GS1 Canada

General Counsel

• Advise internal teams on legal matters as a neutral, not-for-profit organization, including corporate, intellectual property, competition, privacy, and not-for-profit law, as well as other legal issues as they arise.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including but not limited to: Terms and Conditions of Service, NDAs, MSAs, sows, licensing agreements, and vendor contracts, managing these end-to-end with limited supervision.
• Manage contract lifecycles including renewals, expiries, SLA compliance, and escalation of material risk issues to the VP, General Counsel.
• Develop, improve, and maintain standardized contract templates, internal policies, and legal processes to reduce recurring work and strengthen operational efficiency over time.
• Support organizational compliance across applicable provincial, federal, and global regulatory frameworks.
• Monitor applicable provincial and federal legislation and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure continued compliance.
• Provide substantive legal opinions on ad hoc matters, including clear identification of risk, assumptions, and recommended mitigations.
• Analyze, identify, and communicate legal risk on an ongoing basis to the VP, General Counsel and other internal stakeholders as required.
• Collaborate with and manage external counsel as required, with attention to efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Additional legal matters as assigned by the VP, General Counsel.

Associate Counsel

Solutions Engineer

• Work with our subscribers to understand their business and technical needs and design solutions demonstrating our innovative capabilities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert of our solutions and address to a business or technical audience while leading the implementation of the approved solutions.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture solution delivery documentation, SOP’s and process maps to provide the enterprise with a detailed view of the various solutions implemented and how they work with one another.
• Lead the gathering of business and technical requirements, discovery, and mapping with the cross functional departments.
• Capture and validate business processes across various systems along with their interfaces and their process flow analysis and process redesign.
• Translate subscriber needs and future system enhancements into workable execution plans that align with the current and future vision for the enterprise infrastructure.
• Become a subject matter expert in system and process related areas of the business, and ultimately play a lead role in the ongoing projects.
• Lead design discussions focused on scalability, design and implementation of best practices accountable to ensure business and technical requirements are met.
• Leads the development of creative new data integrations, modifications to existing software, and/or makes decisions regarding integrating software applications data in accordance with agreed upon specifications.
• Liaise with the internal stakeholders and the development team on the projects/solutions.
• Lead the development of the projects/solutions, which includes creating and maintaining documentation and plans for features, delivery management, rollout, support etc. encompassing the SDLC practices.
• Onboarding and training new team members to the team, introducing them to the products, tools or applications supported by the team;
• Monitor the health, adoption, security, cost etc. of the applications supported under the portfolio.
• Participate with the business owners in defining the SOPs for new processes including business processes, technical development, change management, operational support, etc.
• Create and maintain reporting and analytics for the IMS group.