Commercial Counsel

ABOUT ADVANCED ENERGY                   

Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions for mission-critical applications and processes. AE’s power solutions enable customer innovation in complex applications for a wide range of industries including semiconductor equipment, industrial, manufacturing, telecommunications, data center computing and healthcare. Advanced Energy has devoted four decades to perfecting power for its global customers and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

POSITION SUMMARY:                                  

Advanced Energy is hiring for Commerical Counsel. In this role you will be primarily responsible for timely reviewing, revising, and negotiating commercial contracts including all customer contracts and certain real estate leases and vendor contracts. This role will also support the contracts review infrastructure including maintaining templates and playbooks. Commercial Counsel may also provide other Legal department support. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review, revise, and negotiate commercial contracts including all customer contracts and certain real estate leases and vendor contracts within prompt turnaround times.
• Manage priorities across departments to timely close customer, vendor, and other agreements.
• Maintain customer contract playbook and other contracts templates and playbooks, and integrate into contracts lifecycle management system.
• Formulate practical and creative ideas to solve negotiation and progress impediments.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with contract terms.
• Maintain and standardize all terms and conditions that the company uses.
• Work with business colleagues to achieve optimal terms for Advanced Energy with minimal supervision.
• Provide advice to internal stakeholders on contract-related matters, including potential disputes, regulatory compliance, and risk assessment.
• Develop and deliver training programs for internal teams on contract terms and conditions and contracts process.
• Stay up to date with changes in contracts law (including UCC) and assess company’s purchase orders process.
• Perform integration and remediation of acquired companies’ contracts.
• Continuously improve workflows, deal processes, and contract executions to drive operational efficiency.
• Bring structure, uniformity, and efficiency to the legal department’s commercial work.
• Provide other legal team support in particular support restructuring and reorganizing global legal entities.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Location: Denver or Fort Collins, CO
• Environment: Standard office environment, onsite with some flexibilit