Manager & Deputy General Counsel

Overview

ALDI is one of the fastest-growing retailers in the nation with ambitious plans to expand its footprint to nearly 3,200 stores by 2028. We’re looking for a dynamic Manager & Deputy General Counsel to play a crucial role in advancing our Legal team and supporting our rapid growth. In this role, you will partner closely with business leaders to provide expert legal guidance on key issues including employment law, data privacy, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial disputes.

Join our Legal team to influence strategic initiatives, lead a talented team and help ensure ALDI continues to thrive with integrity and excellence.

Position Type: Full-Time

Starting Salary: $305,250

Salary Increases: Year 2 - $320,750 | Year 3 - $341,500

Work Location: Aurora, IL

This role is eligible to participate in ALDI’s Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work up to 3 days per week (i.e., work remotely up to 3 days per week; work in-office at least 2 days per week).

Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures the training, development, and performance of their team’s staff to retain a motivated, professional workforce that achieves their career objectives.
• Recruits and recommends qualified employees for their team’s staff positions.
• Establishes, communicates and evaluates job responsibilities and performance expectations to their team to ensure a mutual understanding of desired results.
• Understands the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization to create a sense of teamwork and membership among employees.
• Counsels, advises and makes recommendations on topics relating to data privacy, commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions and commercial litigation.
• Manages employment litigation and matters, including employment counseling, hiring/firing decisions, reviews and approves position statements prepared by junior-level counsel, EEOC and state agency charges, and other employment law-related topics as applicable.
• Recommends best practices in relation to legal, regulatory and compliance processes and programs, and ensures compliance with legal documentation and company policies.
• Partners and liaises with outside counsel on legal matters, litigation, regulatory complaints and manages relevant external consultants.
• Oversees the management of employment/labor law and approves junior counsel work as it relates to employment/labor law, employee relations, and employment law-related topics as applicable.
• Oversees the management of all commercial transactions for the business, including mergers and acquisitions and creates templates for the business to use.
• Provides expertise and insight on any legal questions which arise in relation to the implementation of all new projects, with a specific focus on data privacy.
• Provides expertise and insight on any employment-based and compliance-related law changes which impact the ALDI business including participation in various committee and HR-related strategy meetings.
• Consults with leadership on the development of their team's strategy.
• Advises leadership to source external vendors for applicable services when appropriate.
• Liaises with applicable areas of the business to ensure timely and efficient communication flow.
• Consults with the business to effectively design and streamline applicable processes within the organization.
• Keeps up-to-date on external best practices and relevant changes to their field/area; communicates updates to leadership.
• Oversees a wide range of employment law-related topics, including changes in employment laws which impact the business, business-wide employment counseling, company hiring/firing decisions, and preparation/review of position statements, management of EEOC and state agency charges, and employment litigation.
• Oversees Impact to ALDI law tracking system and management with staff support.
• Develops and manages the in-house employment counseling pilot program and any expansion thereof.
• Develops and manages the in-house handling of employment charges pilot program and any expansion thereof.
• Leads the review/modification of the Vice…