Regional Legal Counsel - United States
About dss+:
dss+ is a leading operations management consulting firm offering a range of advisory and implementation transformational services in Operational Risk, Operational Excellence, Sustainability enabled by Learning & Development and Digital Technologies.
dss+ has employees across the globe offering services primarily in the Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Consumer Products and Financial Services industries.
At dss+ we embrace and celebrate diversity. We have established an inclusive culture, where everyone contributes, has the chance to develop and display their talents in solving challenging client problems. We are a team-based culture and thus we look for people that operate well in this environment, are intellectually curious and are adaptive, ensuring their contribution fits within the evolving themes and dynamics of our projects.
About the Opportunity:
The Regional Legal Counsel - USC is the lead-legal counsel for the US and Canada (USC) market that works in close collaboration with USC leadership.
Responsible for providing legal oversight, expertise, and guidance across the team:
- Responsible for the legal oversight of the USC region
- Draft, review and negotiate prime and subcontracting agreements for U.S. federal, state and local customers, including ensuring such agreements are drafted in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and prime contractor requirements.
- Advise and support internal stakeholders, such as the USC management, sales, and project execution teams on a wide variety of contractual, commercial, and legal matters
- Draft, review, and negotiate, consulting services agreements, master service agreements, and standard NDAs, with both public and private sector clients
- Assist on Vendor Agreement, Independent Contractors, and IT agreements
- Lead all corporate governance, M&A, compliance, antitrust, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, intellectual property, and data privacy matters
- Lead and support litigations / legal cases as needed
- Provide guidance, support as well as risk management and mitigation for all USC business activities, and challenges, and manage local insurance coverage
- Ensure compliance with dss+ policies and procedures, ethical practices, company values, and adherence to relevant laws and regulations.
- Coordination and collaboration with all other legal team members to ensure global coverage of legal matters
- Train and educate the business team on legal matters
- Manage external legal counsel across USC
- Model and support our core values and mission critical behaviors
Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor Degree from an accredited US law school
- License to practice law and in good standing with at least one state bar (Texas, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, or Delaware would be preferable, additional call to a Canadian province an asset)
Experience:
- Minimum 10 – 20 years of relevant work experience
- Minimum of 5-6 years working on U.S. federal, state and local government contracts, as well as Canadian provincial contracts is a plus
- Prior experience in consulting or professional services preferred
- Strong transactional contracting experience, together with pragmatic business-minded advice mindset
- Experience advising across a variety of legal, compliance and risk matters affecting professional services and consulting companies
Competencies and Abilities:
- Function independently, with moderate supervision
- Ability to collaborate and engage globally across a variety of functional groups (e.g., finance, people & culture, IT, etc.) with a problem-solving mindset
- Handle high volume of work, recognize priorities, and manage time effectively
- Follow a risk-based approach
- Pragmatic and business-oriented approach.
- Focused on providing practical solutions with a business impact
- Manage senior stakeholders and internal clients
- Comfortable to deal with ambiguity and can make quick decisions
- Willing and interested in working closely with the dss+ team and contribute directly to the group's success
Skills Required:
- Good interpersonal skills, including clear and effective communication skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and multi-task
- Light travel may be required (typically, once per quarter)
