Job Title: Senior Counsel
Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to various levels of Company management on a broad range of Guy Carpenter’s reinsurance brokerage and risk advisory businesses in the US and Canada.
- Handle the drafting, review, and negotiation of a wide range of contracts, including domestic and global client services agreements, RFPs with prospective clients, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, vendor agreements, and technology contracts.
- Support the business in developing, drafting, and negotiating strategic alliance agreements, joint marketing agreements, and referral agreements with third parties, including in the reinsurance, cyber, and technology spaces.
- Provide advice and counsel to the Company’s innovation initiatives as the business seeks to develop new products and solutions.
Education and Experience Information:
- A Bachelor's degree is required.
- A minimum of 3 years of working experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal department, including providing client advice and transactional support and working with client service agreements and technology contracts.
- Must be admitted to the bar in the State of New York.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, handle multiple priorities, prioritize assignments, and work efficiently.
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to support a diverse range of commercial initiatives.
- Excellent judgment, communication, and negotiating skills, financial acumen, project management skills, and a willingness and ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to effectively communicate with business colleagues and exercise sound legal and commercial judgment in providing advice and determining when to escalate issues.
- Keen attention to detail, excellent analytical ability, and discretion with confidential information.
- Clear and concise oral and written communication skills.
- Top-notch organization skills and the ability to analyze and refine business processes and workflows.
- Excellent responsiveness to team and business colleagues.
- Professional growth-oriented mindset evidenced by a desire to learn and improve continuously.
Salary Information:
- The applicable base salary range for this role is $129,400 to $258,800.
- The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
- In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
- The company offers a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs, as well as employee assistance programs.
Additional Information:
- The position will report to a Chief Counsel for North America located at the Company’s headquarters.
- Team members are required to be in the NYC office a minimum of three days per week to foster collaboration and engagement.
- The company promotes a culture of ethical, lawful, and risk mindful behavior.
- The company is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment, and aims to attract and retain the best people by embracing diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The company is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections, and professional development benefits of working together in the office.
- All colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.
