Vice President Legal General Counsel

Bimbo Bakeries USA•Irving, TX

About The Position

This role exists to provide strategic, practical, and balanced legal leadership that protects the organization, enables business objectives, and supports sound executive decision-making. As the senior legal leader, the role shapes and delivers the legal strategy, ensures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and governance standards, anticipates legal and business risk, and partners with executive and cross-functional leaders to support sustainable growth, integrity, and long-term value creation.

Requirements

JD required from an accredited law school
Active license in State Bar of Texas
15+ years of broad legal experience, including general counsel, top-tier law firm, and/or large in-house legal department experience
Demonstrated success advising senior leaders and executives in a dynamic, matrixed environment
Managing litigation
Setting and delivering medium- to long-term objectives
Broad general counsel or senior in-house legal experience; litigation experience
Executive-level advisory capability
High integrity, judgment, and ethics
Strong business acumen
Ability to operate independently and manage external counsel
Strategic planning, governance, compliance
Stakeholder management expertise
Legal matter management, contract review, case management, policy/procedure management, presentation, and standard Microsoft Office tools

Nice To Haves

Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred

Responsibilities

Shape and deliver the organization’s legal strategy, ensuring compliance, governance, accountability, and alignment with business priorities.
Provide authoritative legal and business advice to the President, Executive Team, and senior stakeholders on complex matters and strategic initiatives.
Manage complex litigation, legal disputes, regulatory matters, and external counsel strategy, scope, fees, and performance.
Advise and collaborate across Marketing, Sales, Distribution, Finance, Real Estate, Supply Chain, R&D, Procurement, Treasury, and other business functions.
Anticipate legal, regulatory, commercial, and reputational risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
Design, manage, evolve and maintain the legal framework for a large network of franchised direct store distribution businesses.
Develop, implement, and monitor policies, procedures, compliance programs, training, and governance practices.
Lead organizational crisis committee with effective stakeholder management, critical risk assessment and active communication.
Represent the organization in relevant corporate, professional, industry, and stakeholder forums as needed.
Build organizational legal capability by partnering with leaders, sharing expertise, and guiding teams through ambiguity, change, and complex decisions.