Senior Legal Counsel

Job summary

The Senior Legal Counsel will serve as the primary internal legal advisor, providing business-oriented guidance to executive leadership and operating teams. This role involves managing legal risks, negotiating complex agreements, and overseeing external counsel to support the organization's commercial objectives.

Job details

Inland Truck and Equipment (“Inland”) is the dynamic leader in the heavy-duty truck and equipment marketplace. With roots dating back to the 1940s, Inland is now one of the largest heavy truck and equipment dealerships in North America and one of the largest privately held family businesses in BC. With a workforce of 2,000 employees and approximately 50 locations across Canada and the US, Inland offers a varied mix of sales, leasing, parts, and service offerings. The Inland team is proud to sell and service Kenworth, Link-Belt, Tigercat, and many more brands. With more than 75 years of experience, financial stability, an experienced management team, industry-leading market position, and reputation, the company is well positioned for continued growth and expansion. As a result of the continued growth and evolution of the organization, Inland has decided to create the new role of Senior Legal Counsel. Reporting to the CFO, the Senior Legal Counsel will serve as the organization’s internal legal advisor, providing practical, business-oriented legal guidance. This role is responsible for advising executive leadership and operating teams on a broad range of commercial legal matters, managing legal risk, supporting commercial objectives, and protecting the organization’s reputation through sound judgment, clear communication, and proactive issue resolution. In this individual contributor role, the Senior Legal Counsel will also function as the key point of contact for the organization’s legal needs and activities, coordinating legal matters and managing external counsel. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic commercial lawyer who brings in-house counsel experience within a multi-location, asset-intensive, automotive, transportation, dealership, retail, distribution, or commercial services environment. Ideally, they will bring specific experience in some or all of the following: cross-border experience in both Canada and the US; privately held or family-owned organization; or experience in an operating environment involving heavy equipment or capital assets. The successful candidate will be equally effective negotiating complex agreements, advising on property or transaction matters, resolving escalated complaints, managing litigation, and helping leaders make sound decisions in a dynamic, multi-location dealership environment. The ability to build strong internal relationships and partnerships, along with a genuine interest in learning the business and its operations, will be critical to success. Based in Burnaby, this is an exciting mandate for a commercially and business-oriented lawyer to take on a broad legal mandate where they will have an opportunity to work for one of BC’s largest and most reputable companies and provide much-needed expertise and counsel. To explore this opportunity further, please click Apply. We thank all applicants for their interest in this position. Please note that we will only be in contact with those individuals moving forward with our client.

What you’ll do

The Senior Legal Counsel will serve as the primary internal legal advisor, providing business-oriented guidance to executive leadership and operating teams. This role involves managing legal risks, negotiating complex agreements, and overseeing external counsel to support the organization's commercial objectives.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic commercial lawyer with significant in-house experience in asset-intensive or multi-location environments. Candidates should possess strong expertise in cross-border legal matters and the ability to build effective internal partnerships.

Listed skills

• Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Contract Negotiation · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Commercial Law
• Legal Risk Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Corporate Governance
• Litigation Management
• Strategic Planning
• Business Advisory
• Cross-border Legal Affairs
• Regulatory Compliance
• Stakeholder Management
• Property Law
• Transaction Management

Job areas

• Legal
• Management & Leadership
• Transportation
• Retail
• Manufacturing