Senior Counsel, Commercial Contracts

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Avature Full time
At Maximus, we share an authentic desire to do something meaningful to help others succeed.

We apply our deep operational expertise, technology innovation, and digitally enabled citizen engagement in new ways and help governments solve complex problems.

By supporting various Healthcare Administration, Employment and Citizen service programs worldwide in the United States, Australia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

And that is a testament to the ingenuity, commitment, and compassion everyone brings to their role at Maximus and their dedication to connecting citizens with the services they need from Government agencies.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process
REMOTE (can be located in Toronto, Ottawa or Victoria)

The Senior Legal Counsel is a member of the Canadian Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for providing timely and reliable contract and legal advice that is in line with our governance global and local governance to the Executive Leadership Team in the execution of their business and act in an in-house Counsel capacity.

Legal Counsel

  • Counsels the Company in the protection of its assets and its people.
  • Contract Management
Serves as the main facilitator for the legal terms in contract negotiations, recommendations, record keeping, monitoring, change management, and more

Provide guidance and direction to leadership by reviewing all change notices and amendments to contracts affecting the period of performance, funding, cost or changes to technical specifications and ensuring proper risk evaluation and mitigation.


  • Reviews and analyzes bid requests to determine corporate risk and propose appropriate risk mitigation.
  • Represents contracts function at meetings with leadership and staff of supported business units
Implement contract policies, procedures, and other business and contractual or compliance matters affecting the business unit.
Lead Contract Management Coordination across the organization to ensure our contractual obligations are met and documented in a database in concert with the P/L owners

Keep everything organized and documented and maintain a database of all active and past contracts so contract management is a smooth, streamlined process.

Contract Policy and compliance

  • Ensures compliance with all company policies for contract approval/execution
  • Ensures compliance with company policy on acceptable contract terms and conditions
Manage related policies for the company, ensuring compliance with legislation, regulations and company directives
Recommend policy changes and establish procedures that affect Canadian organization(s).

  • Implement effective processes, procedures and tools and ensure compliance.
Manage the contract and legal department and staff in the country with responsibility for results, including costs, methods and staffing

  • Prepares and conducts executive-level briefings.
  • Work on issues of diverse scope where analyzing a situation or data requires evaluating a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
  • Familiarity with intellectual property principles, outsourcing, consulting and IT systems contracts
Strong verbal and writing skills
Member in good standing with the Law Society of BC or Ontario
10 years as a Contract or Legal Executive
10 years' experience in corporate and commercial law and an ability to work independently
Government contracting experience (inside the government or as a service provider) mandatory

We value your work, which enables us to continuously raise the bar on how we can best serve citizens worldwide.

Group Retirement Savings Plan

  • Hybrid and remote work environments in Canada
  • Annual paid bonus based on overall company performance
  • Customer Focus - Cultivating an authentic desire to help others succeed
We are committed and proud to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion and invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, veterans and gender identities recognizing that this is paramount for the growth and success of our organization.

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