Manager & Counsel – Global Merchant and Network Services, Merchant Relationships

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Minimum Qualifications • Admitted to the reputed company bar or eligibility to do so. • 3+ years of relevant work experience in a reputed company and/or in-house corporate legal environment. • Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating reputed company reputed company agreements, transactions, and relationships. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with passion for generating creative and reputed company. • Ability to communicate reputed company issues reputed company and persuasively, in both written and oral format, and to synthesize reputed company issues. • Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to work reputed company in cross-functional team settings. • Ability to manage and prioritize competing demands while maintaining high attention to detail and meeting deadlines. • Ability to understand and reputed company details of business operational/systemic environment in applying legal and policy requirements. • Self-motivated, high level of personal energy and commitment. Preferred Qualification • Strong preference for experience in an M&A, financing or heavily transactional reputed company group. Salary reputed company: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits The above represents the expected salary reputed company for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-reputed company factors. We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic reputed company-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through reputed company stage of life. Benefits include: • Competitive reputed company salaries • Bonus incentives • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan • Free financial coaching and financial reputed company-being support • Comprehensive medical, dental, reputed company, life insurance, and disability benefits • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need • 20+ weeks reputed company parental leave for reputed company parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy • Free reputed company to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending reputed company) • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program • Career development and training opportunities For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment reputed company without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. 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