Senior Manager - Legal Counsel

Purpose & Function Description:

Provide comprehensive strategic legal, business, and negotiation advice across multiple touch points in the organization, with a focus on Human Resources and Procurement, through the following:  

• Act as a strategic business partner and advisor to the organization on employment law matters and commercial agreements with third parties
• Provide timely, accurate, and comprehensive advice on employment law issues
• Manage employment litigation and agency claims
• Negotiate commercial agreements to ensure best terms and most valuable rights
• At all times ensure a consistent and high standard for all internal standards and principles globally and within the local markets

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide employment law advice to Human Resources primarily focused on Retail and Distribution Center locations.  Draft related policies and procedures. Conduct training on employment laws and best practices.
• Manage employment litigation and agency charges.  
• Negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial contracts – with a focus on non-trade procurement agreements
• Provide expert legal guidance and advice on a wide variety of commercial relationships.   

Key Relationships:

• Human Resources
• Procurement
• Wider GL&C Team
• External partners and law firms

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:

• Strategic thinking and acting
• Deep knowledge of employment laws
• Extensive experience negotiating and drafting legal agreements
• Ability to manage and prioritize substantial and diverse workload
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and under pressure
• Cooperative, team-oriented approach with ability to excel within a highly collaborative team and able to build effective relationships within and outside of adidas
• Professional, approachable with extensive cross-functional and intercultural experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate our values for living an inclusive and respectful culture of belonging

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree and Juris Doctor degree;
• 3-5 years of professional working experience in a law firm or in-house legal department with employment law background

At adidas we offer a hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday

• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave. ​
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.​
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.  The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.​
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.