Senior Corporate Counsel, Public Sector

Company: CDW
Location: Reston
Posted on: February 15, 2020

Job Description:

Posted February 04, 2020 Senior Corporate Counsel, Public Sector CDW Reston, VA Full Time - Commercial and Contracts - Compliance - Corporate Generalist - Corporate Governance - Employment - Finance - Healthcare - Labor Relations - Securities - Transactions The Senior Corporate Counsel is an integral part of the CDW legal team and a trusted business partner. This person will be part of a team that acts as business and regulatory counsel to Public Sector Sales that handles a variety of legal and regulatory matters with a focus on Federal Sales matters. The Senior Corporate Counsel provides day-to-day advice and guidance to help each Public sector business segment meet its objectives through a deep understanding of the business, knowledge of the laws and regulations applicable to that business and experience with regulatory matters and contracting applicable to each segment's businesses. Responsibilities - Provide a broad array of legal advice to all Public business segments (Healthcare, State/Local Governments, Federal Government, Education, and Federal Government (Civilian and Department of Defense) with a focus on the Federal Government business. - Collaborate with and advise various internal clients and supporting departments, such as Finance, the Capture Team, Contract Negotiators and Program Management. - Provide leadership and guidance to help the business unit meet its objectives through deep understanding of each business segment and the application of laws/regulations to those segments. - Establish rapport and build positive, trusted working relationships with business unit management and coworkers at all levels to ensure collaboration on the proactive engagement. - Support the business in a variety of regulatory matters, including government protests, security clearance matters and other matters related to all federal, state and local procurement matters. - Serve as a legal-business advisor to help define the structure of complex agreements and significant solicitations or RFP's. - Provide pragmatic legal advice always managing risk through business and legal counsel. - Demonstrate command of current and developing legal and regulatory developments impacting the segment businesses and provide practical training, communication, and advice to CDW management and coworkers regarding such developments. - Collaborate, support and lead various Legal Department initiatives either as a result of issues arising in Public Sector or as a result of Legal Department objectives. Qualifications Education and/or Experience Profile - JD Degree - Minimum 10 years significant legal experience within a corporation or law firm - Licensed to practice law in Virginia, District of Columbia, or Illinois Other Required Qualifications - Proven success in partnering with and effectively counseling internal business clients on a wide array of matters related to doing business with or selling to federal and SLED (state, local and education) with a focus on sales to the federal government including protests. This includes experience with federal regulatory matters and familiarity with FAR/DFAR. - Ability to work autonomously, issue spot and provide incisive, practical and business-focused advice and counsel. - Ability to creatively and resourcefully problem-solve with a pragmatic orientation. Ability to balance strategic and tactical issues. - The ability to juggle competing priorities and adjust priorities as business requires. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely articulate complex legal concepts to non-lawyers and to interact with stakeholders of all levels, including senior management. - The ability to motivate and interface with coworkers at all levels by virtue of keen business acumen, excellent judgment, professional competence, emotional intelligence, credibility, flexibility and personal integrity. - Exceptional interpersonal skills, with an ability to inspire trust and confidence with internal and external stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with a variety of stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications - Former Veteran/Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, JAG Corp.) - Experience with government protests - Technology experience a plus - Experience with FAR/DFAR compliance - Experience with government and education contracting

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