[Hiring] Senior Legal Counsel, Supply Chain Procurement and Operations NA @Brambles

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel – Supply Chain / Procurement to act as a business-facing legal partner across North America, supporting operations, procurement, and supply chain activities. You will partner closely with procurement and operations teams to manage vendor relationships, operational risk, and complex contracting frameworks.

• Provide reliable, cost-effective, and timely legal counsel to business units across a wide array of matters affecting the region and the global corporation.
• Advise on and negotiate commercial transactions, contracts, and agreements with key customers, vendors, and service providers, ensuring alignment with business goals and legal standards.
• Offer strategic legal guidance on major transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a focus on identifying risks and conducting necessary due diligence.
• Manage day-to-day legal issues for business operations, including matters related to plant operations, logistics, asset management, and real estate (e.g., leases, property agreements).
• Anticipate, mitigate, and manage legal risks by providing proactive legal strategies and monitoring emerging legal trends that may impact the business.
• Lead the company’s litigation strategy, manage disputes, and handle intellectual property rights issues, leveraging external counsel when necessary.
• Support the development of company policy, operational improvements, and procedural enhancements by providing legal insights on regulatory compliance and business operations.
• Research and monitor evolving legal issues, using external counsel where needed, to provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction or Canada jurisdiction.
• Bachelor's Degree and qualification from an accredited law school.
• Significant in-house and law firm experience handling procurement, logistics, commercial operations, real estate and/or supply-chain transactions.
• Strong contract drafting, negotiation, and issue-spotting abilities in operationally complex environments.
• Experience supporting fast-paced operating environments, preferably in industrial, distribution, logistics, fleet, transportation, or equipment-based business preferred.
• Strong judgment, executive presence, and ability to work cross-functionally with non-legal stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills and the ability to advise business teams in a practical, solution-oriented manner.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years post qualification experience.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills.
• Business acumen as applied to supply chain contracting and disputes.
• Strong work ethic, coupled with superior multi-tasking capabilities.
• Knowledge of procurement contracting and dispute resolution practices is essential.
• Must be a team player, and highly approachable.
• Strong interpersonal, presentational and networking skills.
• Strong analytical and technical legal skills – including drafting, negotiating, risk mitigation and problem resolution.
• Must be able to work autonomously.
• Dynamic, energetic, positive.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model.
• Maximize work-life balance and flexibility.

Company Description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.