Company Description We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable. Job Description About the Role The Lead Counsel at Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (“EES”) will primarily oversee client and supplier contracts across all EES businesses, including AIR Worldwide and Analyze Re[1] units (https://www.air-worldwide.com/), Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research (“AER”) (https://www.aer.com/), and Verisk Maplecroft (“Maplecroft”) (https://www.maplecroft.com/), which, collectively, have offices in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, India, Singapore, China, and Japan. EES Lead Counsel will also be the point of contact for all legal and compliance-related issues impacting EES, offer guidance on these matters and/or confer with the appropriate legal and compliance professionals at our parent company, Verisk Analytics, Inc. (https://www.verisk.com/), to address and resolve those issues. You will report to the Chief Litigation Counsel at Verisk based in Jersey City, New Jersey, Verisk’s headquarters. You may be called on to collaborate with personnel at any number of Verisk’s subsidiary entities as the need arises. EES is a leading provider of sophisticated, scalable data-driven insights to clients in the insurance and reinsurance industries, governments and quasi-government entities and large corporations looking to understand their exposure to extreme property-loss events like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, casualty events that give rise to large-scale liabilities to policyholders and others, as well as socio-economic and geopolitical risks such as corruption, human rights abuses, supply chain disruptions, political instability and other critical ESG-related events. Responsibilities You will work directly with the senior executives at EES. You will also have regular contact with our functional business leaders, business development team members, insurance-linked securities team, data security and privacy team, and with our IT group. They will rely on you to pull contracts together and steer the contracts to signature, to create/revise templates as needed, and to answer legal questions of all types when they arise. In these capacities you will also have extensive contact with both clients and suppliers, and be negotiating terms and conditions that account for our business interests. You will have a senior contracts manager, specifically for AIR, reporting directly to you to help you organize, draft, negotiate and process the contracts and to deal with the financial side of AIR, to ensure that we send invoices to clients and payments to our vendors. Your ability to work efficiently and effectively with EES’ teams and with a demanding set of clients and senior executives is essential. You will take a pragmatic business approach to legal issues to get your work done, focusing on what is really important to EES in order to move contracts along, balanced with an ability to spot and weigh risks in the contracting process. This job is located in our Boston, MA office and is a hybrid position. EES Lead Counsel will be expected to be in person and on site at least three days a week with the option of working remotely for the remaining two days. Qualifications Required: <ul> <li>At least five years of experience negotiating various types of consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and software licenses, including service-level commitments that come into play on cloud-hosted software solutions for our clients.</li> <li> Experience with intellectual property protection.</li> <li> A basic grounding in finance.</li> <li> At least two years of experience with a contract-management system.</li> <li> Proficiency with Word and Excel.</li> </ul> Preferred: <ul> <li> Two or more years of experience with Salesforce, which is where we store data on contract opportunities and on revenue allocations.</li> <li> A solid understanding of insurance policy terms and the insurance and reinsurance industries in general.</li> <li> Experience partnering with and advising senior executives on a host of legal issues.</li> </ul> Education: <ul> <li> Minimum 5 years of relevant legal experience.</li> <li> A law degree from an accredited law school in the U.S.</li> <li> CPCU and Lean Six Sigma certifications are welcome but not required.</li> </ul> Additional Information In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list. For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable. Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows. Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate. <ul> <li>Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other</li> <li>Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes</li> <li>Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries</li> </ul> Verisk Businesses Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events. Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work. Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer. All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. http://www.verisk.com/careers.html Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. HR CCPA Privacy Notice.pdf #LI-MV2 #LI-Hybrid

Senior Counsel

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