Key Responsibilities

Commercial & Segment Legal Leadership

• Serve as the primary day-to-day legal advisor to the AMC segment and as second-in-command to the VP Deputy General Counsel AMC.
• Act as a trusted legal and business partner to segment leadership sales supply chain quality operations and engineering teams.
• Serve as a go-to legal resource for routine and complex legal questions across six AMC divisions.

Commercial Contracting & Protection

• Lead and support negotiation drafting and interpretation of customer supplier distributor and strategic commercial agreements including large cross-division and cross-segment agreements.
• Advise on contract structure pricing risk allocation liability warranty quality delivery indemnification and termination provisions.
• Support contract execution and lifecycle management including active enforcement of contract rights on pricing IP delivery and quality obligations.
• Lead and support commercial enforcement matters including collections on overdue customer payments and enforcement of contractual rights through demand letters and escalation.
• Advise on and support alignment of customer contract risk with downstream supply chain obligations a growing and increasingly complex area as AMC scales cross-division commercial programs.
• Provide guidance to and support the contract specialist team to drive consistency efficiency and adherence to standard processes and playbooks.

Aerospace Defense & Government Contracting Support

• Support commercial and operational matters involving aerospace defense and government-facing customers across AMCs five divisions.
• Demonstrate a working understanding of the government contracting environment including FAR/DFARS concepts flow-down requirements audit exposure and supplier obligations.
• Advise the business on risks and expectations associated with being a government supplier including compliance recordkeeping pricing delivery quality and termination considerations.
• Partner with Trade Compliance Quality Supply Chain IT and Operations teams to address regulatory export controls sanctions CMMC compliance and other trade-related considerations impacting government and defense programs.

Risk Management Disputes & Litigation Support

• Serve as first-line legal advisor on segment-related commercial disputes claims quality issues warranty matters supply chain disruptions and customer escalations.
• Partner with head of litigation internal business stakeholders and outside counsel on segment-specific pre-litigation matters contract-related matters litigation support and government contracting matters commercial disputes government contracts including strategy fact development and resolution.
• Provide practical risk-based guidance that balances legal exposure with business objectives and customer relationships.

Operational Partnership Process Improvement & Execution

• Collaborate with EHS Quality Trade Compliance Real Estate and other functional teams on legal issues impacting operations regulatory compliance and strategic initiatives.
• Identify recurring risks inefficiencies or friction points and drive improvements in contract templates processes and legal workflows including building standard work and playbooks the business can use to self-identify risk.
• Design and deliver training and business education so the business understands when contractual risk is triggered before it is reducing reactive legal exposure.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives on legacy contract exposure contract management rigor and risk identification across AMCs active commercial portfolio.
• Manage multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-paced environment maintaining ownership and follow-through through resolution.

Required Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following:

• 8 years of experience as a commercial lawyer with strong and effective drafting skills and significant responsibility for customer and supplier contracting.
• JD from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Experience supporting aerospace defense industrial or government-facing manufacturing businesses is required.
• Demonstrated experience and high understanding of the government contracting ecosystem including FAR/DFARS concepts flow-downs audits and the legal risks of operating as a government supplier.
• Experience advising on commercial matters including disputes quality issues warranty claims EHS-related matters and operational risk.
• Experience in a publicly traded or highly regulated environment preferred.
• Excellent judgment discretion and risk assessment.
• Practical business acumen driving pragmatic business-oriented solutions.
• A highly approachable collegial and collaborative approach.
• Accountable and proactive self-starter comfortable working independently.
• Superb organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.

Language: English

Expected Base Salary Range: $170000 - $200000

The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the companys base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors including but not limited to the physical worksite location the geographic market of that location candidates skill set level of experience education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

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