Job Title: Sr. Counsel

Reports to: SVP, General Counsel

Location: Corporate Office, St. Louis, Missouri

Supervises: None

FLSA Status: Exempt

General Summary: This position is a collaborative and results oriented attorney who has strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, drives cross-functional projects and teams, works independently in a fast-paced business environment handling matters across a variety of disciplines. This position requires a combination of general commercial contracts, supply chain, quality assurance, regulatory, advertising, marketing, IP, privacy, and litigation experience. This position reports to the SVP, General Counsel on a four-person legal team (Paralegal, this position, Brand Protection Specialist and GC) with exposure to all aspects of the business.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Provides legal counsel on a wide range of matters, including contract management, regulatory, compliance, privacy, risk management and other general legal matters.
Provide legal advice to ensure the Company’s purchasing, safety & regulatory, brand & concept initiatives, marketing, sales, loyalty, pricing practices, ESG, website, social media channels and licensing activities comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines.
Drafts, reviews, redlines, and negotiates a wide variety of contracts and agreements (sponsorship agreements, athlete and ambassador agreements, license agreements, supply agreements, SaaS and service providers).
Together with the legal team, manages contracts and contract lifecycles including template development, maintenance, management and roll-out managing contract execution and filing, together with all phases of the contract management processes.
Support the Company’s intellectual property strategies and initiatives, including the Company’s robust global trademark and patent portfolios, copyright matters, clearance, prosecution, and enforcement initiatives.
Handles in-house aspects of litigation matters.
Develops organizational policies on industry-specific issues, corporate governance and regulatory affairs.
Consults with internal and external subject matter experts when necessary.
Builds relationships across the business units and with leadership stakeholders.
Advises on employment matters.
Actively identifies legal issues that affect the Company’s products and services and communicates with business units as appropriate.

Essential Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

Law degree from an accredited law school and a member in good standing of the state of Missouri.
A range of 6-10 years as a practicing attorney with in-house corporate legal department experience required, preference to candidates with privacy, consumer product and manufacturing experience.
Relentless attention to detail with the ability to process and execute multiple tasks simultaneously, ensuring completion of individual tasks without close supervision.
Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Top candidates will be deep creative thinkers with a proven track-record of mitigating legal risk while empowering the business to execute according to company-wide goals. A keen ability to navigate “getting to yes” while mitigating corporate risk and risk to revenue.
Proven dependability and flexibility regarding time management, work assignments and deadlines.
Strong written and oral communication skills; strong public speaking and presentation skills.

Core Competencies: The successful candidate will be:

Action–Oriented.
Solution–Oriented.
An outstanding communicator – both written and oral.
A self-starter who is comfortable working independently.
A creative innovator.
A leader that is comfortable interacting with and influencing others at all levels within the organization.
Personally responsible with a high degree of integrity that is comfortable speaking out when necessary.
Customer-focused & consumer-orientated (to both internal and external customers).

Working Conditions: General office working conditions. This is an “on-site” position working in the Rawlings’ St. Louis’ headquarters in Westport Plaza.

This job description does not list all the duties of the job. Position may be required to perform other duties as needed.

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