Paralegal

About This Role

Our Legal team is seeking a Paralegal to primarily support the Commercial Contracts team. In this role, you will apply your knowledge of job skills, company policies, and procedures to complete a wide range of assignments. Responsibilities include handling tasks that are routine to moderately complex, under the supervision of Senior Counsel and other legal staff.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the Legal Department's primary liaison with Ace's Indirect Procurement, IT contract coordinators, and other departments for contract lifecycle management, including monitoring Ace's contract management system (e.g., Ariba) for new requests and assigning matters
• Develop a working knowledge of Ace's contracts management system and other tools used for the assembly of relevant contract history and the review of contract requests
• Conduct initial reviews of a variety of contracts to identify legal, regulatory, and policy risks, prepare initial redlines reflecting comments, and coordinate with attorneys to ensure alignment with internal standards.
• Conduct interviews with business client to determine details regarding contract request.
• Coordinate contract workflows across Legal, Business, and Data Privacy & Security teams, facilitating effective collaboration and timely resolution of contract-related matters.
• Maintain and update contract templates to reflect evolving business needs, legal requirements, and best practices.
• Follow existing contract workflows, focusing on efficiency, scale, and operational excellence and make recommendations for continuous contract process improvements.
• Support corporate governance activities, including drafting board resolutions, managing Annual Shareholders Meetings, and handling subsidiary formations, dissolutions, and related filings.
• Engage with internal departments and all levels of management, as well as outside counsel, to support legal operations and strategic initiatives.
• Assist attorneys in managing the whistleblower complaint program, ensuring proper documentation and follow-up.
• Review and process outside counsel invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with billing guidelines
• Other matters as requested by Senior Counsel and legal staff.

Required Skills

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Compensation Details :

$74700 - $93600 per year

With a 15% annual incentive opportunity!

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits

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When most people think of career opportunities with Ace Hardware, they often think of the helpful cashiers and sales associates at their local store. However, have you also considered the people behind the scenes who select, promote, ship and process the invoices for more than 75,000 products? Maybe you haven't, but we'd like you to. Because together we help our customers take care of their homes. Come find out why a career with the Ace Hardware Corporation is one of America's best kept secrets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ace Hardware Corporation is committed to a policy of promoting equal employment opportunities. The company recognizes the importance of diversity and leveraging the skills and talents of all people to the mutual advantage of each individual and the organization. The company is committed to the prevention of employment discrimination related to race, religion, color, sex (including sexual harassment), gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability and military or veteran status, sexual orientation or any other action covered by federal or applicable state / local laws.

Disclaimer

The pay range for this position starts as listed in the job posting, but could be higher based on education and experience. Please note, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each opening. We take into consideration the minimum requirements outlined in the job description, such as an individual's education, training and experience, the position's work location, required travel (if any), and external market conditions when determining the final salary for potential new hires.

Be aware that salary estimates published via alternate online job boards may not be a true representation of the actual pay range offered for this position. Please refer to the Ace position description for the accurate starting pay range information and feel free to discuss this with a Talent Acquisition professional if you are chosen to move forward with an interview.

This written "Position Description" is not intended to cover all aspects of the position listed. It is meant to cover the basic / general essential job functions of a particular position. Ace Hardware Corporation reserves the right to change job duties, including essential job functions, according to business necessity.

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