Description:

Job Family
Legal Counsel

About Us:
At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are:
 We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.

We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What we do:
Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com. 

Job Description Summary:
Consult with and advise organization on appropriate legal action. Responsible for assigned practice area(s), which may include management and budget responsibilities. May be a member of extended leadership team for department.

Job Description:
Responsibilities:

Manage legal matters provided to a number of in-house constituents, including senior management, within practice area(s).

Work on complex problems where analysis requires identification and evaluation of multiple factors and that impact significant areas of the company.

Advise business on issues impacting significant functional areas of the company.

Negotiate difficult disputes that may have a serious impact to the company.

Identify areas where new documents/templates are necessary.

Manage legal matters handled by outside counsel. Select outside counsel for matters from pre-selected counsel.

Provide significant input in evaluation of panel counsel within area/areas of expertise, to the extent panel counsel program is used in practice area.

Identify gaps in corporate policies related to legal issues and works on addressing those gaps.

May have limited budgetary responsibility for specific cost center(s).

May manage and train more junior attorneys within practice area(s).

Largely work with independent judgment, consulting with more senior attorney as needed.

Identify needs for, participate in, and lead departmental and cross-functional working groups in identified areas of expertise or development; engage with senior leadership of the company on legal matters with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities include: Negotiate high value vendor agreements; assist with internal policy review and revisions; assist with regulatory responses within specific practice area.

Working knowledge of data privacy and security requirements within the US and EU for resolution of collaboratively resolving with our dedicated Privacy and Security Legal Team.

Build and continuously improve the commercial legal operating model: playbooks, self-service tools, escalation frameworks, and process improvements that increase capacity and reduce cycle times.

Qualifications:

JD from an ABA accredited law school
Eight years of relevant legal experience
Licensed or eligible to practice in the applicable state
Ability to effectively communicate, both written and oral, with the intended audience
Ability to exercise sound judgment in a fast paced environment
Ability to exercise agility and adaptability in providing legal advice
Comfortable in a rapidly changing corporate environment
Proficient using MS Office

Preferred Qualifications:
Specific experience in master services agreements and related agreements for outsourcing transactions; complex software, cloud and other technology with and without AI components