HPEFS Legal Leader APJ

HPEFS Legal Leader APJ

  

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

Job Description:

   

Job Family Definition:

Acts as legal advisor to assigned internal clients or other company attorneys with respect to matters related to the area of specialty. Identifies legal risk and recommends solutions that help address the client’s objectives. Represents company in transactions, interactions, or disputes with customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. Balances the business interests of client groups with ultimate fiduciary responsibility to company. Represents the company before industry policy setting organizations, government agencies, and other regulatory bodies. Areas of law practiced may include intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities law, litigation, employment, structured financial deals, US government contracting, outsourcing, environmental, employee benefits, or bankruptcy.

Management Level Definition:

Leads a large or broad function/department within a multifaceted organization. Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Responsible for one or more recognized professional disciplines. Fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department. Influences strategy and sets policy and direction. Owns a significant number of measurable functional, operational and strategic goals or priorities. Assumes responsibility for the successful implementation of business plans in a defined area of responsibility. Contributes to the overall strategic definition of a function with strong business acumen. Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business. Typically reports to VP.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the overall legal strategies and risks by providing expertise in one or more critical, highly specialized and/or complex areas with company-wide impact.
• Plans and facilitates the training and mentoring strategy to educate senior managers, team members and clients on complex topics within a specific legal concentration.
• Leads the resolution of the company's most critical, highest impact and often high visibility legal, regulatory, and business issues requiring the most in-depth and specialized knowledge and judgment.
• Acts as a thought leader in the local/regional environment by advising on highly complex laws and regulations, with far-reaching implications, for the local/regional operations/businesses as well as company-wide.
• Exerts influence on external industry counsels, policies, and regulatory bodies in area of specialization.

Education and Experience Required:

• Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB); additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred.
• Meets local legal license requirements.
• Typically 12+ years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.
• Extensive national and possibly international experience leading multiple, highly complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Recognized authority on practical and academic knowledge within a specific legal concentration, and broad internal recognition as a subject matter expert and thought leader in one or more sub-areas within the specific legal concentration.
• Advanced mastery of how to operate successfully in the international legal environment for the specific legal concentration.
• Mastery in negotiating or advising the most senior representatives of external and internal organizations on highly complex, high impact legal matters in a specialty.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, networking, and influence skills.
• English language skills to business standard required.

Impact/Scope:

• Scope includes managing the overall risk for an entire large global or regional business or leading complex commercial transactions.
• Impact includes providing specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of strategic importance to the company.

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, 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.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied 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.

Job:

Legal

Job Level:

Director

    

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO 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.

   

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