Job Description
The Corporate Counsel is responsible for reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing contracts across a wide range of commercial categories, including indirect services such as technology and IT agreements, equipment and tooling, aviation, and logistics, as well as sales-related agreements, distribution arrangements, and other commercial contracts supporting both the buy-side and sell-side of the business. The contracts may involve the purchase of products and services such as supplies, software, SaaS, materials, equipment, and other items. This role will handle work for the procurement teams, the sales teams, and other commercial contracting needs across the business.
The Corporate Counsel is a member of the Law Department who supports the business by providing legal guidance on commercial transactions and contract negotiations. This role serves as a key point of contact between internal business teams and senior legal counsel, ensuring contracts are negotiated, drafted, and executed in accordance with company standards and applicable law.
This position will serve Rheem North America, located in Atlanta, GA (Hybrid). This role follows our hybrid work arrangement, with team members working in the office Monday through Thursday and remotely on Fridays.
- Receive intake requests from procurement managers, sales teams, and other business units; assess contract needs and provide initial legal guidance.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including procurement contracts, vendor agreements, customer contracts, supply agreements, distribution agreements, and sales-related documents.
- Advise business teams on contract interpretation, risk allocation, and legal implications of contractual provisions.
- Review and redline third-party agreements against company templates and negotiation guidelines (where available), ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable laws and regulations.
- Coordinate cross-functional approvals with subject matter experts and ensure compliance with the company’s delegation of authority policies.
- Manage contract lifecycle activities, including tracking authorizations, expirations, renewals, and related correspondence within the contract lifecycle management system.
- Draft and negotiate contract modifications, amendments, and statements of work.
- Identify potential improvements to existing contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes.
- Conduct special projects as assigned, including supporting development of standard contract terms and assisting with legal research as needed.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
7+ years of contracts negotiation experience at a law firm or in-house legal department.
Ability to work in a dynamic environment that requires managing multiple priorities, exercising sound legal judgment, and working effectively across all areas of the company.
- Strong knowledge of contract law, commercial transactions, and general corporate legal principles.
- Contract negotiation experience, preferably in-house, across a broad range of commercial agreements. Experience with technology and IT agreements, equipment and tooling, aviation, and logistics is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of management.
- Proficiency with legal technology tools, including contract lifecycle management systems, Microsoft Office, and legal research platforms.
As a leader at Rheem, how you achieve results is as important as the results you achieve. While LEADING OTHERS, you will be expected to demonstrate the following competencies and behaviors:
- Aligning Performance for Success
- Applying Business Knowledge
- Building Talent
- Building Trusted Relationships
- Communicating with Impact
- Customer-Orientation
- Delegating Tasks
- Executing/Leading the Team
- Facilitating Change
- Fostering Relationships/ Emotional Intelligence
- Influencing
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Supporting Innovation
Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-LS1
At Rheem, we engineer products for life. For home life. For work life. For the life of the planet we all share. Backed by over 100 years of expertise, we’re passionate about product innovation and boldly committed to sustainability. Our full line of global air and water solutions deliver reliable performance, comfort and energy savings for residential and commercial applications worldwide. From engineers to accountants, sales professionals to support experts, Rheem depends on people to power our innovations. Join Rheem and help shape the future of products that impact lives—every day.
Our Behavior Based Values set us apart:
- Listening to Understand – Open mind, learning from others, accepting feedback, embracing the objective
- Contributing Respectfully - Sharing opinions, valuing ideas, sharing opposing perspectives with respect
- Thinking Creatively – Applying creativity, seeking improvements, understanding from the customers’ lens
- Acting with Responsibility – Owning decisions and actions, acting with integrity, embracing accountability
Rheem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Rheem encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The job description above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.
For U.S. Based jobs, please note that Rheem is unable to hire candidates to be employed in the following states: Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Vermont.
Rheem and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.
