Melaleuca: The Wellness Company · 3 hours ago
Associate General Counsel
Idaho Falls, ID
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expMelaleuca: The Wellness Company is seeking an Associate General Counsel to provide legal counsel to key leadership by identifying and analyzing legal issues in the areas of Privacy, Litigation, and Transactional law. The role involves engaging with business clients, supervising another attorney, and leading efforts to resolve complex legal issues while ensuring compliance and risk management across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Providing clear, practical, and actionable privacy advice to enable business strategies and efforts across the enterprise
Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with teams and stakeholders throughout the enterprise
Partnering with and becoming a trusted advisor to stakeholders across the enterprise, including with senior leaders within and outside of the Legal Department
Identifying and leading existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role
Ensuring risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, supervised, and controlled
Following written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities
Independently providing legal counsel to senior leadership to support business objectives and lead regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to Melaleuca
Leading sophisticated legal assignments with a high level of business impact and delivers appropriate solutions
Effectively communicating with partners and varying levels of leadership in both verbal and written forms
Producing clear and concise legal positions involving highly complex issues
Proactively and analyzes changes in laws, regulations and industry and advises appropriate organizational leadership of such changes in a timely manner
Anticipating potential or future legal and operational issues that present a risk to the organization and proactively engages with others to identify potential solutions
Providing leadership through cross-functional projects that have a material impact to Melaleuca
Effectively leading outside counsel to acquire legal advice
Coordinating with the General Counsel on periodic reporting on results, budgets, forecasts, exposure analysis and strategies to the Management Team, as well as evaluating legal strategies, expenses and reserves with the Company’s independent auditors, risk managers and business unit leaders; and
Drafting and negotiating contracts to memorialize these deals
Qualification
Required
Ability to relocate to Idaho Falls, ID and work in-person 5 days a week (relo assistance provided)
6+ years of experience as a lawyer at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department
Excellent time management, analysis, and advising skills
Ability to succinctly summarize recommendations and tailor communications by audience
Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts
Ability to provide practical, business-focused legal advice to internal stakeholders on contractual, regulatory, and general corporate legal matters
Ability to identify and assess legal risks, propose mitigation strategies, and support cross-functional teams in resolving legal issues efficiently
Preferred
Familiarity with existing and emerging technology and e-commerce preferred (but not required)
Knowledge of privacy laws and experience identifying, analyzing and advising on privacy risk preferred (but not required)
Benefits
Relo assistance provided
Company
Melaleuca: The Wellness Company
Melaleuca: The Wellness Company enhances the lives of those we touch by helping people reach their goals.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Ann Shavlan
Chief Executive Officer
Frank VanderSloot
CEO
Recent News
2025-11-12
2024-02-22
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