Legal Counsel

Min 5 yrs required

Full-time

No

Position Summary:

The Legal Counsel at GTT will play a crucial role in the company’s operations by managing all sales contract matters. This includes negotiating contracts, resolving issues, and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. The ideal candidate will have a JD degree from an accredited law school and a minimum of 5 years of experience in contract lifecycle management. They must also have hands-on experience with sales contract preparation, review, and negotiation. This position is full-time and remote, and the salary range is $95,000 - $115,000.

Key Responsibilities:

- Negotiate sales contracts in a fast-paced business environment
- Serve as an adviser and resource for internal stakeholders with specific questions and requests regarding current sales contracts
- Work closely with the sales and sourcing teams, business unit stakeholders, and the legal team to develop and support the implementation of GTT’s overall contract management strategy
- Ensure sales compliance with contractual obligations, service level agreements, and other performance requirements
- Lead the approval and execution of specific contracts
- Support issue escalation and dispute resolution with sales contracts
- Draft, amend, advise on, and negotiate the full range of commercial agreements for all GTT products
- Provide accurate and understandable legal advice and drafting focused on the business’s issues
- Articulate GTT’s risk appetite to all levels of the company, including senior management and executives, to ensure compliance with policies and make them aware of unfavorable terms and conditions
- Identify, analyze, and mitigate contractual risk
- Sort and organize complex information for use in decision making
- Ensure compliance with corporate policies and business practices
- Resolve customer billing issues and disputes with suppliers
- Monitor contract amendments, extensions, and renewals and close out as appropriate
- Maintain accurate sales and vendor/supplier records

Required Experience/Qualifications:

- JD degree from an accredited law school
- Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in contract lifecycle management
- Hands-on experience of sales contract preparation, review, and negotiation
- Broad knowledge of the telecommunications business
- Proven track record of effectively managing and influencing internal and external stakeholders
- Experience using cloud-based contract management tools
- Results-oriented mentality with a focus on efficiency, accuracy, and quality

Desirable Experience/Qualifications:

- A commercially/business savvy individual who can provide options and solutions rather than simply saying no
- Ability to articulate the business drivers behind GTT’s goals
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, confident in dealing with all levels of the company, including executives, in a multi-tasking, multi-cultural environment
- Able to work effectively under pressure in a team environment
- Team player with a positive, can-do attitude

Core Competencies:

- Knowledge of organization: Understands the organization's vision, structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, values, and code of ethics. Able to align capabilities with business goals to support optimal performance.
- Products and services: Familiar with major products and services and product and service groups. Able to apply knowledge of products and services appropriately to diverse situations.
- Risk management: Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds. Able to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
- Effective communications: Understands effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques. Able to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques. Able to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
- Problem solving: Familiar with approaches, tools, and techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational, or process problems. Able to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Matrix management: Understands the importance of leveraging external resources when required and able to build and use effective working relationships within their own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.
- Commercial law: Knowledge of domestic and international laws governing commerce. Able to interpret and take action on the aspects of such laws that impact the business.
- Government affairs regulatory environment: Familiar with government legislation bodies affecting the organization. Able to use methods and tools in handling governmental legislation and regulatory issues.
- Intellectual property law: Knowledge of domestic and international laws governing intellectual property (IP). Able to interpret and take action on the aspects of IP laws that impact the business.

Universal Competencies:

- Continuous improvement: Familiar with transformation initiatives to drive fundamental changes and enhance responsiveness and efficiency to core business practices. Able to drive cultural changes from best effort to results-oriented.
- Customer first (non-customer facing): Understands internal customer interactions and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and partnership. Able to build an environment supporting internal customer value creation at every level.
- Operational excellence: Understands system-driven processes for consistency and scalability. Able to refocus processes and systems from integration activity to maximizing a positive customer impact and anticipating future trends.

Salary and EEO Statement:

The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $115,000, depending on relevant skills and experience. GTT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, GTT complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. GTT expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of GTT’s employees to

this policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training

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