Mondelez - Legal Counsel Role - CS

The Legal Counsel, India is charged with providing high quality and responsive legal support and guidance to the relevant functions or factories as part of the Legal team; establishing collaborative relationships with colleagues for effective business partnering; manage litigation through external legal resources within budgets and highlight and manage risk in areas supported.

Principal Accountabilities :

- Listed below are a series of brief key statements which describe the principal accountabilities of this role

- Provide legal support and risk evaluation to relevant Categories, functions and factories, through

- Legal advice

- Company Secretarial work

- Contract risk management

- Ensuring appropriate protection of intellectual property

- Identification and interpretation of applicable laws and regulations

- Policy interpretation, development and training

- Litigation and support for customer claims

- Negotiate and managing external legal fees within agreed budgets

- Provide legal support for major projects in the business and the Legal Function

- Statutory compliance

- Establish a culture of compliance throughout the business through all forms of advice, communication, role modelling and training and includes:

- Overseeing corporate governance and compliance with law and policy

- Policy interpretation, development and training

- Implementing effective compliance training programs for policies owned by the Legal function

- Spearhead a regime of statutory compliance through the Statutory Compliance Tool

- Participate in and contribute to the Global Legal department's knowledge management and productivity-building initiatives as agreed with the Counsel on an annual basis

Other Competencies:

- Robust knowledge of local law and regulations

- Good business acumen

- Savvy with digital projects and concepts

- Understanding and experience of digital

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey legal advice and documentation in a commercially sound and relevant manne

- Sound judgment and business sense

- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of managers across a wide variety of business disciplines

- Strong customer focus, yet have the ability to give independent advice

- Knowledge of domestic and international FMCG/Foods industry, competitors and regulatory environment

- Ability to manage numerous matters and competing priorities and to work within a matrix set up

Candidate Experience Profile:

Education: Degree in Law (either 5 year course or post graduate 3 year course) from a recognized University and qualified Company Secretary

Experience:

- At least 10 years Post Qualification Experience as an in-house legal advisor and Company Secretary in a large corporation with multiple locations and manufacturing facilities.

- Experience in FMCG or Food companies preferred.

Key Values: While all MDM Values are important, the following would be very critical for this role

Act like owners:

- Walk-the-talk / Lead by example

- Take hard calls and decide what is right for the business

- Focus on outcome over activity

- Question the status quo / Encourage experimentation

- Always act like this is our business and treat the company's money as our own

- Be proud custodians and take our stewardship of our brands and people seriously

Keep it simple:

- Focus on the core issue

- Make our decisions and actions clear

- Break complexity into steps to success

- Don't let perfect get in the way of better

- Identify areas to reduce and manage complexity

Discuss, Decide and Deliver:

- Get to the heart of the issue

- Be fully present during discussions

- Promises made, promises kept

- Align on the issue before coming to a conclusion

- Discuss with the right people before you decide

- Make decisions and back each other

- Decide quickly and keep the business moving forward