Description:
Working at A Canadian Fertilizer Company will provide you an opportunity to help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career.Reports to the Assistant General Counsel, Nitrogen and Phosphate.
What you will do:
- Provides Nitrogen and Phosphate wholesale business units with legal advice on a broad range of matters necessary to the business, including environmental and safety matters, contracts, agreements, real estate transactions, disclosure and regulatory reporting issues, crisis management and communications.
- Serves as a strategic partner and leader in the Nitrogen and Phosphate business units providing guidance on legal implications of critical decisions.
- Review and manage litigation and negotiating proposals, letters of intent, term sheets and conditions, and statements of interest with respect to proposed transactions.
- Provide input on the decisions of whether to retain external counsel and assist in the oversight of same when retained.
- Advise on environmental, safety and security requirements, permitting and compliance and incident response and privileged investigations, and provide counsel on other regulatory matters as needed.
- Draft and negotiate goods and services agreements, engineering and construction contracts, real estate transactions and other contracts as necessary for the business.
- Provide advice on land matters including the acquisition/disposition of properties and the creation of new unit agreements.
- Initiate and manage privileged investigations as necessary.
- Contribute legal assistance to tax group in inter-company agreements and financing and other corporate functions as requested.
- Comply with all Company standards, policies and procedures pertaining to appropriate conduct for employees, including the Statement of Core Values and Code of Business Conduct; the Respect in the Workplace Policy; Safety, Health and Environment Policies; and any other applicable standards, policies and procedures as implemented and/or revised by the Company or by legislation.
What you will bring:
- The individual must be a licensed Attorney in the US.
- At least 7-10 years in a business environment in counsel capacity or comparable law firm experience
- Experience working directly with business executives and operations.
- Strategic and practical
- Assertive, adaptable, creative and flexible.
- Ability to analyze and extrapolate information and have strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a critical team environment.
- Ability to identify risks and propose alternative structures to mitigate.
- Ability to handle multiple and varied legal projects simultaneously.
- Skills to manage external counsel.
- Excellent decision-making skills, must be able to lead problem solving, perform independently yet still work in a team environment, and take initiative.
- Skills and experience in corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions.
- Skills and experience with environmental and safety compliance and permitting and incident response and privileged investigations.
- Prior experience in project management.
- Excellent analytical research and documentation writing skills as demonstrated by past draft examples.
- MS Word, WordPerfect, Outlook and Excel required; MS Project preferred.
