Corporate Counsel

Lowe’s is one of the largest home improvement businesses in the world, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s longest lasting retailers. And now, Lowe’s is looking for an attorney to provide legal support to our Marketing & Advertising team. 

At Lowe’s, we work with some of the best and brightest minds to deliver powerful and innovative customer programs and experiences, help build and maintain Lowe’s brand by giving back to the communities we serve in meaningful ways, and to stay on the cutting-edge of the latest marketing trends and developments. Whether it is creating an entirely new brand like Origin21, developing our in-house Lowe’s Media Network, building the Lowe’s 100 Hometowns initiative or launching exciting new loyalty offers through MyLowe’s Rewards, Lowe’s seeks to both inspire and to serve our customers along every step of their home improvement journey.  Our legal team is collaborative and the perfect home for inquisitive and creative minds with a desire to continually learn and help build these, and our next generation of, marketing initiatives.

Lowe’s seeks a creative, solutions-minded candidate to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment for a role that will support critical marketing, advertising, and charitable partnership workstreams to drive the company’s continued success as an omni-channel retailer. The primary purpose of this role is to identify legal risks and execute a mitigation plan by understanding legal issues and translating them into easily understood and practical legal advice and counsel to applicable client group, while driving desired business outcomes. This includes responsibility for managing, negotiating, drafting and overseeing a variety of complex and cutting-edge transactional deals and agreements and advising on various customer programs and consumer laws. 

Your Impact

The position will:  review, draft, negotiate and provide business-focused legal advice with respect to a wide variety of marketing, advertising, and charitable and community partnership transactions and contracts (including those involving advertising agencies, talent and influencers, events and other sponsorships across various industries, charitable co-ventures and grants, and marketing tech); establish and update agreement forms; conduct legal research; provide legal advice and counsel on advertising and consumer law issues impacting the business, including advertising legal compliance across various retail programs; develop, draft, or review sweepstakes, giveaways, and similar customer programs’ terms; and help develop, enhance, and maintain customer loyalty, discount, and pricing programs (including drafting or review program terms and conditions, reviewing proposed program structures, and advising on legal strategies to deliver business and program goals). This role supports client groups by providing practical legal advice and recommendations on day-to-day legal issues, enabling the client to meet its business objectives consistent with the Company's risk tolerance.  The ideal candidate is a business-minded commercial attorney who understands business objectives and helps balance legal risks under tight deadlines.  This person is also a creative problem-solver with a great attitude and a team player who is collaborative.  

In addition to having outstanding research and analytical skills, top candidates will have superb communication skills and the ability to concisely explain, clarify and simplify complex information and legal concepts and help build practical, real-world solutions.

What you will do

• Provides legal counsel for and negotiation of contracts related to marketing, advertising, and community relations.
• Monitors developments, including proposed legislation and court decisions related to marketing, advertising, and consumer laws involving retailers, and evaluates impact on operations.
• Recommends and provides legal advice and support to the company’s Marketing organization and other groups in developing, changing, and maintaining various customer programs, including loyalty, discount, and retailer programs, and on related policy and procedural improvements, and providing practical advice in response to rapidly changing conditions.
• Occasionally works with outside legal counsel and orchestrates legal processes on behalf of the company in liaison with outside counsel.
• Works with key strategic external relationships through involvement in industry, community, or civic groups to bring added value to the company.
• Conducts legal research and applies research to facts and is able to communicate the analysis in an easily understood work product to leadership.
• Identifies legal risks and designs plans to mitigate and prevent routine legal risks.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates a variety of agreements and documents and continuously seeks ways to improve the forms, processes, or systems involved.
• Participates in preparing and delivering training, memorandums, and presentations to employees, clients, management, executives, or other members of the Legal Department on legal matters.
• Collaborates on complex projects and supports others in the Legal Department (i.e. attorneys across the Legal Department in order to provide meaningful and practical advice and recommendations to clients)
• Negotiates with outside parties on contractual issues and legal disputes including negotiating key contract terms

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Master's Degree in Law and/or Juris Doctor degree
• 6+ years of relevant experience in a top tier law firm or mixture of relevant experience in top-tier law firm, corporate legal department setting, and/or government agency; experience with negotiating various marketing agreements and advice and counsel on marketing and advertising issues and programs.
• Active state bar member in good standing of at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• 1+ years of experience with public company legal issues, processes and procedures

PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• In-house legal department experience, in-house retail or advertising agency legal department experience, or retail or advertising agency legal experience.

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.