Description:
Job Purpose:The purpose and function of the Electrified and New Business Contracts Counsel is to provide high quality, proactive legal services and advice on a timely and cost-effective basis for moderate to complex matters to a variety of Honda companies throughout the North American Region to help minimize legal risks.
Key Accountabilities:
- Day to day agreement support: Provide advice, negotiation, and review for agreements supporting electrification and new business functions at Honda, such as master service agreements, cloud service agreements and software license agreements.
- Must be willing/able to deal with Intellectual Property issues.
- Complex agreement support: draft new agreements to support new business initiatives, and support complicated agreements involving joint ventures and alliances.
- Improvement: Work on new processes and training for Honda associates to improve the quality and effectiveness of the legal function.
- Projects: Participate in the planning and execution of assigned projects with a regional focus.
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
- Minimum 5 years experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts
- Willingness to support other agreement areas depending on needs of the business
- Ability to learn and understand new technology areas
- Ability to handle Intellectual Property issues in agreements
- Juris Doctorate Degree from an accredited law school
- Admittance to the California Bar
- Flexibility to support agreement negotiations in eastern time zone from time to time
- Excellent skills in communication, problem solving, customer satisfaction, building relationships, coaching, decision-making, risk analysis, flexibility, adaptability, patience, listening, good writing, risk taking, focusing on achieving results, and supporting others to achieve results and legal technical knowledge
Workstyle
Hybrid
