Hybrid Legal Counsel, Contracts Attorney

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About the role

  • In-house corporate attorney at Belk managing commercial contracts. Leading negotiation and compliance efforts across business areas with a focus on strategic legal advice and collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Independently lead, negotiate, draft, and review commercial contracts across Belk’s business
  • Take ownership of the contracts/negotiation process, legal/business projects, and other legal/business needs to drive items to execution
  • Provide strategic, practical legal advice to executives and their teams
  • Lead multiple stakeholders through business, legal, corporate communications, and corporate governance issues
  • Assist in the development, and maintenance of Belk’s contract compliance program
  • Build positive cross-functional partnerships with internal business partners

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school
  • Must be licensed and able to practice law in the state of NC
  • License must be in good standing
  • Must comply with annual CLE requirements for maintaining license to practice law
  • Minimum of 3 years of transactional legal practice required
  • Experience as an in-house transactional attorney with experience negotiating and drafting commercial contracts preferred
  • Experience drafting and negotiating intellectual property, privacy, and data security terms preferred
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) certification preferred
  • Proficient in prioritization, flexibility, and working under deadlines to deliver legal services in a timely manner

Benefits

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills along with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal and external partners to drive business results
  • Strong work ethic, prudent judgment, and ability to manage risk and internal compliance and control policy enforcement

Job title

Legal Counsel, Contracts Attorney

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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