This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Group Legal Counsel based in Canada. This is a senior legal leadership role serving as a trusted advisor and strategic business partner to a diverse group of technology businesses.

You will work directly with senior leadership on strategy, commercial decisions, contracts, risk, governance, and major initiatives.

The role combines hands-on legal expertise with leadership of lawyers and contract managers across multiple business units.

You will drive consistency, efficiency, and best-practice adoption across the legal function while strengthening processes and technology.

You will also play an important role in talent development, succession planning, compliance, and high-impact legal matters.

The position offers significant exposure to mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence, transaction negotiations, and post-acquisition integration.

Success requires sound legal judgment, strong commercial instincts, and the ability to influence stakeholders across a global, multi-business environment.

Accountabilities

- Strategic business partnership: Participate in strategy reviews, deal reviews, and key initiatives, providing legal, contractual, commercial, and risk guidance to senior group and business-unit leadership.
- Legal leadership: Serve as the senior legal escalation point for the group, overseeing the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of legal support across multiple business units.
- Commercial and risk advisory: Provide practical legal advice on contracts, business decisions, litigation, high-risk matters, and other issues requiring senior legal judgment.
- External legal support: Build and maintain relationships with specialized external counsel in areas such as employment, intellectual property, and other specialized legal disciplines.
- Legal process optimization: Establish and implement shared legal tools, processes, policies, governance practices, and best practices across business units.
- Technology and AI enablement: Drive adoption and effective use of legal technology, including contract-management platforms and AI-enabled tools, while streamlining and automating workflows from contract intake through execution and filing.
- Talent development: Lead, coach, and mentor lawyers and contract managers, supporting performance management, career development, succession planning, recruiting, engagement, and retention.
- Resource planning:



Work with business and HR leadership to ensure legal resources are appropriately allocated according to business priorities and workload.
- Compliance and reporting: Manage group-level compliance activities and quarterly reporting requirements while maintaining appropriate governance standards.
- Business-unit support: Provide hands-on legal support across business units, including key contracts, litigation, complex matters, and overflow requirements.
- M&A;: Support acquisitions through due diligence, purchase agreement negotiations, transaction resourcing, and integration of acquired businesses and assets.
- Enterprise collaboration: Partner with the broader legal leadership team on global M&A; activities, legal strategy, and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

- Senior-level legal experience with a strong track record of advising businesses on commercial, contractual, corporate, and risk matters.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic business partner, translating complex legal considerations into practical commercial recommendations.
- Experience leading or managing legal teams, including lawyers and contract management professionals across multiple business units or jurisdictions.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracting, corporate governance, compliance, risk management, and legal operations.
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence, transaction documentation, negotiations, and integration.
- Proven ability to develop and implement legal processes, policies, governance frameworks, and operational best practices.
- Experience with legal technology and/or contract-management systems, with an interest in leveraging AI and automation to improve legal workflows.
- Strong coaching, mentoring, talent-development, and succession-planning capabilities.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior executives.
- Sound judgment, commercial awareness, discretion, integrity, and the ability to manage sensitive and high-risk matters.
- Ability to operate effectively in a complex,



distributed, multi-business environment and balance strategic priorities with hands-on legal support.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining high standards of legal quality and service.

Benefits

- Senior leadership opportunity with broad responsibility across multiple technology-focused business units.
- Remote work prospect in Canada.
- Significant exposure to strategic business decisions, commercial initiatives, legal transformation, and M&A.;
- Opportunity to shape legal processes, technology adoption, AI enablement, and best practices across a growing organization.
- Leadership responsibility with opportunities to coach and develop legal and contract-management talent.
- Collaborative, globally distributed environment with exposure to diverse teams, businesses, and markets.
- Opportunities for professional growth, continuous learning, and career development.
- Meaningful work within a technology-focused organization supporting solutions that improve people transportation worldwide.

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📌 Group Legal Counsel (Canada)
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📍 Canada