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In January 2024, Livent merged with Allkem Limited to create Arcadium Lithium plc. While we work to integrate our technology systems, including our recruitment platforms, Arcadium Lithium plc will use Livent’s ADP system to capture all candidate information.

About Arcadium Lithium: We are change-makers, joining forces to drive progress. A world enabled by the critical mineral, Lithium - the elemental source powering modern life and our global transition to clean energy.

For decades, we’ve grown alongside and collaborated with our people, our customers, and communities. Pioneering, collaborating, and evolving Together.

From the birth of the first lithium-ion battery to the breakthrough lithium advancements that have followed. We've helped lead the change, powering the future of lithium innovation.

Our growth continues to be strategic, expansive, and sustainable. With a wealth of premier lithium resources spread across the world in key locations. We can reliably, safely, and responsibly provide the resources to meet the diverse needs of our customers.

No matter where they are. No matter the challenge. It's all about delivering on the high expectation for quality, performance, and sustainability.

And our duty goes even further. It includes everyone on the planet using a lithium-powered device or vehicle.

Every battery charged. Every device powered. Every lithium application utilized. Underscoring our commitment to quality, collaboration, and our shared vision of powering a more sustainable future for everyone.

Arcadium Lithium is more than just a company. It's a promise, and a commitment by our people.

To act ethically and responsibly, ensuring that our legacy is one of positive impact and lasting change.

Position Summary : The Senior Commercial Counsel will have significant experience in commercial contracting and strong legal drafting and negotiation skills. This is a front-line role for a confident, proactive, business-minded lawyer that can independently manage highly diverse work and demands from all levels of the organization in an efficient and practical manner. This role will report to Arcadium Lithium’s Assistant General Counsel, US & Strategic Transactions and will serve as the primary legal contact for the Global Sales and Marketing Teams.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Draft and advise on commercial sales agreements, with an emphasis on agreements for product sales, distributor and sales agency arrangements, and nondisclosure agreements.
• Draft and advise on agreements for the marketing team, including nondisclosure agreements and agreements for gathering market intelligence.
• Draft and advise on agreements related to commercial collaborations and other strategic commercial transactions.
• Counsel clients on commercial contract interpretation, disputes, enforcement, processes, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identifying antitrust issues and working with expert counsel to resolve them (based on at least a broad understanding of antitrust laws).
• Review and advise on product quality agreements and assist with the completion of customer certifications, questionnaires, and audits.
• Support ethics and compliance programs as they relate to commercial matters, including providing guidance on third party due diligence and compliance training with respect to Arcadium Lithium’s corporate delegation of authority and contracting policies, competition law, conflicts of interest, etc.
• Provide support on special projects, such as the development of contract templates and commercial processes and procedures, supporting commercial due diligence and commercial integration activities for M&A and other strategic transactions.

Education And Experience

• JD or LLB from a leading US accredited law school
• Current Bar membership in a US jurisdiction
• A minimum of 10 years legal experience, with a proven track record in a corporate law department of a law firm and significant commercial contracting in-house legal experience
• Considerable commercial experience; sound negotiator

Knowledge And Skill Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively address and influence all levels of the organization, including the ability to effectively communicate how an issue impacts Arcadium Lithium from both a business and legal perspective
• Ability to work independently handling multiple priorities within deadlines as well as anticipating needs and priorities and initiating and coordinating actions
• Broad experience in drafting contracts and other legal documentation
• Ability to prioritize and manage complex issues and projects that have significant business impact
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to give immediate answers from accumulated knowledge and experience without the opportunity to research the law
• A practical, hands-on approach to the practice of law
• A business partner, who likes working side-by-side with businesspeople, and is receptive to opposing views
• Self-starter, with the ability to work well both independently with minimal supervision and as part of a highly collaborative and an international team, in a fast-paced cross-cultural environment
• Active experience in directly counseling senior management teams with respect to compliance and ongoing legal issues
• A general understanding of, or an interest in, manufacturing operations
• International/global experience a plus

Safety Requirements: All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Personal Protective Equipment: Must wear PPE as required based on job duties or when traveling to locations where PPE is essential.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ARCADIUM LITHIUM employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career.

ARCADIUM LITHIUM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.