Chief Counsel Sub Saharan Africa

3 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Mondelēz International Full time

**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.**

As the lead for legal activities for the company across the region, business units and sub-function areas in the country and/or across multiple countries, you identify business needs and design, develop and drive the implementation of Mondelēz International ’s legal strategy through the service delivery model and governance to support commercial and corporate initiatives. You lead and advise the business on risk, anticipating and addressing internal and external factors, direct other legal colleagues in the execution of our legal approach, and decide the direction to take to address legal issues or concerns. In addition, you are also a leader and expert in a legal specialty area of responsibility or are a region or business unit lead; lead, review and revamp legal teams in a continuously changing environment; and ensure the availability of new technologies, systems and services in the strategy framework.

**How you will contribute**

You will lead in setting and implementing legal strategies that enable Mondelēz International to compete and to protect our people, assets and reputation while complying with legal requirements and standards of ethical conduct. In addition to these contributions, you will also lead the legal team in providing legal services to the company at an optimal cost considering internal and external resources, technologies and systems; provide legal guidance to ensure managers make informed decisions regarding legal operational risks; manage the legal strategy with outside counsel, including spending without compromising financial and reputational risk; address the complex legal environment by partnering with business units, regions and global stakeholders to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries identifying risks and opportunities for the company.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

- Significant legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
- Strong analytical, strategic vision, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience navigating and presenting at all levels of organization
- Significant experience assessing, advising on risk, advising/coaching and dispute resolution in a multinational company
- Highest level of integrity and trust; highly credible and willing to express
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Resourcefulness, including relevant new technologies and systems

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Proactively contributes strategic thought leadership, underpinned by technical legal competence, to discussions of the SSA LT, for the successful navigation of significant projects and issues affecting the BU (e.g. external developments, M&A projects, transformation/restructuring projects across functions including Integrated Supply Chain, major strategic contracts). Provides leadership and legal counsel on those projects and issues as a member of the core team.
- Seeks creative, timely and cost-effective solutions to complex business problems affecting the SSA Business to achieve business objectives while mitigating legal risk and using the law to gain competitive advantage
- Proactively identifies, assesses and manages legal, compliance and regulatory risks across SSA BU for all relevant internal stakeholders and matters, assuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and policies (including strict adherence to GSCP protocols).

Provides legal counsel and support to colleagues across all areas of SSA businesses, including in contracts (drafting, reviewing, negotiating, etc.), compliance, advertising and marketing, sales and distribution, competition law, employment and labour relations, real estate, licensing, government regulations, corporate governance, company secretarial and other areas having significant legal relevance to the SSA businesses.
- Advises business partners on possible actions or defences in respect of actual or potential legal conflicts and litigation matters affecting the SSA business, exercising commercial judgment in the development and evolution of a sound, cost-effective litigation strategy.
- Leads, inspires and motivates the Northern Europe Legal team, managing counsel responsible for SSA and putting people development as a priority.
- Plays an active role on the AMEA LIS LT, role modelling the MDLZ Values and Commitments and co-owning and helping to develop our AMEA LIS talent.
- Contributes to the global CLA function through participation in various global functional initiatives or Focus Areas designed to keep MDLZ CLA evolving for the future.
- Participates in one or more of CLA’s global CoE’s or other cross functional teams, as appropriate, for the effect

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