Overview Senior enterprise legal leader responsible for all compensation, benefits, and ERISA governance matters at Walgreens. You partner with executive leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and guide plan design and administration for health, welfare, retirement, and incentive programs. You'll oversee legal support for ERISA matters, and manage external counsel when needed, shaping strategic legal guidance for complex compensation issues. This is a high-visibility role shaping policy, strategy, and risk management at scale.
Responsibilities- Formulate and implement legal strategy for the assigned business division to align with long-term goals
- Serve as senior legal lead and main point of contact for the division on diverse legal issues
- Advise top executives to ensure consistent legal and business approaches
- Collaborate with Legal resources to optimize service delivery and mitigate Walgreens risk
- Identify high-risk areas and create mitigation opportunities
- Drive continuous process improvement and share best practices across Legal Division
- Oversee and mentor legal professionals and support staff, allocate resources, and ensure staff development
- May engage outside counsel for complex issues
- Contribute to leadership and operations by understanding business strategy and industry trends
Key requirements- Juris Doctorate and bar licensure in at least one state
- 8+ years of legal work experience in corporate or private practice
- 5+ years advising senior business leaders
- Experience prioritizing multiple projects and meeting deadlines
- Experience providing customer service to internal/external clients
- Experience developing and executing strategies at the business unit level
- 5+ years contributing to financial decisions in the workplace
- 5+ years of direct or cross-functional team leadership
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
- customer service orientation
- leadership and people management
- strategic thinking
- ERISA governance
- compensation and benefits law
- employment agreements
