Legal Claims and Contracts Management Specialist

Job Title: Legal Claims and Contracts Management Specialist 

Job Location: Wickliffe, OH

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: Hybrid

 

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

 

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist 

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You'll Do:

As a Claims and Contracts Management Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, managing litigation and related matters for the company, assist in the negotiation and drafting of contracts, and manage other discrete matters handled by the company’s Legal Team. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

 

What We're Looking For:

• Assists senior Legal Team attorneys in directing strategy for litigation matters and other disputes to which the company is a party.
• For filed matters, maintains responsibility for U.S. litigation discovery process, managing written discovery, document review and production, and overseeing electronic discovery procedures.
• Oversees and directs the company’s response to all subpoenas.
• Manages outside counsel to ensure implementation of strategy and monitors the progress of litigation matters, working at the direction of senior Legal Team attorneys.
• Negotiates, prepares, and reviews sales and procurement contracts at the direction and under the supervision of senior Legal Team attorneys.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Procurement and Sales teams to understand contract needs, goals, and risks involved.
• Develops metrics to demonstrate performance of the Contracts team to ensure efficiency and identify improvement opportunities, providing necessary reports to senior Legal Team attorneys.

 

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university and JD or equivalent law degree required.
• 2+ years assisting in the handling of litigation matters and disputes at a corporate law firm or in-house corporate legal department, demonstrating a broad array of experience in matters affecting a large and diversified company.
• Experience drafting and negotiating contracts. 
• Candidate must