Senior Corporate Counsel

Role Overview

• Serve as the primary day-to-day legal advisor to the AMC segment and as second-in-command to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC.
• Act as a trusted legal and business partner to segment leadership, sales, supply chain, quality, operations, and engineering teams.
• Serve as a go-to legal resource for routine and complex legal questions across six AMC divisions.
• Lead and support negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of customer, supplier, distributor, and strategic commercial agreements — including large, cross-division and cross-segment agreements.
• Advise on contract structure, pricing, risk allocation, liability, warranty, quality, delivery, indemnification, and termination provisions.
• Support contract execution and lifecycle management, including active enforcement of contract rights on pricing, IP, delivery, and quality obligations.
• Lead and support commercial enforcement matters, including collections on overdue customer payments and enforcement of contractual rights through demand letters and escalation.
• Advise on and support alignment of customer contract risk with downstream supply chain obligations.
• Provide guidance to and support the contract specialist team to drive consistency, efficiency, and adherence to standard processes and playbooks.
• Support commercial and operational matters involving aerospace, defense, and government-facing customers across AMC's five divisions.
• Demonstrate a working understanding of the government contracting environment, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-down requirements, audit exposure, and supplier obligations.
• Serve as first-line legal advisor on segment-related commercial disputes, claims, quality issues, warranty matters, supply chain disruptions, and customer escalations.
• Partner with head of litigation, internal business stakeholders and outside counsel on segment-specific pre-litigation matters, contract-related matters, litigation support, and government contracting matters.
• Collaborate with EHS, Quality, Trade Compliance, Real Estate, and other functional teams on legal issues impacting operations, regulatory compliance, and strategic initiatives.
• Identify recurring risks, inefficiencies, or friction points and drive improvements in contract templates, processes, and legal workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, with strong and effective drafting skills and significant responsibility for customer and supplier contracting.
• JD from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, industrial, or government-facing manufacturing businesses is required.
• Demonstrated experience and high understanding of the government contracting ecosystem, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-downs, audits, and the legal risks of operating as a government supplier.
• Experience advising on commercial matters, including disputes, quality issues, warranty claims, EHS-related matters, and operational risk.
• Experience in a publicly traded or highly regulated environment preferred.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and risk assessment.
• Practical business acumen, driving pragmatic business-oriented solutions.
• A highly approachable, collegial, and collaborative approach.
• Accountable and proactive self-starter, comfortable working independently.
• Superb organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance