Senior Corporate Counsel

Your Impact Shapes theWorld at Caterpillar Inc. When you joinCaterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work wedo – but also about each other. We arethe makers, problem solvers and future world builders who are creatingstronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress andinnovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work andlive. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living init. Join us. Job Summary Provides legal support for a business division or legal practice area. What You Will Do • Advising management and providing clear recommendations on legal matters and related risks. • Providing legal support for a business division or significant legal practice area through supervision of a team, or coordination of a network of legal professionals, or serving as a subject matter expert. • Researching complex legal issues and reviewing and drafting legal documents consistent with legal strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives. What You Have Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations. • Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models. • Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools. • Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms. • Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices. • Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business. • Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks. Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. • Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks. • Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process. • Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact. • Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives. • Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus. • Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions. Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. • Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching. • Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience. • Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. • Communicates well downward, upward, and outward. • Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement. • Maintains focus on the topic at hand. Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. • Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities. • Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities. • Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments. • Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary. • Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work. • Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities. Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. • Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort. • Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts. • Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate. • Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes. • Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies. • Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. Resource Management: Knowledge of the resources required to achieve business objectives; ability to plan, mobilize and distribute resources to fulfill business objectives and plans. • Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison. • Specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives. • Surfaces opportunities to improve resource utilization. • Initiates requests for required resources. • Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably. Legal Analysis: Knowledge of methods and tools used in legal analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from both legal and factual information. • Researches key criteria necessary for valid legal analysis. • Follows procedures that help guide the evaluation of large scale implications and legal decisions. • Participates in discussions with professionals in order to break down legal issues into understandable concepts. • Selects legal documents and research tools to be utilized by the legal department. • Interprets major types of legal analysis required by the organization. Legal Function: Knowledge of the major responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of the legal function or department; ability to provide legal consulting, advice and assistance. • Works with major units or sub-functions of the legal department. • Monitors major current legal challenges, initiatives and issues…