Senior Corporate Counsel – Licensing, Business Contracts

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🇨🇱 Chile – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Sun Belle LLC

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201 - 500 employees

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🌾 Agriculture

Logistics • Food & Beverage • Agriculture

Sun Belle LLC is a Frutura Company that specializes in delivering year-round premium berries sourced from trusted farms throughout the Americas. Their product range includes various types of berries such as blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, pomegranate arils, and red currants, with a focus on organic and biodynamic certifications. Sun Belle prides itself on its hands-on approach to logistics and quality control, supported by strong relationships with growers across the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. With five distribution centers across the United States, Sun Belle supplies fresh berries to retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company also features a Green Belle organic label, highlighting their commitment to quality and sustainability.

📋 Description

• Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, amendment, renewal, and termination of licensing and other commercial agreements • Advise on complex and cross-border licensing arrangements involving plant variety rights, patents, trademarks, proprietary plant material, know-how, royalties, territory, exclusivity, quality requirements, production, distribution, and enforcement rights • Translate business objectives into clear, practical, and enforceable contractual terms while identifying legal and commercial risks • Support business teams throughout the contract lifecycle from term sheets and approvals through execution, implementation, amendment, renewal, and exit • Manage contractual disputes, defaults, and performance issues • Serve as a trusted legal partner to senior leaders and business teams on commercial transactions and day-to-day business matters • Advise on contract interpretation, authority and approval requirements, competition and antitrust, data protection, compliance, and related legal issues • Participate in strategic projects, new market initiatives, acquisitions, collaborations, and business-model development • Coordinate with local counsel and manage outside counsel • Lead, supervise, and develop lawyers, contract professionals, paralegals, and administrative team members • Set priorities, allocate work, monitor workload and performance, and provide coaching and professional development • Establish service standards, workflows, escalation protocols, and report workload, priorities, risks, and performance to the Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property • Develop and improve contract templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, approval matrices, policies, and guidance materials • Promote contract management processes and systems covering intake, review, approval, signature, storage, obligation tracking, renewal, and reporting • Identify recurring contractual and operational risks and implement scalable process improvements • Support training on contracting practices, delegated authority, licensing requirements, and intellectual property protection • Maintain records and contribute to reporting on contract activity, obligations, risk areas, and departmental performance

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution • Active membership in good standing with an applicable bar or law society • At least eight years of relevant legal experience, including substantial responsibility for commercial contracting and licensing matters • For candidates with in-house experience, experience working for a global organization is required • Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience leading, supervising, or developing legal and contract professionals • Ability to manage competing priorities across a busy global portfolio • Strong drafting and negotiation skills • Experience handling complex, high-value, and cross-border agreements • Experience advising a global agricultural, life sciences, food, biotechnology, consumer-products, or intellectual-property-driven business preferred • Experience with intellectual property licensing, particularly plant variety rights, patents, trademarks, proprietary materials, or technology, highly desirable • Professional fluency in written and spoken English required • Professional proficiency in Spanish strongly preferred, including ability to review and negotiate agreements and communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from any location within Chile • Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time