ALDI's Commercial Transactions team is looking for a sharp, business-minded attorney who thrives on building strong legal and business relationships. This role is for someone who enjoys tackling complex problems, negotiating diverse agreements, and serving as a legal guide, helping the business navigate risks and challenges to reach its goals. It is fast-paced, high-impact, and anything but routine. For those with a passion for transactional law and a talent for turning legal strategy into business success, this is an opportunity to do meaningful work in a team that values strategy, efficiency, and results. With challenging legal work and a front-row seat to key business decisions, this role offers the best of both worlds-all while being part of a collaborative, high-energy team that knows the best solutions come from working together.
Position Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: $155,250
Salary Increases: Year 2 - $165,500| Year 3 - $176,000
Work Location: Aurora, IL
This role is eligible to participate in ALDI's Legal Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work for all but 2 days a per month.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Communicates effectively and informs direct leader of issues, status, and results of assigned tasks.
• Identifies legal issues and recommends responsive action, with an emphasis on risk mitigation.
• Engages with leadership, various business units, and external parties involved in the legal process.
• Partners and liaises with outside counsel on legal matters and manages relevant external consultants.
• Evaluates and analyzes legal issues in multiple jurisdictions and nationwide and reports findings, as well as recommendations, to direct leader.
• Recommends process improvements for area of responsibility.
• Provides strategic counsel to assigned business units on a wide range of legal issues.
• Works strategically to provide expert legal advice to key business functions in multiple jurisdictions to drive strategy and operational goals.
• Researches, monitors, and assesses emergent legal trends, new legal issues and laws, legislation, regulations, and court decisions; identifies and communicates impactful updates to relevant business units.
• Identifies and analyzes unique legal issues impacting the organization by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions and codes.
• Drafts legal memorandums, case assessments, attorney correspondence, reports, and other work product to identify exposures and risks then reports findings to direct leader.
• Serves as a liaison for various areas of the business, including creating reviewing and negotiating related agreements.
• Performs pre-litigation work to minimize risks and potential legal liability.
• Identifies proactive, cost-effective solutions that will eliminate and/or mitigate legal and business risks.
• Ensures effective implementation and communication of Legal programs, providing visibility of key milestones and progress.
• Assists in developing, implementing and driving process improvements solutions to enhance the department's ability to assist the Company and function efficiently.
• Ensures compliance with legal documentation and Company policies.
• Prepares and analyzes data to identify exposures and risks.
• Provides proactive analysis of current projects and analytical review of reported results.
• Performs special projects as requested.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements.
• Collaborates with team members and communicates relevant information to leadership.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.
Job-specific Competencies:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Consistently demonstrates the Mindsets, ALDI Acts Competencies and Professional Skills (M.A.P.) as outlined for the role.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and customer service skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide variety of individuals and respond to inquiries in a timely, professional manner.
• Effective time management; maximizes productivity.
• Prepares written materials to meet purpose and audience.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties.
• Demonstrated skills in the areas of time management, interpersonal skills, relationship building, collaboration, presentation, and problem solving.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of relevant United States contract law, commercial transactions, marketing/advertising, merges and acquisitions and/or dispute resolution.
• Knowledge of how legal issues affect organizations and the ability to develop strategies to coordinate legal considerations to business objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and ability to communicate information accurately and proficiently to non-lawyers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to analyze and present complex data.
• Ability to anticipate legal risks as well as utilize excellent judgment and analytical skills.
• Ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures.
• Ability to stay organized, multi-task, and prioritize in a professional and efficient manner while working under strict deadlines.
• Knowledge of retail industry standards and practices.
• Contract review, editing and negotiation skill.
• Ability to plan and organize workflow and embrace new challenges.
• Ability to apply creative solutions.
• Leverages legal expertise and business acumen to support the company in achieving its objectives.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree required.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in a legal environment handling commercial transactions required, preferably in a combination of law firm and corporate or in-house experience.
• J.D. from an ABA accredited law school required.
• Licensed to practice in Illinois (or immediate ability to become licensed) required.
• Overall broad knowledge of contract law, commercial transactions, marketing/advertising, mergers and acquisitions, and dispute resolution.
Physical Requirements:
• Work may be performed in an office, remote office or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties.
• Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another.
• Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.
Travel:
• Domestic travel required.
• Up to 10%.
