Associate General Counsel - Contracts

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JRThe Marmon Group LLCAs a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

This newly created role reflects Marmon’s continued growth and the increasing strategic importance of an enterprise-wide, technology enabled contracting function.
Reporting to the Vice President & General Counsel, this role will provide day‑to‑day leadership to attorneys and contract professionals, with responsibility for mentoring, elevating performance, and shaping the future structure of the contracting function. This role also will assist in growing the team in a collegial manner to continue building out Marmon’s internal contracting function and defining best practices and processes for contracting.
The Associate General Counsel - Contracts will be an energetic, talented commercial lawyer with an inquisitive eye for evaluating AI and other digital tools for use in the Marmon contracting process. They will also have a service-minded personality to help lead and collaborate with the Marmon contracts team.
This will be a full-time position with the flexibility to work a hybrid schedule – a combination of time working from one of Marmon’s Chicagoland offices and working remotely, while also periodically traveling as needed.
** WHAT YOU'LL DO
** Key objectives for this role include:
* Managing the implementation and adoption of a new contract management system (CMS) across the company
* Integrating AI functionality into the contract review process in a targeted, constructive manner and evaluating AI and other digital technology solutions going forward
* Working with the contracts team to build out and expand use of standardized templates and playbooks within the CMS
* Assisting with supervision of external counsel handling flat fee contract reviews
* Maintaining enterprise-wide contract budgets and spend; and drafting, reviewing, and negotiating both firm-wide and Corporate-level commercial agreements for Corporate senior leaders and stakeholders

Additionally, this role will be responsible to:
* Work with the Marmon contracts team on an ongoing basis to assess and deploy AI usage within contracting tools and develop & refine templates, policies, procedures, and related material for the larger Marmon legal team and firm-wide business partners to standardize and improve contract review process;
* Serve as a key business and legal partner by virtue of legal acumen, technical competence, excellent business judgment, and ability to develop relationships throughout the organization;
* Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements supporting the operations of Marmon, including key topic areas such as sales, manufacturing and supply, licensing and professional services, etc.;
* Demonstrate in-depth understanding of business operations and objectives to assess risk; and
* Collaborate with and provide actionable advice & creative solutions to business partners on a range of business and strategic issues.#LI-DNI
** WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO

THE ROLE
*** J.D. from an accredited law school, with proven academic success
* At least ten (10) years of legal experience with progressively increasing complexity; experience working in and/or or directly supporting global manufacturing organization(s) is highly desired
* Experience with CLM systems and comfort evaluating emerging legal‑tech solutions (AI review tools, workflow automation, analytics dashboards)
* Strong knowledge of commercial contract law and regulations related to manufacturing, sales, and distribution coupled with relevant commercial law experience negotiating sophisticated agreements in house and/or with a law firm
* Ability to help manage, thoughtfully contribute to,…