Director Corporate Services

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead the national Corporate Services team and align service strategies with firm business goals across provinces.
• Develop an integrated team culture and enable interoffice collaboration, resource allocation, and work sharing.
• Standardize workflows, procedures, and precedents across jurisdictions, subject to local requirements.
• Oversee selection, configuration, and operation of corporate services technology platforms.
• Partner across IT, Innovation, Knowledge & Practice Support, Finance, and Corporate leadership on technology, automation, precedents, and process improvements.
• Ensure consistent onboarding, training, and continuous development for team members across offices.
• Monitor service delivery and implement improvements to client experience and consistency.
• Manage relationships with external agents, government bodies, and service providers.
• Coordinate implementation of legislative and regulatory changes affecting corporate services.
• Prepare reports and presentations, participate in strategic projects, and foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

Qualifications

• Related university or college degree required; Law Clerk or Paralegal diploma is an asset.
• At least 12 years of corporate law or corporate services experience, including 8 years in progressive leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of corporate services processes and regulatory requirements across Canadian jurisdictions.
• Experience leading national teams, process harmonization, and change initiatives.
• Ability to translate strategy into operational execution.
• Entity management system experience, including Athennian, Minutebox, ALF, or Enact, is an asset.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, organization, analytical, and project management abilities.
• Client-focused mindset and collaborative leadership style; French-English bilingualism is an asset.

Benefits and total rewards

• Benefits include health, dental, and mental health coverage, a lifestyle spending allowance, vacation, parental leave top-up, and a group retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Other offerings include disability and life insurance, an employee and family assistance program, recognition programs, and preferred pricing perks.
• The firm describes hybrid work flexibility.

Compensation

• Target base compensation is CAD 160,000 to CAD 200,000, plus eligibility for bonus and other total rewards.
• Compensation may exceed the posted range for candidates with extensive, directly relevant experience.