Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Being a successful Commercial Counsel Aerospace you will develop and support strategies that are designed to meet business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within your area of expertise, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategies being an active business partner.

In fulfilling these responsibilities, you will:

• Support commercial transactions as needed, by structuring, drafting and negotiating domestic and international commercial and financing agreements

• Provide proactive legal advice to the business on a variety of operational issues such as contract execution and interpretation

• Share lessons learnt across the GE Aerospace legal community

• Identify and provide advice on a variety of legal issues related to contracts and claim management

• Monitor commercial legal policies and procedures to ensure compliance

• Identify training and development needs and deliver training on legal and contractual matters for commercial and sourcing teams

• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of relevant industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of the business and help to differentiate business from the competition.

• Develop and support negotiation with suppliers

• Handle legal escalations due to service delivery/quality issues and invoicing/payable issues, etc.

• Support customer and business cost reduction and revenue increasing initiatives

• Continuously focus on improving processes, reducing inefficiencies, driving discipline and accountability to enable business growth and reduce potential or actual risk(s) to the business

Qualifications/Requirements

• Law degree from an accredited university, with superior academic record

• Qualified in a Member State of the European Union

• Strong practice post qualification experience either in a major international law firm, with major emphasis on commercial transactions

• Team player, capable of operating as a member of a cross-functional business team, in a matrix environment of a big global company

• Able to handle multiple priorities and assignments in a time pressured environment

• Availability to travel for 25 of time

• Fluency in English and Italian (additional languages appreciated)

• Work Visa, in accordance with local regulation, is required

• Computer literacy (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated organizational skills and business judgment

• Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills, charisma, decisiveness, poise

• Ability to work independently

• Strong written communication skills, especially persuasive writing

• Proven ability to develop process-driven solutions to recurring issues

• Ability to relate across cross functional teams and to convince and reach agreement in a multicultural environment

• Ability to work in a complex and matrixed organization in a collaborative and boundaryless manner and to simultaneously manage numerous and varied tasks and to exercise sound judgment in prioritizing among them

What we offer

Smart working and work life-balance

Avio Aero, when possible, promotes remote work and encourages a good, healthy and satisfying work-life balance. We value our employees’ wellbeing; hence we offer a variety of improvement programs aimed to preserve anyone’s psychological safety and daily needs.

Total Rewards

At Avio Aero, we understand the importance of Total Rewards. As a new joiner to Avio Aero we are pleased to offer the following welcome benefit plan:  

• Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits platform

• GE share plan

• Life and injury insurance

• Medical coverage

• Employee assistant program

• Employee special awards (service and recognition)   

• Local special agreements and discounts

• English and languages training for you and one member of your family

• Technical, Leadership and development trainings

Inclusion & Diversity

Avio Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are strongly committed to maintain an inclusive and diverse environment. Every employment decision is taken regardless to national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, etc.

We are not all the same. Just be Yourself AvioAero!

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