Litigation Counsel

Division Information

Spectrum Brands’s global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

Job Summary

Spectrum Brands is seeking an experienced, commercially minded legal leader to serve as Senior Director, Litigation & Corporate Counsel. Reporting to senior legal leadership, this role will serve as both a hands-on attorney and a strategic advisor to business and functional leaders across litigation, regulatory, commercial, corporate, and risk-management matters.

The Senior Director will lead and manage litigation and disputes while providing practical, business-focused counsel on regulatory, commercial, and business issues.

This role requires an attorney who can partner effectively with senior leadership, regulatory affairs, R&D, sales, marketing, supply chain, operations, and external counsel to protect the company, support responsible growth, and enable strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring large law firm training and meaningful in-house experience.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Litigation Management:

• Lead the strategy, management, and resolution of commercial, product liability, intellectual property, class action, and other significant litigation matters, and drive the efficient resolution of disputes.
• Oversee litigation-related investigations, privilege protocols, document preservation, eDiscovery, and records-management practices.
• Select, supervise, and evaluate outside counsel, discovery vendors, TPAs, experts, and consultants; manage budgets, matter plans, reporting, and legal spend.

Commercial Partner and Other:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial and corporate agreements, including supply, customer, vendor, services, consulting, licensing, marketing, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Other commercial responsibilities based on needs of the business.

Regulatory Duties:

• Oversee regulatory affairs for the Company’s Home & Garden business (primary EPA) including compliance, quality and product safety.
• Experience with EPA regime a significant asset but willing to have the appropriate candidate learn the EPA regime following starting with the Company.

Education and Experience Profile

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
• 6–12 years of progressive legal experience with the experience and expertise identified in this description.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to influence stakeholders across functions, geographies, and levels of seniority.
• Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority matters independently while maintaining attention to detail and business alignment.

Required Skills

• Executive Presence
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Partnership
• Litigation Management
• Regulatory Expertise
• Commercial Judgment

Work Environment

• Work from the office in St. Louis , MO (currently three days in office) preferred, but willing to consider a completely remote employee.

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.