Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

Job Location

US-KY-Louisville

ID

2025-3513

# of Openings

Posted Date

2 weeks ago (9 / 25 / 2025 9 : 04 AM)

Overview

Wieland - Creating Value for Generations!

Wieland is a global leader in copper and copper alloy manufacturing, processing, and distribution. We provide a large product and service portfolio including power, automotive, ammunition, coinage, construction materials, refrigeration, electronics and many other industries. To us, metal is more than material.

Wieland's Cultural Values

Wieland's culture is what makes for a fun and rewarding place to work! As a company, we benefit daily from our employees' knowledge and abilities. With our cultural vision, we place our core values at the heart of everything we do : safety , ambition , optimism , reliability , ownership , diversity , & respect .

Wieland is hiring a Corporate Counsel . The Corporate Counsel will be responsible to review, advise, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements for both domestic and international deals. This critical role will also support broader legal matters, such as legal policies, compliance programs, litigation, privacy, employment matters, and other cross-functional matters. It is critical that the successful candidate be willing to become a true corporate generalist and be willing to learn new areas of law as needed. This role will ultimately assist in all areas of legal and compliance and a strong desire to work in new areas of law and to address novel legal issues will be essential to your success and happiness in this role. This role is located in Louisville, KY and will be on-site.

Responsibilities

Corporate Counsel Responsibilities :

Review, advise, and negotiate a variety of complex commercial agreements.

• Take a practical, creative, and proactive problem-solving approach to efficiently close deals while advising business leaders on acceptable risk.
• Occasionally collaborate with outside counsel on complex deals, as approved by the Director of Legal and Labor Relations North America.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business teams on legal, regulatory, and corporate matters, such as company policies, data protection and privacy, employment law, and other compliance and operational matters.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business teams, such as Finance, Tax, Customer Service, and Procurement to efficiently resolve commercial and operational matters.
• Assist in creating and improving our template agreements and documents, as needed.
• Contribute to the development of workflows and processes needed to efficiently scale the legal team, such as those related to the negotiation and signature of final agreements, and the tracking of contractual obligations in those agreements.
• Create and present training materials to business teams on a variety of issues, including, legal best practices, efficiently engaging legal, and current legal / regulatory issues, as required.
• Performing other responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time.

Corporate Counsel Qualifications :

Qualifications

Joining Wieland's team gives you...

Wieland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer . We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. Come join Wieland today and help us continue to build a global corporation we are all proud to belong to.