Senior Corporate Counsel

About This Role

Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel, the Senior Corporate Counsel provides practical, timely, quality legal services to help Ace Hardware Corporation meet its business objectives, and remain in compliance with laws, rules and regulations applicable to the company's businesses. This position requires a strong legal generalist with the ability to handle a wide variety of commercial agreements and legal issues, with a focus on ecommerce, digital marketplace agreements, technology including SaaS agreements, franchise matters, credit and financial matters, and corporate governance.

What You'll Do

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts including ecommerce, technology and marketing agreements. This includes SaaS, licensing and brand partnership agreements, professional services agreements, consulting agreements, agency agreements, supply agreements, and advertising and marketing agreements, in support of all commercial functions of Ace and its affiliates.
• Focus on the digital and modern market business areas, with expertise in navigating and providing legal advice on complex issues that arise in online commerce and emerging technology environments and understanding best practices and emerging trends. Responsibilities may include advising on new digital products, platforms, online services and marketplaces; advising on marketing and intellectual property issues; understanding of data security and privacy laws and related contractual issues and collaborating with privacy and marketing teams to ensure legal compliance;
• Provide legal advice and counsel on regulatory and compliance issues.
• Provide legal advice and counsel on issues involving relationships with retailers and franchisees; negotiate commercial agreements that may impact retailer and franchisee relationships; and may assist with the preparation of Ace's Franchise Disclosure Documents.
• Collaborate and work as part of a team with legal colleagues, business leaders and other partners to provide creative solutions to business issues while eliminating or minimizing legal risks.
• Provide legal advice and counsel to business clients with contract and other commercial disputes that may arise.
• Manage outside counsel and develop strategy for litigation and regulatory proceedings.
• Handle day to day legal issues that arise and develop, review and revise various policies, processes, templates and forms.

Required Skills

Ability to partner effectively with business clients in a collaborative environment to understand and achieve stated business objectives within tight deadlines and with minimal supervision;

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Compensation Details :

$155400 - $202000 per year

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits

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When most people think of career opportunities with Ace Hardware, they often think of the helpful cashiers and sales associates at their local store. However, have you also considered the people behind the scenes who select, promote, ship and process the invoices for more than 75,000 products? Maybe you haven't, but we'd like you to. Because together we help our customers take care of their homes. Come find out why a career with the Ace Hardware Corporation is one of America's best kept secrets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ace Hardware Corporation is committed to a policy of promoting equal employment opportunities. The company recognizes the importance of diversity and leveraging the skills and talents of all people to the mutual advantage of each individual and the organization. The company is committed to the prevention of employment discrimination related to race, religion, color, sex (including sexual harassment), gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability and military or veteran status, sexual orientation or any other action covered by federal or applicable state / local laws.

Disclaimer

The pay range for this position starts as listed in the job posting, but could be higher based on education and experience. Please note, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each opening. We take into consideration the minimum requirements outlined in the job description, such as an individual's education, training and experience, the position's work location, required travel (if any), and external market conditions when determining the final salary for potential new hires.

Be aware that salary estimates published via alternate online job boards may not be a true representation of the actual pay range offered for this position. Please refer to the Ace position description for the accurate starting pay range information and feel free to discuss this with a Talent Acquisition professional if you are chosen to move forward with an interview.

This written "Position Description" is not intended to cover all aspects of the position listed. It is meant to cover the basic / general essential job functions of a particular position. Ace Hardware Corporation reserves the right to change job duties, including essential job functions, according to business necessity.

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