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At An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation.
How will you make an impact in this role?
The GCS business serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to a substantial number of Fortune 500 companies. It is a core business of An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation with a vision is to be essential to our customers' businesses every day. GCS builds and maintains relationships by offering a diverse range of payment and cashflow tools, from a wide range of traditional card products to working capital solutions to new digital solutions that make it easy for customers to manage a full range of their financial and payment needs.
The General Counsel's Organization (GCO) at An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation is seeking a Director & Counsel to support the Global & Large client group within the Global Commercial Services (GCS). The successful candidate will be responsible for supervising three (3) legal professional negotiating complex commercial agreements and providing day-to-day legal and strategic advice in respect of the Company's most significant commercial payments relationships. This position requires regularly navigating novel business and legal issues across a broad range of matters and working seamlessly with colleagues on a global basis. It also provides the opportunity to contribute to strategic projects and other contract negotiations across GCS and to collaborate with colleagues across business units and the GCO on significant initiatives.
Role & Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
At An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation.
How will you make an impact in this role?
The GCS business serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to a substantial number of Fortune 500 companies. It is a core business of An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation with a vision is to be essential to our customers' businesses every day. GCS builds and maintains relationships by offering a diverse range of payment and cashflow tools, from a wide range of traditional card products to working capital solutions to new digital solutions that make it easy for customers to manage a full range of their financial and payment needs.
The General Counsel's Organization (GCO) at An American Multinational Financial Services Corporation is seeking a Director & Counsel to support the Global & Large client group within the Global Commercial Services (GCS). The successful candidate will be responsible for supervising three (3) legal professional negotiating complex commercial agreements and providing day-to-day legal and strategic advice in respect of the Company's most significant commercial payments relationships. This position requires regularly navigating novel business and legal issues across a broad range of matters and working seamlessly with colleagues on a global basis. It also provides the opportunity to contribute to strategic projects and other contract negotiations across GCS and to collaborate with colleagues across business units and the GCO on significant initiatives.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of dedicated legal professionals tasked to provide legal and strategic advice on a broad range of matters impacting strategic commercial relationships, all within a dynamic business and regulatory environment.
- Provide legal and strategic advice on a range of matters impacting key commercial relationships, such as commercial contracting, risk identification and mitigation, data issues and disputes handling.
- Negotiate and guide implementation of complex Global & Large customer agreements and other commercial contracts, working in close collaboration with legal and business colleagues and other subject matter experts.
- Participate in a small team of seasoned attorneys, offering thought leadership for, and engagement on, cross-subject matter practice group issues and strategic projects.
- Identify and support process improvements to promote agility in legal and related business operations, including contract template improvements.
- Partner with international legal colleagues, Compliance, Operational Risk, and business development leads, and cross-functional teams, to ensure the most effective support and relevant expertise is applied to particular matters.
- Build and use your leadership and subject matter expertise to serve as an engaging mentor, advisor and leader to colleagues on the team and across the General Counsel's Organization
Minimum Qualifications:
- J.D. with ability to practice law in New York
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal environment
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial transactions and relationships
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with passion for generating creative and innovative solutions
- Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and persuasively, in both written and oral format, and to synthesize complex issues
- Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to work well in cross-functional team settings
- Ability to manage and prioritize competing demands while maintaining high attention to detail and meeting deadlines
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to understand and integrate details of business operational/systemic environment in applying legal and policy requirements
- Self-motivated, high level of personal energy and commitment
- People leadership experience a plus
- Experience in the payments industry preferred
