Corporate Counsel

Position overview

We seek an experienced, collaborative, and business-minded Corporate Counsel to join our legal team. This high-impact role serves as a key advisor to the General Counsel and internal business partners across the organization, providing legal advice on a wide variety of matters. The successful candidate will collaborate well with others and exercise good judgment in balancing legal risk and business needs.

Rosen’s Diversified is a family-owned business established in 1946 with about 5,000 employees. Over the years, we have grown into a company of vertically integrated business units, which operate primarily in the meat processing, crop protection, transportation, and life sciences industries. We are a culture of innovative, hard-working people who care about each other and are proud of being a family-run business.

What you’ll do

• Provide strategic and day-to-day legal advice to business leaders and internal stakeholders on a broad range of topics, including commercial contracts and transactions, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, litigation management, employment and labor issues, transportation and logistics, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance
• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of agreements and legal documents
• Manage litigation and despute resolution, including coordination with outside council
• Advise leadership on relavant legal and regulatory developments affecting the business
• Support the development and implementation of company policies and procedures
• Provide training and guidance to internal teams on legal matters as needed
• Develop a deep understanding of the business and build strong working relationships with stakeholders across all departments
  

What you’ll need

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Active license to practice law in Minnesota or Wisconsin
• Minimum 5 years of legal experience, either in-house or at a law firm
• Significant experience handling legal issues relevant to a generalist role (contracts, transactions, litigation, compliance, employment, etc.)

What will help

• Experience in food, agriculture, or transportation industries

Skills

• Ability to develop practical solutions that mitigate legal risks and align with business objectives
• Collaborate well with others to achieve results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey legal considerations to non- lawyers in a plain and relatable manner
• Self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision, and assume significant responsibility for handling a wide variety of legal matters
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to quickly prioritize and manage multiple projects with different stakeholders
• Leverage technology to improve efficiency and quality of work product
• Strong skills with Microsoft 365 tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and document management systems
• Sound professional judgment and a positive attitude
• Be hard-working, diligent, friendly, adaptable, and willing to help with any project

Job expectations

• Some travel (up to 10%) to manufacturing sites and office locations (primarily within the Midwest)
• Position is primarily in office

What we offer

• $165,000 - $225,000 a year. Base pay will vary depending on many factors, including experience, skills, and knowledge
• Position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus
• Health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and a variety of voluntary benefit options
• 401(k) retirement benefits with annual discretionary Company match

INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS

Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring that the hiring process is fairly administered and that qualified employees are selected. All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.