Director, Corporate Governance

Overview

Director, Corporate Governance role at Sealed Air Corporation
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Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. The company aims to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that delivers consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerates performance. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees in 117 countries/territories.

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Position Summary

The Director, Corporate Governance is an integral member of the corporate Secretary’s team and partners with the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to manage corporate governance, subsidiary compliance, and operational and transactional legal matters. This role drives governance initiatives, ensures day-to-day tasks are completed with excellence, and strategically implements initiatives for future success. The Director works directly with the board of directors and senior executives, and serves as a liaison with the board, committees, external counsel, auditors, and other senior stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have a background in corporate governance, legal entity structures, and legal operations. The Director supervises legal operations staff to ensure efficient management of legal systems/processes, technology tools, vendor management, metrics, and budget control.

• Partner with the GC on corporate governance, board of directors, SEC/securities, and transactional legal matters
• Manage logistics for board of directors and board committees
• Support external and internal audit teams to evidence compliance with policies and Sarbanes-Oxley and other audit requirements
• Administer SEC filings related to Section 16 and support proxy statement preparation and annual meeting activities
• Evaluate, revise, and implement policies and procedures relating to corporate governance, subsidiary governance, and legal operations
• Lead a team of para-professionals across the globe who manage and ensure compliance in the global subsidiaries
• Support legal entity restructuring and optimization projects
• Provide creative thinking to identify and implement cutting-edge strategies to manage operations and external legal vendors
• Oversee operations to identify, implement, and manage critical technology, software, and databases; develop and track KPIs, metrics, and business analytics; and perform external benchmarking for the LCAS organization to ensure top performance
• Partner with the LCAS Operations and Finance teams to develop an annual budget and long-range operating plan, and to monitor and enforce responsible spending behaviors

• Bachelor’s degree and 7-10+ years of relevant experience OR Paralegal certificate with an ABA-accredited program and 12-15+ years of relevant experience
• Prior experience with a U.S. publicly traded company with global operations in a legal and/or corporate secretary role
• Possess a North Carolina Notary Public credential or obtain within 90 days of hire date
• National or state paralegal credential is a plus

Requisition

Relocation:
No

Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status, in accordance with applicable laws.

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Note:

This role is listed for Charlotte, NC; salary ranges and additional postings are shown for context only and may change.