Attorney Specialist

Join Ecolab as an **Attorney,**providing legal counsel and services to Ecolab's growth in its Institutional & Specialty, Industrial, Healthcare and Life Sciences Groups to protect and advance the company's competitive position and shareholder value through proactive, cost effective and value-added legal services in the role's specialized areas of law.

The number and complexity of laws and regulations affecting our management and operations require competent, responsive legal advice and services so that corporate objectives are fulfilled. The person in this role will provide management with accurate, responsive and practical legal advice and guidance, with alternate solutions where possible, which meet the company's business objectives and policies; to recommend such measures as will minimize the occurrence of legal problems; to resolve legal disputes with a minimum of cost and loss of management time; and to definitively advise management if a course of business conduct will clearly violate applicable law or corporate policy. This position has a significant role in the shaping of company transactions and conforming them to applicable legal requirements. The position will require the development of credible working relationships with colleagues globally, executives in Naperville and Ecolab’s headquarters in St. Paul, MN.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Commercial Transactions and Contracts
- Review, negotiate and draft a variety of commercial/business contracts and transactions, including product sales agreements, services agreements, master services agreements, purchasing contracts, licensing agreements, equipment lease agreements, joint development agreements, distributor and agency agreements, confidentiality agreements, consortium agreements, manufacturing and tolling agreements and other commercial contracts involving commitments between the Company and its global customers, suppliers and other parties.
- The position will work with other Law Department attorneys, paralegals and other professionals located in Ecolab’s offices globally.
- This position will primarily support Ecolab sales activity across Ecolab’s business groups, sectors and business divisions.

**Basic Qualifications**
- Law degree or equivalent from an accredited university
- 3-5 years of legal experience in commercial transactions preferably in the chemical industry
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including English and Spanish language fluency.
- Ability to prepare well-written correspondence, memoranda, contracts, articles, manuals and critiques
- Ability to effectively plan and manage a heavy workload meeting tight time constraints

Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts in multiple commercial contexts and countries for a large law firm and corporate law department
- Ability to provide timely advice and exercise good judgment
- Ability to counsel, influence and collaborate with others inside and outside the company
- Ability to make comprehensive presentations, participate in formal debate, and communicate before an audience with poise

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, and disabled individuals at all levels of the workforce. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.