# Senior Legal Counsel - Contracts Center of Excellence

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, MN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $188,251 - $230,084
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Senior Legal Counsel – Contracts Center of Excellence, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.

Responsibilities:

- Draft, review, and negotiate complex intellectual property agreements, including technology development, licensing, confidentiality, joint development, collaboration, data, software, and other innovation-related agreements.

- Provide legal support for a broad range of transactional matters, including information technology, procurement, supply chain, services, outsourcing, and other commercial agreements.

- Advise business teams on intellectual property ownership, licensing, use restrictions, confidentiality, data rights, technology transfer, software, cybersecurity, and related contracting risks.

- Develop practical, business-oriented contracting strategies and risk mitigation approaches for transactions of significant complexity, strategic importance, or cross-functional impact.

- Perform legal and factual research, including analysis of contract terms, legal requirements, market practices, and internal contracting standards.

- Work independently on matters of significant complexity or importance while exercising sound legal judgment and escalating issues when appropriate.

- Provide legal services to medium to large complex businesses and collaborate with stakeholders across Legal Affairs, intellectual property, sourcing, IT, privacy, compliance, finance, and business teams.

- Lead transactional processes for matters of significant impact and/or complexity, including coordinating cross-functional reviews, resolving negotiation issues, and supporting timely execution.

- Serve as a subject matter resource in Intellectual Property contracting and licensing.

- Support continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, negotiation guidance, and contracting processes within the Contracts Center of Excellence.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start).

- Seven (7) years of law firm and/or in-house intellectual property experience in a private, public, government or military environment.

- Juris Doctor degree (completed and verified prior to start).

- Member of a United States bar in good standing.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited university in math, physics, engineering, science, IT, or equivalent experience.

- Knowledge and experience with AI tools and technologies including contracting technologies.

- Business acumen and an ability to provide legal advice in the context of strategic business initiatives and goals.

- Highly effective written and verbal communications skills, with an ability to communicate and relate at all levels of the organization including business line leaders, regional heads and senior management.

- Results-orientated approach; personal and organizational accountability; and a collegial work style.

- High energy and a dedication to responsive client service.

The expected compensation range for this position is $188,251 - $230,084, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

## Skills

### Required
- intellectual property
- contract negotiation
- legal research
- communication

### Nice to have
- AI tools and technologies
- contracting technologies
- business acumen

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