Deputy General Counsel, Global Head of Legal Enablement & Strategic Transactions

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected.

As Deputy General Counsel, Global Head of Legal Enablement & Strategic Transactions, you will lead the Legal and Compliance Organisation's Enablement and Strategic Transactions function, with a dual mandate.

The first is modernising and running legal and compliance operations, meaning the processes, technology, metrics, and workflows that allow the legal and compliance department to operate efficiently at scale.

The second is embedding strategic legal counsel directly into the business to identify, structure, and create value for Sedgwick and its clients.

This role serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders across Sedgwick's claims and risk administration operations, translating complex commercial, technology, and transactional matters into practical guidance.

Responsibilities

Legal and Compliance Operations Leadership

• Ensures legal and compliance functions operate as generators of enterprise intelligence, with enhanced feedback loops, agile processes, and execution focus.
• Designs, builds, and runs the legal and compliance department's operating infrastructure, including budgeting, outside counsel management, matter management, legal technology, workflow design, and performance metrics.
• Identifies and leads adoption of legal and compliance technology, including AI-enabled tools, to improve efficiency, consistency, and visibility across the department.
• Develops and tracks department-wide metrics and reporting to demonstrate the legal and compliance function's impact and support data-driven decision-making.
• Manages outside counsel relationships, budgets, and alternative fee arrangements to control cost and ensure value.
• Oversees knowledge management, contract templates and playbooks, and training to standardise and scale legal and compliance support across the enterprise.

Strategic Transactions & Commercial Counsel

• Embeds as a strategic partner within key business units, advising on commercial transactions, strategic partnerships, and new business and product initiatives.
• Structures, drafts, reviews, and negotiates complex commercial agreements, including client, vendor, technology, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Partners with business leaders to identify legal and structural opportunities to create value for Sedgwick's clients.
• Advises on mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions as needed.
• Anticipates legal and regulatory risk in new and evolving business lines and proposes creative, business-minded solutions.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Travels as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provides support, guidance, leadership, and motivation to promote maximum performance.
• Administers company personnel policies and follows company staffing standards and training recommendations.
• Interviews, hires, and establishes colleague performance development plans.
• Builds and leads a team spanning legal and compliance operations professionals and commercial/transactional attorneys.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school required.
• Active license to practice law and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar required.
• Fifteen (15) or more years of progressively responsible legal experience, including significant experience in legal and compliance operations, complex commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic business advisory.
• Demonstrated experience leading legal teams and advising senior executives within a complex, highly regulated and/or multinational organisation.
• Experience with artificial intelligence, privacy, data governance, and legal technology preferred.

Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Experience with legal and compliance technology and operations best practices.
• Experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements and M&A transactions.
• Working knowledge of AI, privacy, and data governance law.
• Analytical and interpretive skills.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills.
• Proven management/leadership skills.

Work Environment

• When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.

Pay Transparency

• The range of starting pay for this role is $240,000 - $300,000.
• A comprehensive benefits package is offered, including medical, dental, vision, 401k and matching, PTO, disability and life insurance, employee assistance, flexible spending or health savings account, and other additional voluntary benefits.