Corporate Counsel

About JLG, an Oshkosh company

JLG began in 1969, when our founder, John L. Grove set out to resolve growing safety concerns in the construction industry. Since then we have been committed to understanding the challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the access market. We partner with customers to provide quality equipment, training opportunities and trusted support within the access industry. We are a global company, and our products—including mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers, utility vehicles and accessories—can be found all over the world.

JOB SUMMARY

The Corporate Counsel will serve as primary counsel for JLG APAC region to identify, assess, and manage risk to protect the organization’s interest in transactional law matters, including mergers and acquisition transactions, financing transactions, commercial agreements, international law matters, also provide regional legal support for Finance, Treasury, Tax, Human Resources, Ethics & Compliance departments. The objective of this role is to assist in all APAC legal work, both internally and externally by ensuring compliance with all local laws and regulations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Partner with business to develop an understanding of the various business needs, risks, and opportunities.
• Serve as the lead counsel for the region by managing all transactional support for the region, including Mergers & Acquisitions, sales, and distribution, purchasing, financing, international agreements, governance matters, and maintenance of subsidiary fillings for the segment(s).
• Partner with the Corporate Legal teams to coordinate the delivery of corporate legal services in the region; work closely with the Segment General Counsel and corporate business assurance functions to regularly assess activities to ensure compliance and the implementation of processes and trainings.
• Provide regular regional legal and compliance updates to the General Counsel.
• Provide local legal support for Corporate Ethics & Compliance, including investigations, training, and follow up.
• Provide legal support for financing transactions, commercial agreements, international law matters and due diligence for merger and acquisition transactions.
• Provision of legal and business counsel on and review of company restructuring projects related to tax, operational footprint, sales channel strategy, and mergers and acquisition transactions.
• Implement and maintain Labor Representation requirements in APAC locations.
• Provide legal and business counsel on and review of any customs related legal matters, including customer classifications/tariff disputes and reclaims.
• Ensure the enforceability of corporate policies at local legal level, by implementing them in accordance with local law and in local language.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Juris degree in Company Law, Tax Law, Financial Statements, or a related field from an Accredited Law School.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Three (3) or more years of management experience.
• Keen business and financial acumen; ability to scope and scale to the needs of the company and department.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and proven success in presenting complex information to various levels within an organization.
• Ability to travel 25%.

SUPPLEMENTAL

OSHKOSH CORE COMPETENCIES:

Inspires and Motivates Others

• Genuine leader that engages, motivates and inspires others through trust, credibility, and collaboration. Understands how their leadership style impacts others.
• Makes decisions and bold moves in the face of adversity/uncertainty and accepts responsibility for those decisions.
• Helps others discover themselves and has a strong belief in themselves.
• Openly shares their knowledge and experience with others; encourages healthy debate.

Builds Collaborative Relationships

• Understands the products and services of all parts of the business and facilitates the flow of information between them to maintain mutually beneficial relationships.
• Establishes good interpersonal relationship by ensuring that people are valued, appreciated and included. Actively listens to and fully involves others.
• Gets to know people at all levels and adapts their leadership style to engage all team members

Coaches & Develops

• Makes their own and their team members’ development a priority. Gives others a sense of ownership and personal commitment to their work.
• Encourages team members to excel; delegates with development in mind.
• Provides timely and candid feedback in a way that encourages growth.

Encourages Innovation & Inclusion

• Champions and generates creative ideas to improve current thinking, processes and systems.
• Possesses an awareness of current trends and shares this knowledge to improve the business.
• Treats people the way they want to be treated rather than the way you wish to be treated.
• Comfortable working with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions, and perceptions as well as working effectively with all members in the organization.

Aligns Organization

• Brings meaningful purpose, practical strategies and goals together to align achievable results.
• Sets challenging and impactful business objectives, aligns resources, and takes responsibility to achieve results.
• Ensures when decisions are made that all aspects of the business are considered and those impacted understand why.

Drives Strategic Thinking

• Understands the organization functions within a global environment. Spends time and effort on the implications of global business and its competitive elements.
• Builds and communicates a shared purpose, explains “the why” and generates enthusiasm around it to achieve positive results.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts: Contact that requires a high degree of authority in securing understanding and cooperation of multiple departments or interests.

• External Contacts: External contact involving a requirement to maintain a continuing external working relationship with individuals or organizations.
• Communication Skills: Prepare and/or present written communications that pertain to controversial and complex topics; Language: English.
• Decision-Making: Major responsibility for decisions and final recommendation, which may result in the formulation of strategic plans of action to achieve the broad objectives for the organization.
• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving: Work requires the ability to plan and perform work in light of new or constantly changing problems, work from broad instruction, and deal with complex factors not easily evaluated. Decisions require considerable judgment, initiative and ingenuity in areas there is little precedent.
• Supervisory/Managerial: Scheduling, supervision, and evaluation of work as a “manager” of the first line supervisors; or perform supervision of workers who perform distinct and separate blocks of work; Fiscal responsibility.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Physical Demands: Frequent Sitting, Hearing, Visual; Occasional Talking, Typing; Seldom Standing, Walking/Running, Reaching, Climbing, Driving, Bending/Kneeling, Hearing, Visual, Fine Dexterity, Manual Dexterity, Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion.
• Non-Physical Demands: Frequent Analysis/Reasoning, Communication/Interpretation, Reading, Sustained Mental Activity (i.e., auditing, problem solving, grant writing, composing reports, etc.), Writing; Occasional Math/Mental Computation.
• Environmental Demands: Frequent Work Alone, Task Changes, High Volume Public Contact; Seldom Tedious/Exacting Work, Dust, Temperature Extremes, Loud Noises, Physical Danger, and Toxic Substances (i.e., solvents, pesticides, etc.).
• Work Schedule: Routine shift hours. Infrequent overtime, weekend, or shift rotation.
• Demands/Deadlines: High volume and variable work demands and deadlines impose strain on routine basis or considerable stress intermittently; OR regular direct contacts with distressed individuals within the immediate work environment; and/or exposure to demands and pressures from persons other than immediate supervisor.