Legal Counsel position is to provide legal support to TE's Mexican operations. It requires an individual who is a professional and disciplined who possesses independent judgement and initiative, while upholding TE's core values of integrity, teamwork, accountability and innovation.
**Primary responsibilities include**:
- Commercial matters: Draft, translate English-Spanish, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including: sales, purchase, vendor, licensing and service agreements.
- Labor and Employment: provide legal support and counsel to mitigate and resolve disputes, provide trainings and manage outside counsel handling of litigation cases.
- Policies and Procedures: Research and draft local policies and procedures as needed.
- Risk assessment: Understand, assess, and provide meaningful risk evaluation and support to TE operations.
- General Advice: Provide general legal advice to the businesses.
- Administrative activities: Support with some administrative activities such as reporting, contract, and case management.
- Compliance: Support compliance initiatives and investigations.
- Legal audits: Perform audits on commercial, trade and other legal areas.
**What your background should look like**:
- Law degree from an accredited Mexican law school and licensed to practice law in Mexico.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a major law firm and/or multinational corporation.
- REPSE knowledge and experience.
- Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills.
- Managing outside counsel in litigation and other areas.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills English and Spanish.
- Experience interacting with senior corporate management.
- Review and approval of business publications and marketing material.
- Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics.
- Fluent in English and Spanish.
- Ability to timely meet deadlines.
- Strong judgment in assessing risks and ability to effectively convey risk assessments to business leaders.
- Ability to work as a team member and leader.
LI-Hybrid
Travel: Less than 10%
**Competencies**:
- Values: Integrity, Accountability, Teamwork, Innovation