Counsel I - Commercial

Legal Counsel position is to provide legal support to TE’s Mexican operations. It requires an individual who is a professional and disciplined who possesses independent judgement and initiative, while upholding TE’s core values of integrity, teamwork, accountability and innovation.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Commercial matters: Draft, translate English-Spanish, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including: sales, purchase, vendor, licensing and service agreements.
• Labor and Employment: provide legal support and counsel to mitigate and resolve disputes, provide trainings and manage outside counsel handling of litigation cases.
• Policies and Procedures: Research and draft local policies and procedures as needed.
• Risk assessment: Understand, assess, and provide meaningful risk evaluation and support to TE operations.
• General Advice: Provide general legal advice to the businesses.
• Administrative activities: Support with some administrative activities such as reporting, contract, and case management.
• Compliance: Support compliance initiatives and investigations.
• Legal audits: Perform audits on commercial, trade and other legal areas.

What your background should look like:

• Law degree from an accredited Mexican law school and licensed to practice law in Mexico.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a major law firm and/or multinational corporation.
• REPSE knowledge and experience.
• Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills.
• Managing outside COUNSEL In litigation and other areas.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills English and Spanish.
• Experience interacting with senior corporate management.
• Review and approval of business publications and marketing material.
• Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Ability to timely meet deadlines.
• Strong judgment in assessing risks and ability to effectively convey risk assessments to business leaders.
• Ability to work as a team member and leader.

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Travel: Less than 10%

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