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Job Description
St. Louis MO (Hybrid)
Full Time Executive Leadership
Shape the future of an industry leader.
UniGroup is seeking an experienced businessminded General Counsel to serve as a strategic legal advisor and enterprise risk leader. Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the senior leadership team the General Counsel will play a pivotal role in aligning legal commercial and governance strategies to fuel our cooperatives growth and protect our legacy of excellence.
If you thrive in dynamic environments are energized by solving complex problems and bring deep inhouse legal expertiseespecially in transportation logistics or diversified governance environmentsthis is a highimpact opportunity to lead during a time of transformation enabling the organization for growth.
Who We Are:
UniGroup is a cooperative committed to delivering industryleading transportation solutions through a network of premier brandsincluding United Van Lines Mayflower Transit UniGroup Logistics and UniGroup Worldwide. We unite the strength and capabilities of our collective network to move people products and possessions with care knowledge and expertise.
What Youll Do:
As General Counsel you will:
- Serve as a trusted legal and strategic advisor to the CEO executive team and Board of Directors.
- Lead UniGroups legal safety compliance and risk management teams driving alignment and performance across functions.
- Advise on a wide range of legal issuesincluding corporate governance enterprise risk regulatory matters M&A and commercial contracts.
- Develop and oversee legal strategies that enable growth while mitigating risk and ensuring compliance.
- Navigate complex governance structures and cooperative dynamics ensuring effective member relations and regulatory alignment.
- Manage relationships with outside counsel and oversee legal spend budgeting and performance metrics.
- Champion a strong enterprise safety and compliance culture.
- Support longterm succession planning and employee development within the legal compliance and safety teams.
What You Bring:
Required Experience
- JD from an accredited U.S. law school; licensed and in good standing with the Missouri Bar.
- 10 years of broad legal experience with 8 years in a leadership capacity.
- Demonstrated inhouse legal experience (highly preferred) ideally in transportation logistics private equity portfolio companies or member/cooperative models.
- Proven ability to manage legal functions budgets and external counsel relationships.
- Trusted advisor to senior leadership and board members.
- Experience leading or supporting enterprise risk safety and compliance strategies.
Leadership & Core Competencies
Youre a strategic leader who brings more than legal expertiseyou bring a strong commercial lens executive presence and the ability to guide change. You:
- Drive with a commercial mindset You understand the business speak the financial language and use legal strategies to unlock growth.
- Influence for alignment and impact You motivate and align stakeholders through emotional intelligence trust and accountability.
- Communicate effectively You listen deeply write and speak clearly and tailor your message to any audiencefrom the Board to the frontline.
- Lead through ambiguity You thrive in times of change and bring clarity structure and calm in uncertain environments.
- Balance stakeholders and build strong networks You navigate complexity by building collaborative relationships both internally and externally.
- Cultivate innovation You challenge the status quo and create legal risk and compliance solutions that enable the business to move forward.
- Champion ethical governance You uphold integrity in every aspect of leadership including safety compliance antitrust and transparency.
- Navigate with organizational savvy You understand how decisions are made and how to get things done across a matrixed or cooperative structure.
- Lead with resilience You face challenges with confidence adapt under pressure and inspire a forwardthinking mindset across the team.
What Youll Gain:
At UniGroup we know that taking care of our people is the foundation for longterm success. Our benefits are fully competitive and designed to support your health happiness and growth:
Health & Wellbeing
- Medical & Prescription Coverage
- Dental & Vision Plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 12week Primary Caregiver Leave
- 4week Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Competitive PTO
- Volunteer PTO 8 Paid Hours/Year
Insurance Benefits
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Long & ShortTerm Disability
- Voluntary Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
Other Benefits
- 401K with 3 Employer Match
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Company Paid Holidays
Why UniGroup
Were in a season of momentumpoised to grow innovate and expand. At UniGroup youll find:
A collaborative experienced leadership team and legal function
Opportunities to influence strategy and shape governance
An evolving organization with room to make significant impacts
A missiondriven cooperative that values integrity innovation and care
A supportive culture and benefits to match
Ready to lead with impact
If youre motivated by purpose complexity and the opportunity to drive real change we want to hear from you. Join UniGroup and help us navigate whats nextwith smart risk commercial focus and a legal strategy that moves us forward.
We foster diversity in part by imposing a strict policy of nondiscrimination. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color ethnicity national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age religion disability veteran or military status genetic information or other status protected by the law.
We value the unique skills and experiences that veterans and separated service members bring to our workforce. While serving our country you have gained skills such as leadership flexibility and agility which will help to make you successful here. We are dedicated to supporting military families and ensuring that we provide a welcoming environment for our countrys heroes. We hope you consider joining the UniGroup family.
UniGroup is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment UniGroup will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact.
Other details
- Job FamilyLegal
- Job FunctionExecutive
- Pay TypeSalary
Employment Type
Full-Time
