Senior Counsel, Legal, Infrastructure Solutions Group

Lenovo•Morrisville, NC

4d•$176,300 - $270,365•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will serve as the lead legal advisor on complex, high-value, and strategic transactions within Lenovo's rapidly growing Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), including transactions involving server, storage, cloud/cloud service provider, AI, software, networking, data center, and infrastructure solutions throughout North America. The successful candidate will structure, negotiate, and drive sophisticated commercial transactions from opportunity through execution and post-execution support, partnering closely with business leaders to facilitate implementation, manage evolving contractual issues, support customer and partner relationships, and enable continued business growth while appropriately managing legal and commercial risk.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
12+ years of experience negotiating and leading complex technology, infrastructure, cloud, cloud service provider, storage, software, telecommunications, or strategic commercial transactions, including enterprise customer engagements and multi-jurisdictional agreements
Demonstrated commercial management experience with a strong understanding of the key drivers of profitability and growth
Strong contract drafting, negotiation, issue-spotting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently manage sophisticated transactions from inception through execution and post-signature support
Strong knowledge of commercial contracting, intellectual property, technology licensing, data privacy, and related legal concepts
Proven ability to advise senior business leaders and influence strategic decision-making in a fast-paced, global environment
Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, servers, storage, networking, cloud, cloud service providers, AI, software, high-performance computing, and related technology offerings
Experience negotiating strategic partnerships, channel agreements, OEM arrangements, cloud ecosystem transactions, and other complex commercial agreements
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving, and growth-oriented environment
Comfortable negotiating directly with sophisticated enterprise customers, strategic partners, cloud service providers, channel partners, and other third parties
Strong team player who builds trusted relationships with business clients and internal stakeholders
Solid project management and cross-functional leadership skills
Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to balance legal risk while enabling revenue growth and business objectives
High degree of professional ethics, integrity, and executive presence
Excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical, and judgment skills
Ability to anticipate, assess, mitigate, and proactively manage legal and business risks
Ability and willingness to travel as business needs require
Juris Doctor (JD) degree
12+ years of legal, contracts, and/or procurement experience

Responsibilities

Serve as the lead attorney for complex, high-value, and strategic ISG transactions, developing transaction structures, leading negotiations, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, managing outside counsel where appropriate, and driving transactions from opportunity through execution while balancing legal risk and business objectives
Provide legal support and strategic guidance for ISG transactions, initiatives, and business operations
Develop a deep understanding of existing contractual commitments and obligations for ISG customers
Partner closely with the ISG business across Product, Sales, Strategy, Alliances, and Business Development teams
Advise the ISG business on a broad range of commercial, regulatory, data privacy, intellectual property, technology, and operational legal issues
Collaborate with internal and external counsel, subject matter experts, and key business stakeholders to support business objectives
Work closely with Lenovo legal teams and ISG business leaders across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific
Lead and negotiate large, complex infrastructure, cloud/cloud service provider, storage, AI, software, technology, and strategic commercial transactions
Provide ongoing support following contract execution, including interpretation of contractual obligations, management of contractual disputes, negotiation of amendments and change orders, issue resolution, and support of key customer, supplier, alliance, and cloud service provider relationships
Partner with the Global Contracts Team to develop and maintain contracting frameworks, playbooks, templates, and scalable transaction support processes for ISG
Effectively identify legal risks and engage the appropriate legal subject matter experts across the broader Lenovo Legal Department
Work efficiently to supplement internal resources across Lenovo geographies with advice from outside counsel as needed
Draft and maintain standard templates supporting infrastructure offerings, software solutions, channel programs, strategic technology partnerships, and other ISG business initiatives
Work with the Contracting Center of Excellence (COE) to establish and maintain a comprehensive library of infrastructure and technology templates that are easily accessible and regularly updated