Associate Counsel

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International? Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking.

You will be part of a team that is responsible for delivering our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in order to help our UK and Ireland business achieve its goals. You will use your knowledge, and experience to propose legal solutions and alternatives.

How you will contribute

You will help deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. In this role, you will support the UK and Ireland business area, together with working with regional and global stakeholders closely to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed. You will provide support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience to identify and advise in-country and/or across multiple countries.

What you need to know about this position:

• Primary responsibility and day-day contact with our Brand Teams, advising and reviewing Marketing initiatives including reviewing artwork, drafting terms for promotions, ensuring compliance with the law; codes of practice; and company policies, managing complaints from regulator, initiating and producing guidance documents and delivering training.
• Review, negotiate and draft a wide range of Commercial Agreements and advising on appropriate management of risk across a range of business areas including Procurement, R&D and Supply Chain.
• Providing legal support to our Sales Teams on customer agreements including advising on and researching Competition Law issues and delivery of Competition Law training.
• Manage or assist on dispute and/or Litigation matters.

What you will bring

• Primary responsibility and day-day contact with our Brand Teams, advising and reviewing Marketing initiatives including reviewing artwork, drafting terms for promotions, ensuring compliance with the law; codes of practice; and company policies, managing complaints from regulator, initiating and producing guidance documents and delivering training.
• Review, negotiate and draft a wide range of Commercial Agreements and advising on appropriate management of risk across a range of business areas including Procurement, R&D and Supply Chain.
• Providing legal support to our Sales Teams on customer agreements including advising on and researching Competition Law issues and delivery of Competition Law training.
• Manage or assist on dispute and/or Litigation matters.
• Expected to work independently, take a confident, flexible approach with a “can-do” attitude, a growth mindset and must be a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to turn around numerous tasks in a short period of time.
• Candidate will preferably have between NQ-2 years post qualification and have a broad Commercial Law experience, ideally in an FMCG or similar business.

Travel requirements:

The role is Uxbridge based with occasional travel requirements