledge in multiple practices areas in a country/region.
• Broad and deep knowledge of local/regional laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Developed awareness of how to operate successfully in multiple international legal environments.
• Mastery in negotiating or advising senior representatives of external and internal organizations on complex and high value/risk matters.
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
• English language skills to business standard required.

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Conflict Resolution, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Law, Legal Consulting, Legal Practices, Legal Risk, Legal Support, Long Term Planning {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Legal

Job Level:

Master

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.