Legal Counsel (13 Months Contract)

City: Mississauga, Dartmouth

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

We are looking for a brilliant legal mind to join a fast paced, diverse and impactful legal team at Sobeys for a 13-month contract term. As a Legal Counsel, you will review, interpret, and translate legal requirements and effectively communicate with our business and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with and learn from grocery industry leaders at all levels while working as part of a supportive and high performing legal team. This role is ideal for those seeking to enhance an in-house career or to utilize their skills gained at a law firm to experience in-house counsel work.

Here’s Where You’ll Be Focusing

• Provide a broad range of legal services on matters in which Sobeys may be engaged, in order to achieve Sobeys’ goals and minimize legal risk;
• Provide functional legal services to business leaders and other employees across the organization, including supporting Sobeys’ marketing and HR teams;
• Oversee satisfactory resolution of complex, sensitive and sometimes ambiguous legal issues, typically with business risks;
• Advise on legal issues impacting the business, including reviewing, drafting and hands-on negotiation of commercial agreements;
• Direct some legal actions in which Sobeys is involved, either directly or through outside counsel, including management and oversight of outside counsel;
• Assist paralegals and support staff on specific roles and/or provide day-to-day direction.
  
  

What You Have To Offer

• Exceptional communication and relationship building skills;
• Ability to feel comfortable in a retail environment and confident dealing with all levels within the organization;
• Adept at working with outside counsel;
• Ability to proactively provide ideas, advice and solutions relative to legal and business issues;
• Strong analytic, negotiation and situational judgment skills;
• Able to relate to people at all levels, both inside and outside of the organization;
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment;
• 4 to 8 years’ experience gained from role(s) in private practice and/or in-house;
• Experience with marketing and employment law is an asset;
• Strong track record in managing a broad range of legal issues and interacting closely with business leaders;
• Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario or Nova Scotia.
  
  

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.