Legal Counsel

Role Overview

• Provide strategic legal counsel as a business partner and uphold and foster the highest standards of integrity within ABB.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards.
• Effectively and pragmatically manage legal risks.
• Reviewing and negotiating contracts, drafting commercial agreements and other contractual terms in collaboration with relevant business stakeholders and team members, and collaborating with contract management.
• Monitoring legal affairs, including but not limited to litigations and activity reports and occupying a seat at the table on local strategic business matters.
• Ensuring good corporate governance (including structuring, drafting, and negotiation) in your area of accountability within the country, with respect to Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) / divestiture transactions.
• Supporting in anticipating future business and legal opportunities and challenges and developing appropriate strategies to address them.

Requirements

• Degree in law from an established US university.
• Law firm experience and In-house experience preferred.
• You hold current bar admission valid in a US State.
• Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
• You are at ease communicating in English. French and/or German helpful.
• You enjoy working as part of a full-service team integrated into our business.
• Willingness to work with AI and in a digitally enabled environment.
• You are passionate about law in a practical and solution orientated way with out-of-the
• box thinking.
• You are captivated by technology and want to work collaboratively as a true business partner.

Benefits

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program
• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
• ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
• Vacation is provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.