Senior Counsel - Global Sourcing

Owens Corning•Toledo, OH

About The Position

The Senior Counsel plays a pivotal role in developing and executing the legal strategy supporting Owens Corning's Global Sourcing organization. The role identifies, assesses, and communicates legal and commercial risks, develops practical risk mitigation strategies, and delivers proactive legal guidance that enables business objectives while protecting Owens Corning's interests. The Senior Counsel leads the negotiation, drafting, review, and implementation of complex sourcing, procurement, commercial real estate, capital delivery, technology, logistics, and other strategic commercial agreements. The role also develops and oversees dispute avoidance and pre-litigation resolution strategies to achieve efficient, commercially sound outcomes, minimize legal exposure, and preserve critical business relationships. The Senior Counsel partners closely with Global Sourcing leadership to support strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier relationships, capital projects, and enterprise-wide business transformation efforts. The individual proactively identifies legal and commercial issues, provides practical solutions, and helps drive informed business decision-making. The Senior Counsel provides strategic, practical, and commercially focused legal counsel to Global Sourcing. The role helps business leaders achieve objectives by providing actionable legal advice, leading complex transactions, resolving disputes, and delivering integrated legal solutions. The Senior Counsel collaborates with Finance, Tax, Accounting, Human Resources, Environmental Health & Safety, Government Affairs, Compliance, Information Technology, and other functional leaders to support complex enterprise initiatives. The role also manages outside counsel relationships and legal spend to ensure effective, high-quality, and cost-efficient legal services. The Senior Counsel continuously seeks opportunities to improve legal service delivery, contracting processes, risk management frameworks, and operational efficiency across the Legal and Global Sourcing organizations. The role leverages technology, data analytics, process improvements, and best practices to enhance efficiency, scalability, and business responsiveness while maintaining appropriate risk management standards. The Senior Counsel contributes to the development of legal talent and strengthens legal and compliance capabilities across the enterprise. The role fosters continuous learning, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to build organizational effectiveness and future leadership capabilities.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one applicable jurisdiction.
A minimum of eight years of legal experience in a corporate legal department and/or a law firm, with significant experience advising on complex commercial matters and business transactions.
Demonstrated expertise in a broad range of legal disciplines, including: Commercial contracting and strategic sourcing/procurement transactions, Real estate matters, including leasing, development, acquisitions, and divestitures, Capital project development, construction, and related commercial arrangements, Government incentives, economic development programs, and public-private initiatives.
Proven ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice, manage risk effectively, and influence decision-making in a complex and fast-paced environment.
Strong negotiation, drafting, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with experience leading high-value commercial transactions and strategic initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of an organization and collaborate effectively with cross-functional business teams.
Business Expertise: Brings a rigorous yet practical business orientation to the legal function, effectively communicating legal challenges in a data-driven and fact-based manner to business stakeholders. Capable of translating business objectives into organizational initiatives.
Commercial Legal Acumen: Possesses strong knowledge of legal issues arising from a heavy workload of varied sourcing, real estate, capital delivery and commercial agreements. Demonstrates prompt issue spotting and recognizes when and how to engage functional experts. Quickly assesses and effectively communicates legal and business risks associated with proposed transactions and/or projects, along with risk mitigation strategies.
Real Estate/Capital Delivery: Exhibits strong legal judgment across real estate, leasing, construction, and capital development/delivery matters. Quickly identifies material project risks, engages cross‑functional experts as needed, and clearly communicates practical risk mitigation strategies to support timely and efficient capital decisions.
Persuasive Communication and Organizational Skills: Clearly conveys relevant information, analysis and ideas with confidence, engaging the audience. Meets deadlines and communicates issues as they arise with specificity, determining actions necessary for timely resolution. Succinctly communicates complex legal issues to business clients, assisting them in making actionable decisions to further business objectives.
Matrix Organization Structure: Effectively navigates, communicates and engages within a complex organizational structure, managing several stakeholders on any given issue.
Business Acumen: Understands company financials (P&L composition, financial statements and corporate finance nomenclature) and leverage this knowledge to influence leaders and drive decision-making.
Inclusive Leadership: Builds and leads a diverse, high-performing team.
Fortitude: Challenges leadership at all levels when faced with potential policy or legal violations.
Strong Organizational Skills: Meets deadlines and communicates issues as they arise with specificity, determining actions necessary for timely resolution.
Global Cultural Competence: Understands, communicates with, and effectively interacts with people across cultures. Is aware of one's own cultural worldview, attitudes towards cultural differences, knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews, and skills to interact effectively. Achieves business results working across and with multinational teams.
Communication: Clearly and succinctly conveys relevant information and ideas with confidence. Adjusts approach to capture audience attention and ensures understanding of the message. Seeks to understand others through active listening.
Collaborative: Able to effectively work as part of a team, sharing responsibilities to resolve a complex challenge or achieve a common goal; respects other’s perspectives, skills and contributions.
Challenge: Has the ability to constructively question, critique, and improve existing processes, strategies, and decisions fostering innovation, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring the organization remains efficient and adaptable.
Judgment and Decision-Making: Recognizes issues, problems, or opportunities and determines appropriate action. Chooses appropriate action by formulating clear decision criteria and evaluates options by considering implications and consequences. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time.
Customer Orientation: Has an external (outside-in) orientation and understands that all business opportunities start with knowledge of how to create value for a customer.
Highly Ethical: Trusted to do the “right thing” for employees, shareholders, and others. Follows a balanced approach without compromising integrity.
Results Oriented: Energetic, resourceful, with a strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to delivering outstanding work. Never satisfied with the status quo, continually striving for excellence. Enjoys hands-on work.
Change Agent: Comfortable designing for the future while managing day-to-day legal matters. Anticipates risks and proposes practical plans to mitigate them. Appreciates the impact of the legal organization and how it is integral to the company’s business strategy.
Adaptability: Responds quickly to the demands of the moment. Flexible and productive when work pulls in many different directions. Maintains effectiveness in various environments.
Accountability: Knows what needs to be done and gets it done. Takes responsibility for the organization as a whole; unafraid of owning the results, actions, and decisions of self or organization.
Enterprise‑Level Thinking: Consistently balances project‑level execution with enterprise priorities, capital discipline, governance requirements, and long‑term portfolio flexibility.
Sound Judgment in Ambiguity: Makes timely, well‑reasoned decisions in complex, fast‑moving environments where facts are incomplete and tradeoffs between speed, cost, and risk are required.
Bias for Action and Results: Drives momentum across deal‑heavy, schedule‑critical initiatives by focusing teams on material risks and enabling progress rather than delay.
Credible Cross‑Functional Leadership: Builds trust and influence across Real Estate, Sourcing, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Tax, and EHS by translating complexity into clear, decision‑ready guidance.
Risk Ownership and Accountability: Goes beyond issue identification to actively shape pragmatic risk mitigation strategies that support business objectives and capital efficiency.
Constructive Challenge: Willing to challenge assumptions, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to improve outcomes while maintaining strong relationships and credibility.
Long‑View, Value‑Creating Orientation: Anticipates downstream impacts of sourcing commitments and real estate structures on future growth, optionality, and organizational resilience.
Business Partnership: Actively seeks to cultivate business-minded approach to legal work; develops detailed understanding of underlying business strategies and short- and long-term objectives and provides candid outside-in feedback to business leadership.

Responsibilities

Serve as a key legal advisor to Global Sourcing leadership and key business stakeholders.
Develop and execute legal strategies that support enterprise sourcing, procurement, real estate, and capital investment objectives.
Identify legal and commercial risks and develop practical mitigation strategies aligned with business priorities.
Lead negotiation and execution of complex commercial transactions while balancing risk and strategic business objectives.
Support Global Sourcing, Commercial Real Estate and Capital Sourcing teams in developing vendor selection and management strategies and processes.
Support strategic initiatives that enhance supply chain resilience, operational efficiency, and enterprise value creation.
Develop and implement dispute avoidance and pre-litigation resolution strategies.
Partner with business leaders to evaluate emerging risks, opportunities, and changing regulatory requirements.
Partner with Global Sourcing, Commercial Real Estate, Capital Sourcing/Delivery, Supply Chain, Operations, and Enterprise Business leaders to support strategic initiatives.
Participate in business planning and decision-making processes to align legal guidance with enterprise objectives.
Lead negotiation, drafting, and administration of complex sourcing, procurement, logistics, real estate, capital delivery, technology, and commercial agreements.
Support Global Sourcing, Commercial Real Estate and Capital Sourcing teams throughout vendor selection and management process.
Drive Global Sourcing compliance with applicable corporate policies and Levels of Authority Policy.
Conduct and oversee compliance investigations and other sensitive matters, as appropriate.
Lead cross-functional teams to address complex legal, commercial, compliance, and operational challenges.
Manage outside counsel performance, legal spend, and matter budgets.
Maintain effective legal matter management, reporting, and documentation practices.
Deliver business-oriented legal solutions that support growth, operational excellence, and risk management.
Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, company policies, and levels of authority requirements.
Identify and implement process improvements that enhance legal and business efficiency.
Champion adoption of legal technology (Icertis), automation tools (AI), and workflow improvements.
Improve contracting processes and reduce cycle times while maintaining appropriate controls.
Support development of contract templates, playbooks, and knowledge management resources.
Promote operational excellence and continuous improvement throughout the Legal function.
Coach and mentor others to support professional growth and performance.
Provide candid, constructive, and actionable feedback.
Support onboarding and development of new legal talent.
Design and deliver legal, compliance, contracting, and risk management training programs.
Promote knowledge sharing and best practices across the Legal organization.
Serve as a role model for collaboration, professionalism, integrity, and business partnership.