As the Associate General Counsel, you will lead Maple Leaf Foods’ commercial contracting process and operations, including the standards and tools that deliver consistent, high-quality, and timely commercial legal support. You will also facilitate, expedite, and guide contracting, negotiation, and escalation to the General Counsel, including cross-functional leadership of Grocery Code of Conduct compliance. Commercial Contracting: Serve as the legal counsel for commercial matters alongside other lawyers, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, matters, and disputes. Advise clients on range of contracts including customer, supplier, technology, and services agreements. Commercial Process and Legal Operations Leadership: Own contracting intake, triage, approval routing, knowledge management and Icertis from a legal standpoint. Introduce practical AI and automation. 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. Litigation Advisory: Oversee key commercial disputes, including instructing and supervising external counsel. Enterprise Risk Governance: Continue to develop and maintain a practical ERM framework, lead periodic enterprise risk assessments and synthesize decision-useful reporting for senior leadership and the Board. Identify, assess, and prioritize principal and emerging enterprise risks, material exposure changes, and significant interdependencies. Grocery Code of Conduct Compliance: Provide cross-functional leadership of Maple Leaf Foods’ compliance with the Grocery Code of Conduct. Report to the General Counsel and senior leadership to foster fairness and transparency with commercial partners. Substantial in-house and/or law firm experience in commercial contracting, including customer, supplier, technology and services agreements. Experience in legal operations. Experience working directly with senior business leaders, providing business-focused, practical and commercially sound legal advice. Experience leading enterprise-wide programs, projects or initiatives. Demonstrated experience leading or materially contributing to enterprise-wide risk management, governance, strategic risk assessment or another complex cross-functional risk program, including engagement with senior executives and/or Boards. Robust experience or interest in the use of AI in legal operations and practice. Consumer packaged goods, food or retail-facing industry experience. Experience developing or evolving an ERM framework, enterprise risk assessment, risk appetite or tolerance approach, or Board-level risk reporting.

What We Offer
at Maple Leaf Foods: Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America. Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment. Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, ‘speaker series’ events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career. Supporting our deep commitment to community impact,

we offer
up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice. We’re a carbon neutral food company on a purposeful journey to Raise the Good in Food through better nutrition, safer food and workplaces, more humane animal care, and environmental sustainability efforts that protect our planet. We care about our communities and commit to reducing food insecurity in Canada. We’re passionate about food. For more than 100 years, we’ve made delicious, healthy protein that Canadians love under iconic national and regional brands, like Maple Leaf®, Schneiders®, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co.® We are one of the only food companies in Canada to set science-based targets. We’re a global food company with approximately 10,000 team members. We operate sites in 20+ locations across Canada. Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision and living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values. We believe in building, investing in, recognizing, and rewarding remarkable people who value an inclusive workplace, embrace all forms of diversity, and commit to including every voice in our collaborative environment. They guide the decisions we make for all our stakeholders: our consumers, our customers, our people, our communities, our shareholders, and the environment. High Performance We thank all applicants for their interest in exploring employment opportunities with Maple Leaf Foods; Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision, living

📌 Associate General Counsel, Contracts (Canada)
🏢 Maple Leaf Foods
📍 Canada