Legal Counsel - Winnipeg, Canada - Manitoba Public Insurance

Manitoba Public Insurance

Verified Company

Winnipeg, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Overview:
We empower employees with the flexibility to choose where they do their best work.

This role provides the option of working at an MPI work location or a blend of remote and in-office work.

MPI's Legal Services Department has an exciting opportunity for Legal Counsel practicing corporate commercial law due to an increased volume of challenging corporate commercial work arising from MPI's transformation to online services.

Corporate Commercial Counsel
As Corporate Commercial Counsel you focus on providing advice for corporate, commercial, procurement, property, financial and privacy law issues with an emphasis on software and information technology related matters

This involves:

Working directly with internal business units to provide timely legal advice, on corporate commercial, procurement, privacy, and access issues.
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts, including software and information technology agreements and licenses, consulting and other service agreements, sponsorship agreements, commercial leases, information sharing agreements and memoranda of understanding with various government agencies and other stakeholders in addition to providing procurement law advice drafting a wide variety of procurement related documentation.

Responsibilities:

Lead, coordinate, provide legal research, drafting and negotiation expertise, advice, and opinions on a wide variety of issues.
Assist the Legal leadership team with issues of increased complexity and risk that impact the corporation across all its lines of business.
Attend relevant conferences, courses, meetings, and seminars, and report back to colleagues.

Qualifications:

A Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor degree from a recognized Canadian (or equivalent) law school.
Call to the Manitoba Bar, or eligibility to be Called to the Manitoba Bar.

years of experience in corporate commercial law.

Experience in procurement law, privacy and access law, or with information technology and software agreements is considered an asset.
Demonstrated legal research skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and an eye for detail.
Fluency in French (would be an asset, but is not required).

Employee Benefits:

Health benefits
We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

flexible health, dental and vision plans

- health spending account
- travel health coverage
- other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security
In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

registered pension plan

- group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
- critical illness insurance
- sick leave to cover short-term disability
- long-term disability

Wellness
We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture

This includes:
- vacation entitlement
- flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
- maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
- bereavement and family responsibility leaves
- employee and family assistance program
- mental-health programming
- lunch-and-learn offerings
- discounted gym memberships and wellness account

Diversity and inclusion
Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us.

We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition
It's important to recognize our employees for their contributions.

Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development
We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.