General Counsel

Milacron is seeking a General Counsel to join our team in Batavia, OH. In this executive role, you will partner with the leadership team with a significant impact on business strategy and decision-making. You will play a critical role in ensuring the company always operates within the law, has a pragmatic, hands-on approach to dealing with legal issues, and serves as an effective guardian of the organization. You will identify and analyze legal issues, negotiate, and draft key documents, present clear recommendations to top management and, at times, the Milacron Board of Directors, play a significant role in mergers and acquisitions, and assure legal compliance.

Relocation assistance may be available to those residing outside of the Greater Cincinnati/Tri-State area.

Work You’ll Do:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Serve as key legal advisor in providing a balance of counsel – business, legal, and strategic – to management in a wide range of matters
• Lead and develop legal strategy to promote and protect the organization’s business interests
• Oversee the delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish organizational goals, strategies, and priorities.

Legal Counsel and Advisor

• Develop the organization’s policies on industry-specific issues or regulatory affair
• Assist in due diligence and transaction and document negotiation in connection with mergers and acquisitions
• Oversee complex litigation matters
• Anticipate and mitigate potential legal problems within the organization and develop strategies to avoid litigation and reduce potential areas of risk
• Maintain proper organizational interactions with the relevant country, local, state, and federal governmental bodies, legislatures, and the community at large
• Manage external legal advisors.

Contract Management

• Negotiate, draft, and enforce agreements and other legal documents to ensure the company’s full legal rights
• Provide clarification to the organization regarding legal language or specifications
• Proactively anticipate potential risks and implement mitigation strategies

Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead, engage, develop, motivate, and drive the performance of the legal team
• Create and drive internal best practices and associated training

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly supervises employees.  Carries out supervisory responsibilities per company policies, the Code of Ethical Business Conduct, and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and managing employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualifications - External

Skills/Experience:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience required, with at least 5 years as in-house Legal Counsel of a multinational corporation, and experience leading a legal team preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage litigation required
• Expertise in commercial transactions and contract law required
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity required
• Sound judgment and ability to analyze situations and information required
• Outstanding communication skills required
• Public company experiences preferred
• Experience with data- and cyber-security matters is strongly preferred
• Experience with contract life cycle management tools is a plus
• Demonstrated leadership as a “Doer” and hands-on leader; a player/coach for the team with a passion for learning and who embraces diversity as a core value; with an eye for talent and committed to developing others
• Comfortable operating at all levels within the organization and with multiple and diverse audiences with a high level of diplomacy and gravitas to work effectively with senior and executive leaders.

Education: 

• J.D. from an accredited law school and licensed to practice law in at least one state in the United States with a minimum of 10 years of applicable in-house or private practice experience.

Travel: Up to 25% travel may be required.

Physical Demands:

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. #LI-SC1

Who we are: 

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.  Milacron is an Operating Company of Hillenbrand.

Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.

EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@hillenbrand.com .  In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.  At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".