Commercial Legal Counsel

Village Farms International (Nasdaq: VFF) is a vertically integrated global leader in cannabis and plant-based consumer packaged goods, and sustainable innovation. As one of North America’s longest-standing produce operators built on decades of expertise, we’re a company where growers, innovators, and creators come together to shape the future of high performing plant-based brands, globally.

Joining Village Farms means joining a global team built on purpose, integrity, and ambition. Here, we grow people, ideas and possibilities.

We are looking for a Commercial Counsel to provide practical, business-focused legal support across our cannabis operations. Reporting to the COO, this role partners closely with Commercial, Operations, Finance, Regulatory, and Government Relations to support business priorities, manage legal risk, and help the organization navigate a complex and evolving regulatory environment. This is an opportunity for a commercially minded, collaborative lawyer who combines strong legal judgment with practical execution.

You are comfortable moving between strategic advice and hands-on support, understand the business behind the legal issue, and can translate complexity into clear, actionable guidance. Above all, you are a practical legal partner who brings structure to complexity, strengthens how legal work gets done, and helps the business move forward with confidence.

This is an IN-OFFICE position, can be located in either Montreal, QC or Delta, BC.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including supply, distribution, manufacturing, retail partnership, confidentiality, and service agreements.
• Lead and coordinate transactions from initiation through execution.
• Help centralize and standardize contracting, templates, terms, approvals, and contract-management practices.
• Partner with business leaders, Finance, counter parties, and external counsel to balance business objectives, risk, timing, and cost.

• Coordinate Health Canada licensing requirements across Canadian cannabis operations.
• Manage applicable provincial, federal, and international filings, registrations, and regulatory requirements.
• Track key legal and regulatory deadlines and coordinate timely submissions across the business.

• Provide clear, practical legal guidance to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Translate complex legal issues into actionable business advice.
• Support commercialization, market entry, operational execution, and other strategic initiatives.
• Identify risks early and help develop practical solutions that allow the business to move forward.

• Strengthen contract management, legal intake, regulatory tracking, and document-management practices.
• Maintain appropriate legal registers, templates, standards, and governance processes.
• Coordinate external counsel where specialized support is required.
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, visibility, efficiency, and control across legal activities.

• Partner across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Regulatory, Government Relations, and other functions.
• Support evolving legal and business priorities as needed.

Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned. Regular attendance in conformance with the standards, which may be established by Village Farms International, Inc. from time to time, is essential to…