Assistant General Counsel

Job Summary

Participates on Associate General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel's leadership team and provides legal support for a business division or legal practice area.

What You Will Do

• Advising senior management and providing clear recommendations on legal matters.
• Managing legal support of a business division or significant legal practice area through upervision of a team, or coordination of a network of attorneys, or serving as a subject matter expert.
• Implementing legal strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives; researching complex legal issues and reviewing and drafting complex legal documents.

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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• 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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• 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.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Discards examples of persuasive argument slacking substance or impact.
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.

Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
• Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
• Details the risks of negotiation break down from each party's perspective.
• Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
• Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
• Detects and addresses lack of progressor a stalemate.

Organizational Leadership: Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate& attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.

Resource Management: Knowledge of the resources required to achieve business objectives; ability to plan, mobilize and distribute resources to fulfill business objectives and plans.

Level Working Knowledge:

• 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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Anticipates and monitors the potential impact of legal decisions within the industry.
• Evaluates legal analysis issues from the perspective of regulatory compliance.
• Develops standard processes to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of legal analysis.
• Guides the work of others through a legal lens.
• Coaches on the adoption of advanced technologies and tools for legal analysis.
• Conducts and documents analyses of a variety of legal issues.

Legal Function: Knowledge of the major responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of the legal function or department; ability to provide legal consulting, advice and assistance.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manages a legal unit or department.
• Contributes to the establishment of best practices for legal services.
• Contributes to the development of legal strategies and plans.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of organizational standards and procedures for the legal unit or department.
• Coaches others on advanced technologies or tools for the legal unit or department.
• Analyzes the use of technology in current and planned legal activities.

How We Support You (Employee Benefits)

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of a variable bonus. Additional benefits include paid annual leave, flexi leave, medical and insurance. (prorated based upon hire date).

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.