Commercial Counsel — Ge Vernova Legal Center Of Ef

Job Summary

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is establishing a Legal Center of Efficiency and this is the founding legal role responsible for helping design build and run it. Reporting to the Chief Corporate Counsel and working in close partnership with Legal Operations the successful candidate will provide hands-on legal review and negotiation while standing up a scalable technology-enabled model for handling high-volume repeatable agreements beginning with non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that reduces demand on senior legal resources improves consistency and speeds the business.

The role follows a deliberate phased path: it launches in 2026 with NDAs chosen as the proving ground because they are high in volume largely standardized and comparatively low in risk and it expands from 2027 to additional agreement types across the company. It combines day-to-day legal judgment with a builders mandate setting standards shaping process and technology earning business adoption and demonstrating measurable gains in efficiency capacity and risk reduction.

Job Description

What will you do:

Legal Responsibilities

• Draft review negotiate and provide legal sign-off on NDAs mutual and one-way on GE Vernova and counterparty paper including escalated and non-standard terms that require legal judgment.
• Potential to expand Center of Efficiencys work to a broad portfolio of commercial contracts including customer and vendor agreements master service agreements and other scalable repeatable agreements ensuring alignment with GE Vernovas legal standards and risk appetite.
• Define and maintain risk positions fallback language and approval thresholds for standard and non-standard terms so routine terms clear quickly while genuine risk is reserved for senior legal attention.
• Serve as the designated legal reviewer and escalation point within the support models escalation framework providing timely legal judgment on terms that exceed pre-approved thresholds.
• Ensure practices align with GE Vernovas legal standards risk appetite and applicable regulatory and data-protection requirements.
• Advise the Chief Corporate Counsel and relevant GCs on legal risk trends emerging from volume and negotiation patterns and recommend updates to positions templates and thresholds accordingly.

Process/Operational Responsibilities (in partnership with Legal Operations)

• Contribute legal subject-matter input to the design and documentation of the NDA intake triage and escalation process in partnership with Legal Operations.
• Contribute to the NDA playbook RACI standard templates and training materials that Legal Operations maintains as part of the support model.
• Support adoption across the business business units the General Counsel community and functions such as procurement and commercial teams by providing clear business-friendly legal guidance that builds credibility and trust.
• Support KPI reporting and governance cadence including cycle time escalation rate rework rate legal hours saved and self-service adoption in coordination with Legal Operations.
• Support the controlled pilot and phased rollout of the NDA model and contribute legal input to capacity planning and hiring recommendations as demand is validated.
• Support enablement of self-service and appropriate technology or AI-enabled tools for routine NDAs in coordination with Legal Operations technology enablement track.
• Ownership of process design metrics infrastructure and intake tooling sits jointly with Legal Operations per the platforms operating model; this role provides legal subject-matter input and legal judgment within that framework not sole ownership of the operational build-out. Fine-grained allocation of shared deliverables is governed by the platform RACI.

What will you Bring:

• Bachelors degree in law from an accredited university.
• Minimum 8 years of post-qualification legal experience in commercial contracting with strong command of NDAs and other high-volume repeatable agreements senior enough to set standards and interface directly with GCs and executives.
• In-house or high-volume legal environment experience strongly preferred; comfort operating in a fast-paced evolving build-stage environment.
• Fluency with legal technology CLM and AI-enabled tools and the judgment to deploy them where they create real leverage rather than for their own sake.
• Proficiency in English required; additional language skills a plus depending on region.

What will make you stand out:

• Builder : Energized by a blank page ; you would rather design the system than inherit one.
• Commercially minded: You connect legal work to business speed cost and competitive advantage.
• Track record of building or transforming a legal process function or program not just operating within one; experience standing something up from scratch is highly valued.
• Influential: You win buy-in without authority across legal business and operations.
• Strategic thinker: Able to connect day-to-day contracting work to broader business objectives and commercial strategy.
• Pragmatic and business-friendly: Resolves issues efficiently without unnecessary complexity to keep the business moving.
• - Familiarity with GE Vernovas industry sectors (energy power electrification wind) is a plus.
• Change-management and stakeholder-influence skills to drive adoption of a new way of working across a large global organization.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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