Senior Lawyer: Food, Feed & Products Law (Open to Remote)

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

Senior Lawyer: Food, Feed & Products Law. As a recognized company authority in food, feed, and products law, you will handle and provide legal services for assigned businesses and functions and perform special legal assignments of major importance in a highly complex legal field. In this role, you will partner collaboratively with business leaders to provide advice and services on issues concerning the rights, obligations and privileges of the organization.

Key Accountabilities

Maintain expertise and serve as an expert as to relevant proposed and existing laws, statutes and regulations

Proactively identify, evaluate and address complex and strategic issues of legal, commercial and organizational risk

Provide proactive food, feed, cosmetics and pharmaceutical law counsel, advice and solutions to U.S. and global businesses

Provide counseling relating to new product development, including GRAS applications, food contact substances, and substantiation and communication of health, nutrition, and other regulated food and feed-related claims

Advise businesses on product retrieval events (recalls, withdrawals, etc.)

Engage with federal regulatory authorities, as appropriate

Independently structure, draft, negotiate and approve legal agreements, written communications, policies and other documents related to a variety of complex regulatory and operational matters

Resolve business and organizational issues by identifying practical legal solutions and executing a course of action

Handle legal issues that have a significant impact on organization operations, strategies or profitability

Develop a legal services strategy to achieve the business, functional and organizational goals

Provide expert consultative guidance for initiating strategic long-range goals and objectives. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Juris doctor and a license to practice law in current jurisdiction with an ability and willingness to be licensed in Minnesota, if necessary

Experience interpreting, applying and advising on FDA and state laws and regulations for human food and animal feed

Exceptional communication, advocacy, influence, writing and drafting skills

Ability to drive teams to achieve commercial outcomes using a creative, resilient and agile approach

Ability to serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, to proactively resolve conflict and to face into tough organizational issues

Experience leading teams, legal and otherwise, to achieve objectives and positive outcomes

Strong teaching, coaching and partnering skills and the ability to share and explain complex concepts to varied audiences

Minimum of eight years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Confirmed community service leadership, including pro bono work

Cargill highly encourages vaccinations but does not mandate at this time. Upon hire, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status, and if unvaccinated or if you choose not to disclose, you would be expected to follow Cargill’s safety protocols for unvaccinated employees (i.e., mask mandates, and social distancing).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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