Lead Senior Counsel, Legal, Global Contracts in Morrisville

Lenovo is seeking an experienced legal professional and people manager to serve as Lead Senior Counsel, North America, within its Global Contracts Team (GCT). This role will be responsible for leading the delivery of contractual legal support across North America, with a focus on sales, procurement, and related commercial transactions. The role will advise and support Lenovo’s North America businesses across a broad range of technology offerings and commercial models, including hardware, services, software, channel, DaaS, IaaS, SaaS, and managed services.

The role requires a combination of strong technical legal skills, people leadership, commercial judgment, stakeholder management, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment. This is a hybrid role based at Lenovo’s award-winning North America headquarters in Morrisville, North Carolina, with three days per week in the office and two days remote.

Job Responsibilities

• Leading the North America Contracts Team and overseeing the delivery of contractual legal support across North America, including Public Sector transactions.
• Managing, coaching, and developing team members, including providing regular feedback, supporting professional development, and fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team environment.
• Managing team priorities, workload allocation, and resources to ensure effective and timely support to Lenovo’s businesses.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex technology and commercial agreements.
• Advising Lenovo’s North America teams on a broad range of contractual, commercial, and related legal issues.
• Building and maintaining strong, trust-based relationships with key internal clients and stakeholders.
• Providing practical, business-oriented advice, including risk-and-reward analysis and clear recommendations to support informed decision-making.
• Collaborating with internal and outside counsel, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders to facilitate the efficient negotiation and closure of transactions.
• Developing and implementing legal efficiencies, including contract templates, playbooks, guidance, training, and other tools to improve contract processes and operations.
• Leading and participating in legal innovation and AI-related projects, including identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to contract review, legal workflows, knowledge management, and other GCT processes.

Basic Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 12+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Significant experience with technology transactions.
• Experience with or familiarity with U.S. Public Sector contracting and government procurement.

Preferred Requirements

• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal matters clearly and practically to business stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple transactions, projects, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

People Management and Leadership

• Demonstrated experience leading, managing, coaching, and developing legal professionals.
• Proven ability to build and maintain a collaborative, engaged, accountable, and high-performing team.
• Experience managing workload, priorities, and resource allocation across a team supporting multiple business stakeholders.

Client Relationship Development and Management

• Proven track record of building strong, trust-based relationships with diverse internal client groups.
• Ability to effectively interface with customers, senior leaders, and stakeholders across large and complex organizations.

Contract Drafting and Negotiation

• Extensive experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, preferably in the technology industry.
• Demonstrated ability to understand business objectives and develop practical and creative solutions and risk-mitigation strategies for key negotiation points.

Continuous Improvement, Technology, and Innovation

• Proven ability to identify opportunities to improve legal processes and implement practical solutions in collaboration with clients and team members.
• Experience using contract lifecycle management systems, AI-enabled legal tools, automation, and other technologies to support legal work.

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