Associate General Counsel - Commercial Transactions

Duties And Responsibilities

• Serves as a legal advisor to executives and management related to commercial transactions
• Oversees and drives high-value commercial transactions, including cross-border deals, joint ventures, technology partnerships, and strategic initiatives
• Represents the company in negotiations with counterparties on complex, high-profile agreements, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy
• Drafts and negotiates enterprise agreements, including customer and supplier contracts, and manages the contract lifecycle from initiation through execution
• Serves as a legal advisor to Marketing, Digital, and E-Commerce teams, providing strategic counsel on advertising, promotions, consumer protection, privacy, brand, and related regulatory matters
• Serves as a legal advisor on M&A transactions, partnering on all stages including strategy development, due diligence, negotiation of acquisition and ancillary agreements, and post-transaction litigation
• Serves as a legal advisor on M&A transactions, partnering on all stages including strategy development, due diligence, negotiation of acquisition and ancillary agreements, and post-transaction litigation
• Serves as the primary link between their team’s staff and leadership to ensure understanding of company goals, objectives, and opportunities for improvement
• Collaborates across legal department teams to enable efficiencies, effective communications and working relationships with the goal of providing positive business outcomes

Requirements

• Consistently demonstrates the ALDI Acts Competencies as outlined for the role
• Ability to recommend, interpret, and/or apply company policies and procedures
• Has a command and demonstrates attention to detail as well as strategic thought leadership
• Experience with and ability to lead and develop a team of attorneys and professionals
• Advanced knowledge of United States contract law, commercial law, corporate law, and marketing law
• Knowledge of the process for recording, classifying, and summarizing financial transactions in accordance with company, statutory, tax, cost and reporting requirements
• Demonstrates strong business acumen, superior judgment, and excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to identify and implement practical solutions that support business objectives while effectively managing risk
• Knowledge of how legal issues affect organizations and the ability to develop strategies to coordinate legal considerations to business objectives
• Understands cost/benefit analyses. Ability to anticipate legal risks, as well as utilize excellent judgement and analytical skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience with contracts and/or commercial transactions in a legal environment required
• Experience in a law firm, corporate legal department and/or in-house legal counsel required
• J.D. from an ABA accredited law school; licensed to practice in Illinois (or immediate ability to become licensed) required
• Experience leading and developing a team
• Knowledge of contract law, commercial law, corporate law, M&A, and marketing law required