
Marsh McLennan’s Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs (LCPA) department promotes a culture in which ethical, lawful, and risk mindful behavior is encouraged and reinforced. We are looking for a commercially oriented in-house counsel to support the corporate legal needs of its Guy Carpenter businesses.
The position will report to a Chief Counsel for North America who is located at the Company’s headquarters in New York. To foster collaboration and engagement, we require team members to be in the NYC office a minimum of three days per week.
We will count on you to:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to various levels of Company management on a broad range of Guy Carpenter’s reinsurance brokerage and risk advisory businesses in the US and Canada.
- Handle the drafting, review and negotiation of a wide range of contracts, including domestic and global client services agreements, RFPs with prospective clients, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, vendor agreements and technology contracts.
- Support the business in developing, drafting and negotiating strategic alliance agreements, joint marketing agreements and referral agreements with third parties, including in the reinsurance, cyber and technology space.
- Provide advice and counsel to the Company’s innovation initiatives as the business seeks to develop new products and solutions.
What you'll need to have:
- A Bachelor's degree
- A minimum of 3 years of working experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal department, including providing client advice and transactional support and working with client service agreements and technology contracts.
- Admitted to the bar in the State of New York
What makes you stand out:
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, to handle multiple priorities, to prioritize assignments and to work efficiently.
- Ability to be a creative problem solver and to support a diverse range of commercial initiatives.
- Excellent judgment, excellent communication and negotiating skills, financial acumen, project management skills, and a willingness and ability to work as a part of a team.
- Ability to effectively communicate with business colleagues and exercise sound legal and commercial judgment in providing advice and determining when to escalate issues.
- Keen attention to detail, excellent analytical ability, and discretion with confidential information.
- Clear and concise oral and written communication skills
- Top-notch organization skills and the ability to analyze and refine business processes and workflows
- Excellent responsivity to team and to business colleagues
- Professional growth-oriented mindset evidenced by a desire to learn and improve continuously
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients, and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
- $129,400 - $258,800