Job description
Requisition ID: 143989
Company: Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC
Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC (“Heartland Coca-Cola”) produces, sells, and distributes the highest quality and best tasting Coca-Cola beverages across Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Our success is rooted in the guiding principles of putting PEOPLE first, serving our local COMMUNITY, and providing great brands to our CUSTOMERS and consumers. We work and win together as a team by promoting a culture that values how our people think, feel, and act.
Job Summary
The Attorney is responsible for providing legal counsel and services to the organization on a broad range of business matters.
Job Responsibilities
- Performs contract review and negotiation support. Identifies and analyzes legal issues, drafts key documents, presents clear recommendations, and assures legal compliance.
- Manage various litigation matters and employment claims.
- Review, draft and negotiate a variety of contracts, leases, and other legal documents.
- Research and analyze various legal issues as they arise.
- Explain complex legal issues to non-technical internal clients.
- Advise internal clients on the risk associated with contract provisions and recommend ways to mitigate the risk.
- Assist the General Counsel with other projects that may arise in the operation of a beverage production, sales, and distribution company, including but not limited to, general corporate governance and employee matters.
- Manage follow-up from previous reviews.
- Conduct solutions-focused negotiations.
- Conduct basic legal research and writing, as required.
- Communicate policy and strategy to internal clients.
- Assess commercial risk of contracts.
- Help coach internal clients on prioritizing contract changes and provide solutions to complex negotiations.
- Provide basic legal analysis and opinions.
- Identify and recommend areas for improvement.
- Follow safety rules, guidelines, and standards for all projects.
- Be responsible for maintaining quality standards on all projects.
Job Requirements
- Licensed to practice law and eligible to secure a Kansas in-house license if currently licensed outside Kansas per Rule 712 of the Kansas Supreme Court.
- Juris Doctorate with less than five years of experience, preferably in a corporate legal environment.
- Strong project management skills including the ability to work well under pressure and meet critical daily deadlines.
- Excellent analytical, communication, diplomatic, research and writing, phone, and customer service skills.
- Demonstrates effective negotiating skills.
- Efficient work habits with the ability to manage multiple projects.
- Ability to explain complex legal issues to non-technical internal clients.
At Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, LLC (“Heartland Coca-Cola”), we offer a competitive benefits package to our full-time employees including medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, 401(k), and vacation. Some benefit packages may include new parent leave, tuition reimbursement, and work from home options.
We require all applicants to undergo a background verification process prior to employment. This process will also include a drug screen, a review of Motor Vehicle Records for those who drive for the company as part of their job, and a fit for duty testing as required for some positions. Employment with Heartland Coca-Cola is contingent on the satisfactory completion of its background verification process.
Heartland Coca-Cola is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and any other class protected by law.
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