Corporate Legal VP

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, The Corporate Legal Vice President will provide executive leadership for the company's corporate legal function, ensuring that legal counsel is delivered in a manner that supports and guides the company's business strategy and objectives. You will serve as a trusted and go-to advisor, offering practical and strategic advice on legal matters affecting the insurance business and the company's overall strategic direction and operational success, and proactively addressing legal issues as they arise.

Primary Accountabilities

• You will safeguard our company's legal and contractual rights and assets by delivering comprehensive legal services across the organization, subsidiaries, and divisions, with a focus on corporate and transactional matters.
• Partner with the Chief Legal Officer to advise the executive team on legal risks, emerging issues, and regulatory developments impacting our business.
• You will oversee all legal components of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions, including due diligence, document negotiation, regulatory approvals, transaction execution, and post-transaction support.
• Provide expert counsel on legal considerations related to business operations, including procurement, agency matters, risk management, benefits and employment law, intellectual property, marketing, cyber-security, and regulatory matters.
• Manage the drafting, review, negotiation, and administration of a variety of corporate agreements.
• You will coordinate with external counsel to address specialized legal matters related to business operations and corporate development.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• Listen and explore nontraditional approaches to problem solving. Take action after assessing alternative courses based on logical assumptions and factual data.
• Interact effectively with employees in all levels of management in identifying and resolving complex issues.
• Interact effectively with others; reach level of agreement with diverse parties and manage conflict that occurs in a heterogeneous group.
• Utilize organizational and industry knowledge to identify problems and opportunities.
• Requires experience leading and innovating corporate-wide strategic initiatives and developing strategic partnerships.
• Demonstrated experience with the handling complex, multi-faceted M&A transactions.
• Significant knowledge of corporate law, including insurance law and regulation, and other relevant legal areas.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with our senior management and external partners.
• Significant levels of experience within the legal, regulatory and/or government affairs functions of an insurance organization.

Education & Licenses

• Juris Doctor.
• Admission to the State Bar in state where located or eligibility for admission to the bar and obtaining admission within a year of hiring.

Travel Requirements

• 15%

Additional Information

• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks

• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions

• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

In this primarily office role you will be expected to work from NHQ in Madison, WI

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We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [email protected] to request a reasonable accommodation.

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