Corporate Counsel

Senior Corporate Counsel

Unifi seeks an experienced corporate attorney to join its legal team in Atlanta to be chiefly responsible for reviewing its customer and vendor contracts and facilitating its contract-review process. The position is part of the legal team and reports to the Associate General Counsel. As part of the contracts review team, the position will frequently interact with members of the senior management team and will have the ability to work directly with the General Counsel on M&A and other transactional matters.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, review, and analyze a wide variety of complex commercial agreements to ensure the protection of Unifi’s interests and compliance with Unifi’s policies and applicable law.
• Collaborate with the Customer Contracts Director (also a member of the legal team) on improvements to the contract review and approval process, contract templates, and related policies.
• Serve as the primary legal escalation point for internal contract stakeholder negotiation to resolve complex issues and assist in disputes.
• Drive the development, implementation, and updating of policies for internal contract approval processes to ensure process efficiencies and compliance.
• Develop clear metrics for extracting data from the CLM to measure contract performance.
• Prepare customized customer and vendor contract templates as part of the CLM system.
• Interpret and advise internal business partners on commercial transaction requirements and risk exposure.
• Negotiate terms and conditions of contracts with customer’s/vendor’s counsel.
• Collaborate with and manage outside counsel on legal strategy and contract review.
• Develop and execute training for internal business partners on the contract approval process and policies.
• Work on other legal matters with the General Counsel and Associate General Counsel.

Qualifications & Skills

• JD from accredited law school
• Top-tier law firm training
• 5-7 years of corporate law experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts, including but not limited to procurement, customer/sales agreements, statements of work, leases, NDAs, and MSAs.
• Experience with Saas and license agreements, data privacy, and cybersecurity a plus.
• In-house experience creating, managing, or using contract analytics software, specifically DocuSign, also a plus.
• Must be able to advise, lead, and collaborate with company stakeholders, internal and external attorneys, and vendors, and customers to develop and execute agreements.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work on multiple projects at one time and get work done independently, efficiently, and expeditiously
• Experience advising clients and developing pragmatic business perspectives
• Ability to work across a multi-cultural business environment