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Purpose

Job Overview: As Corporate Counsel & Compliance , you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that the company adheres to applicable laws and regulations while working as a strategic partner to support business goals. You will work closely with the General Counsel to manage compliance initiatives, review, draft, and negotiate contracts, and assist on a variety of legal issues impacting the company’s operations.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a legal professional to apply their expertise in compliance and contracts within a fast-paced environment. If you are looking for a challenging role that intersects legal, business, and compliance functions, we invite you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

Compliance :

• Manage and update the company’s corporate compliance program, including leading an assessment of the company’s third-party compliance systems to ensure adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies
• Maintain and update compliance policies and procedures to mitigate legal risks and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Lead internal investigations related to compliance violations, ethics concerns, employment matters or other legal risks, proposing remedial actions, as necessary.
• Stay current with evolving laws and regulations affecting the company’s industry.
• Develop and deliver compliance-related training for employees and management, ensuring they understand relevant policies and procedures

Legal :

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts.
• Assist in developing contract templates, playbooks, and guidelines to streamline contract management processes.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel and oversee legal proceedings when necessary, including with respect to product liability, worker’s comp and third-party subpoenas.
• Oversee the company’s data privacy program, ensuring compliance with global and domestic privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable regulations.

Competencies:

• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and sound judgment in handling legal and compliance matters.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with internal teams and provide clear, practical legal guidance.
• Ability to manage multiple legal projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in a state bar.
• Minimum of 5 years of legal experience, with a focus on corporate compliance and contract negotiation.

Preferred:

• Certification in compliance (e.g., Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional) is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

The health, satisfaction and security of our team members and their families are important to us and an important part of reaching our organization’s goals. We offer a total rewards package that includes valuable and competitive compensation and benefit plans. These programs reflect our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent. The compensation for this role includes base salary and eligibility for an annual bonus based on company performance. All incentive plans are subject to change.

The pay range for this role is $200,000 – $250,000 annually.

• Compensation will match the level of knowledge, education, skills, and experience applicable to the position.

Our current benefits package, which is available to all full-time team members and their eligible dependents, includes:

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• HSA & FSA
• life insurance and disability insurance
• and other voluntary benefits

We also offer time-off benefits including:

• paid time-off
• sick-flex time
• 12 company paid holidays

Bumble Bee Seafoods is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Bumble Bee Foods, LLC Human Resources Representative.

About Bumble Bee Seafoods

The Bumble Bee Seafood Company is passionately pursuing its purpose of feeding people’s lives through the power of the ocean. We are an iconic 120-year-old year-old fishing company that consistently aims to deliver delicious, healthy and affordable food to consumers while working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. Bumble Bee is firmly anchored in a commitment to connect the world to the ocean by re-defining sourcing, producing and enjoying products from and inspired by the ocean.

Bumble Bee’s full line of seafood and specialty protein products are marketed in the U.S., Canada and over 50 markets globally under leading brands including Bumble Bee®, Brunswick®, Clover Leaf®, Snow’s® and Beach Cliff®. For more information about the company, visit TheBumbleBeeCompany.com. For product information, visit www.BumbleBee.com.