The Prospect: Lead Maple Leaf Foods’ commercial contracting team, including the processes, standards and tools that deliver consistent, high-quality and timely commercial legal support. Facilitate, expedite and guide contracting, negotiation and escalation to the General Counsel, including cross‑functional leadership of Grocery Code of Conduct compliance.
Act as commercial counsel to the business alongside other lawyers, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, matters and disputes.
Lead Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Develop and maintain the enterprise framework and facilitate risk identification, assessment, prioritization and reporting for senior leadership and the Board. Functional leaders retain ownership and management of risks in their businesses and functions.
Reason for vacancy: Existing Headcount
Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life: Commercial contracting: Lead enterprise commercial legal processes, standards, playbooks, training, service levels and portfolio prioritization. Advise priority clients on customer, supplier, technology and services agreements.
Commercial disputes: Oversee key disputes and external counsel, with the General Counsel’s sign‑off to retain external counsel.
Legal operations: Own contracting intake, triage, approval routing,



knowledge management and Icertis from a legal standpoint. Introduce practical AI and automation.
Grocery Code of Conduct: Lead cross‑functional compliance and report to the General Counsel and senior leadership.
Enterprise risk: Maintain a practical ERM framework, lead periodic enterprise risk assessments and synthesize decision‑useful reporting for senior leadership and the Board.
Commercial Contracting Commercial legal process oversight
Accountable for designing, implementing and maintaining processes, standards, playbooks, knowledge management, training and service levels that govern the quality, consistency and timeliness of commercial legal support across the enterprise, and for prioritizing commercial contracting across the portfolio.
This accountability covers the processes and standards for commercial legal work.
Commercial contracting support
Provide support and advice to priority clients on customer, supplier, technology and services agreements.
Commercial disputes
Oversee key commercial disputes, including instructing and supervising external counsel. Retaining external counsel on commercial disputes requires the General Counsel’s sign‑off.
Legal operations

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📌 Associate General Counsel Mississauga - Financial Dr., ON 10/15/2026 (Ontario)
🏢 Maple Leaf Foods
📍 Ontario