Senior Legal Counsel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Provide legal advice to business leaders throughout the Americas on legal risks, decision-making processes, and the execution of strategic objectives.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of complex agreements including those with customers, suppliers, service providers, subcontractors, channel partners, and technology firms.

• Create scalable processes for contract management that encompass playbooks, templates, and workflows.

• Offer guidance on tenders, conduct contract risk assessments, manage claims, oversee change orders, facilitate project execution, and promote dispute avoidance.

• Oversee litigation, arbitration, and pre-litigation claims, settlements, and external legal counsel, focusing on strategy, budgeting, reporting, and quality assurance.

• Advise on employment and human resources issues such as performance management, investigations, terminations, reorganizations, immigration, and matters affecting cross-border workforces.

• Provide strategic legal guidance on mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and global restructuring initiatives.

• Assist other divisions within ABB, business units, and corporate functions as necessitated by business requirements.

• Collaborate with ABB’s legal professionals across various divisions, countries, specialist teams, and regions, adhering to established coverage models and matter-allocation principles.

• Coordinate tasks, clarify matter ownership, and enhance shared legal capacity across ABB Electrification Service and other supported divisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with active bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction.

• At least 10 years of experience in-house or at a law firm supporting industrial, engineering, technology, construction, or services organizations across multiple legal disciplines and jurisdictions within a multinational setting.

• Proven ability to work independently in a highly collaborative environment while effectively partnering with divisional, business area, regional, country, and specialist legal counsel.

• Capability to manage competing priorities, clarify ownership and scope, and provide counsel to senior stakeholders under time constraints.

• Strong commercial acumen with significant experience in commercial contracts, disputes, strategic transactions, and cross-border issues.

• Proficient in identifying critical risks, developing practical solutions, supporting timely business decisions, and engaging specialists as necessary.

• Preferred experience with AI tools such as Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Harvey, or a demonstrated eagerness to learn and quickly gain AI proficiency.

• Comprehensive understanding of anti-bribery and anti-corruption regulations throughout the Americas, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

• Experience in supporting internal investigations.

• Familiarity with professional, contractor, electrical licensing, and related regulatory requirements in one or more jurisdictions in the Americas.

• Preferred working knowledge of employment and human resources law in one or more Americas jurisdictions.

• Must possess work authorization allowing employment with ABB in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

• Option to choose between two medical plans: PPO Copay Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account.

• Selection between two dental plans: Core and Core Plus.

• Vision benefits.

• Company-paid life insurance (2X base salary).

• Company-paid AD&D (1X base salary).

• Voluntary life and AD&D – fully employee-paid up to specified limits.

• Short Term Disability coverage for up to 26 weeks – company-paid.

• Long Term Disability benefits at 60% of salary – company-paid, with the option to purchase up to 66 2/3% of salary.

• Supplemental benefits including accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and pet insurance.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation, virtual health, and infertility/adoption.

• Employee discount program.

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions.

• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP).

• 11 paid holidays.

• Vacation under a flexible time-away policy for salaried exempt positions.