Contracts/Legal Administrator - Lennox International

Lennox (NYSE: LII) is an industry leader in energy-efficient climate-control solutions founded over a century ago on the principles of integrity and innovation. Dedicated to sustainability and creating comfortable, healthier environments for our residential and commercial customers while reducing their carbon footprint, we lead the field in innovation with our cooling, heating, indoor air quality, and refrigeration systems.

As the Contracts/Legal Admin reporting directly to the Assistant General Counsel – Litigation, Sourcing, Privacy, Contracts, you will support enterprise-wide legal functions, including but not limited to contracts administration and general office administration.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: 

• Support Lennox’s contract-related administrative needs, including handling contract review requests received from business users and providing support to contract management system users company-wide.
• Route contracts and related requests through the review process, coordinating and maintaining clear communication with all relevant parties. Follow up on open requests, audits, and other matters as needed to ensure timely completion of requests. Monitor status of each request.
• Process and generate NDAs from cradle to grave in response to business requests
• Assist with maintenance and system administration of the contract management system.
• Liaise with internal and external parties, including but not limited to: legal department personnel, business users, service providers, and outside counsel.
• Receive contract review requests from various levels of business users.
• Manage and maintain contract-related database.
• Identify and implement process improvement in the contracts administration and legal administration functions.
• Provide attorneys and legal operations professionals with light administrative support upon request, including drafting simple documents and correspondence, PowerPoint presentation creation, meeting/conference call set up, and various administrative duties as requested.
• Book travel, expense reporting, maintain copy room/breakroom, plan meetings, arrange catering and reservations, mail and package handling, and ordering supplies.
• Other duties as requested.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: 

•  Minimum 2-4 years relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• High School diploma; Bachelor's degree preferred
• Experience working with a contract or other database management system
• Skillfully work with Microsoft Office including OneDrive, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other applications and tools such as Adobe Acrobat
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including interacting effectively with people from multi-functional and diverse backgrounds.
• Strong detail-oriented and organizational skills
• Service-oriented attitude
• Experience with contracts preferred
• Experience in a legal environment preferred
• Note: Paralegal certification optional/not required.

WHAT WE OFFER:

At Lennox, we realize that our greatest assets are our employees. This is why we are committed to providing limitless opportunities for growth and development of all our employees, largely promoting from within the organization. Lennox offers employees a variety of flexible work options.  This position is a hybrid role working Monday through Thursday in the office with the option to work on Friday at home.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Excellent medical plans designed to support healthy lifestyles
• Mental and financial health programs
• Outstanding 401k with company match and 1-year bonus 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program 
• Community involvement opportunities 
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• Relocation assistance is available 
• And much, much more!

The compensation range for this position is approximately $62,000 - $82,000 and will be based on the candidate’s qualification, experience, and education

WE VALUE DIVERSITY

Here at Lennox, we believe that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Our goal is to build workplaces that reflect the communities where we live and work, support the growth and development of each team member as they strive to reach their full potential, and empower them to be their authentic selves.  Lennox is an equal opportunity employer.