Paralegal (12-month contract)

Requisition ID: 18+37+
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Juridique exploitation des magasins
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Québec
City: Montréal-Nord

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?
Sobeys is currently looking for a paralegal to cover a 12-month maternity leave within its legal team. If you are passionate about commercial law and have experience in-house, this position is for you!

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
Support the needs of legal counsel and business people from different departments, such as: Finance, Operations and Franchise Business Development. Responsibilities would include: drafting, preparing and entering into various contracts and agreements: promises to purchase, affiliation agreements, securities agreements, loan agreements, lease agreements, various related resolutions and other legal documents intended to meet the needs of the company, conducting research and making the necessary follow-ups;
Coordinate the process of signing legal documents by authorized representatives of the company and individuals and/or entities involved in the commercial agreements;
Act as a contact person in several types of files with internal and external stakeholders to the company;
Write and maintain certain reference documents and file follow-ups;
Maintain the proper functioning of the filing system (physical and computer) for files.

What you have to offer:
You have training in legal techniques or any other relevant legal training, combined with a minimum of 2 years of experience in the commercial sector as a paralegal;
You have an excellent fluency of French and English (both oral and written). The candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with peers in other provinces to develop procedures and processes to be implemented nationally. She will also have to interact regularly with her peers in other provinces, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada.
You work easily with Microsoft software;
You know how to show initiative, autonomy and have an excellent sense of organization;
You have the ability to handle a large volume of work and deal with short and rigid schedules.
Could be an asset:
You have knowledge of search tools on sites of a legal nature, including the REQ, the RDPRM.
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.


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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.


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