Legal Counsel Specialist
This job will entail a wide variety of work supporting Align’s LATAM Legal Team. If you're a professional who possesses expertise in a variety of areas of Law, as well as intellectual flexibility and versatility, solid business acumen and judgment, thoughtful, sensitive and persuasive interpersonal skills, this position might be for you!.
- Be an active and commercially minded business partner to the LATAM teams to continually identify strategic opportunities in intelligent risk-taking. Impeccable business and risk management judgment and ethics.
- Serve as primary point of contact for all legal matters within assigned business unit or area.
- Negotiate, draft and review an extensive range of contracts for assigned business unit or area.
- Review marketing collateral, pricing and promotional materials for compliance with all applicable laws and policies.
- Counsel, advise and train on general corporate legal matters within assigned business unit or area.
- Ensure compliance with Align’s contract management process and other company policies and procedures.
- Supervise, develop and mentor junior staff in legal department.
- Collaborate with global legal team to ensure consistency, efficiency and sharing of best practices.
- Conduct legal research and assist in other legal matters as and when needed.
- Confident team player and ability to develop relationships and networks at all levels. Enjoy working in a challenging fast-paced and dynamic workplace. Positive attitude.
- Provide Compliance training.
- Collaborate with members of Align’s LATAM Legal Team to analyze and advise Align’s business on complex legal/compliance issues that arise out of its LATAM operations.
- Protect Align’s brands at regional and local levels
- Structure and negotiate complex transactions, oversee outside counsel, and coordinate management of litigation.
- Support compliance and internal audit investigations and projects.
- 5+ years minimum post-degree experience, with top academic credentials andadmitted to practice law in Colombia.
- Experience of providing legal advice at a law firm, in-house, or combination of both.
- Experience working in a global, multinational company
- 10% travel required.
- Experience with advertising law, consumer protection laws, licensing and intellectual property laws, contracts, and business law.
- Ability to think critically and quickly resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
- Experience with state, national and international privacy laws and regulations, specifically how they relate to marketing and advertising efforts.
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including intellectual property licenses, vendor agreements, and complex marketing technology contracts.
- Ability to manage a significant workload and diverse teams, prioritize projects appropriately, and work independently.
- Experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Experience providing strategic and pragmatic legal advice in a highly-regulated environment.
- Analytical, verbal and written communication skills.