Commercial Counsel, Canada

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.
You are responsible for the company's legal activities in a region, business units and /or sub-function areas in the country or across multiple countries. To support commercial and corporate initiatives, you identify business needs and design and implement our legal strategy through the service delivery model. You advise the business on risk, anticipating and addressing internal and external factors and apply your legal specialty area experience to collaborate with other legal colleagues to address legal issues or concerns.
How you will contribute
You will develop and ensure the implementation of legal strategies to enable Mondelēz International to compete aggressively, and protect our people, assets and reputation while complying with legal requirements and standards of ethical conduct. You will provide guidance and support to ensure managers are making reasonable and informed decisions regarding legal risks; manage the legal strategy with outside counsel, including spending without compromising financial and reputational risk; and provide in-house and external legal expertise to address the increasingly complex legal environment by partnering with business units, regions and global stakeholders to identify and advise on applicable laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
• Strong analytical, strategic vision, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Experience assessing, advising on risk, advising/coaching and dispute resolution in a multinational company
• Highest level of integrity and trust; highly credible and willing to express
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Resourcefulness, including relevant new technologies and systems
• License to practice law in relevant jurisdiction(s)

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Excellent communication skills (written & oral), including the ability to translate complex legal analysis/advice into straightforward concepts and recommendations for the business.
• Ability to provide timely, strategic and practical advice for various commercial matters, including marketing and advertising, product and sales regulatory, contests and competition law.
• Strong background in providing legal review and advice on a wide range of contracts, including sales, procurement, supply chain, logistics, media, licensing and sponsorship.
• Ability to providing legal support on traditional and digital marketing and media strategies including social media, e-commerce, social commerce, influencer strategies and compliance.
• A strong commercial mindset to partner with marketing, nutrition/regulatory in developing and reviewing claims and claims support for products.
• A solid foundation in corporate governance, including providing support for any corporate transactions and tax matters in this area.
• A curiosity and willingness to jump in and explore emerging areas of the law including privacy, influencer marketing, sustainability and AI.
• An interest in tracking key legislative proposals and keep the commercial team informed of any new regulations that may impact their business areas; designing and delivering training modules on new and emerging areas for the commercial team.
• The ability to manage outside counsel as required to support strategic business initiatives.

Education / Certifications:
Degree Required: JD or LLB from an accredited Canadian law school or its foreign equivalent. Admitted to practice law in the Province of Ontario and in good standing with the Law Society. Admission to practice law in the Province of Quebec would be an added benefit.
Job specific requirements:
Minimum 5-7 years of law firm or in-house experience (combination of both preferred). Consumer packaged goods (CPG) experience preferred.
Travel requirements:
95% within the Greater Toronto Area, including occasional travel to manufacturing sites. 5% travel for additional meetings that may occur elsewhere in Canada or abroad.
Work schedule:
Hybrid work schedule.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.
Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.
Job Type
Regular
Legal Business Growth Partners and Services
Legal