Kawneer General Counsel

In this role, you will: Executive Leadership and Strategic Counsel - Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors. - Provide practical legal guidance that supports the Company’s strategic objectives and profitable growth. - Assess legal and business risks associated with significant commercial, operational, and strategic decisions. - Participate in capital allocation, acquisitions, divestitures, and major business initiatives. - Translate leadership decisions into actionable workstreams and implementation plans - Advise executive leadership on material legal matters, significant claims, litigation exposure, and emerging business risks. - Oversee compliance with applicable antitrust and competition laws, anti-corruption regulations, trade and export controls, privacy and cybersecurity requirements, environmental regulations, and employment laws. - Oversee IP-related legal matters in coordination with the product development/R&D team. Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Transactions - Lead legal support for acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions. - Oversee due diligence, transaction structuring, negotiation, and post-closing integration activities. - Coordinate external legal advisors and specialists as required. - Advise executive leadership on strategic transactions, investments, and other significant corporate initiatives. Commercial Contracting & Business Transactions - Lead legal support for customer contracts, supply agreements, distribution arrangements, sales agent agreements, strategic partnerships, and other commercial transactions. - Draft, review, negotiate, interpret, and administer commercial agreements. - Develop and maintain standard contracting processes, templates, negotiation playbooks, and approval procedures. - Advise business leaders on pricing, warranty obligations, limitations of liability, indemnification, consequential damages, product claims, payment protections, and commercial risk allocation. - Support procurement and supply chain teams on sourcing agreements and supplier negotiations. - Advise on contract amendments, renewals, terminations, performance disputes, and enforcement of contractual rights. - Provide practical day-to-day legal support to Sales, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Credit, Quality, Engineering, and Technical Services. Claims, Warranty, and Product Matters - Lead the intake, investigation, assessment, and resolution of warranty claims, product claims, construction-related disputes, customer demands, and other pre-litigation matters. - Provide counsel on product liability, construction defects, contractor and installer disputes, and architectural and engineering claims. - Coordinate factual and technical investigations with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Technical Services, Sales, Finance, Credit, and other relevant business functions. - Prepare or…