Associate Director, Legal GB

Business: GB BU Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP)

Location: Uxbridge head office / hybrid

Reporting into: Vice President, Legal

What you’ll become part of:

We’re Coca-Cola Europacific Partners – one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies.Great people, Great service, Great beverages done sustainably for a better future together.

Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

You will be a key leader within the strong in-house CCEP legal team and business partner to the Great Britain Business. Through commercially focused partnership, you will create maximum value and competitive advantage for the business, as well as working with colleagues on strategic projects across CCEP’s territories. You will provide business-focused, pragmatic advice, counsel, and training on a variety of legal issues, you will enable strategic business initiatives, while ensuring that business and legal risks are managed appropriately.

Your key focus:

You’ll be offered a broad senior legal role requiring leadership qualities to deliver your key objectives which include providing the business with strong practical business and legal counsel and be a key contributor to delivering the company’s key strategic activities. Key responsibilities include:

• Advising on a broad range legal issues arising from day to day matters, activity and business needs, as well as on longer term strategic projects covering a variety of legal disciplines. These will include commercial law and practices, competition law, advertising and marketing rules, environmental legislation and financial as well as key areas of compliance such as Data Protection and Anti-Bribery
• You will provide solution-focused, commercial and creative legal advice to all they key departments (Sales, Category and Shopper Marketing, Field Sales, Finance etc.) in view of reaching the business strategic objectives
• Working closely and collaboratively with The Coca-Cola Company and other Franchisors
• Handling and following-up litigation; managing the work of outside counsel, as appropriate
• Serving as Legal representative on ad-hoc project teams and external associations
• Working with legal colleagues based in the other CCEP countries to align legal strategies, advices and tools.

What we’re looking for:
 

You are qualified to practice in England, with considerable and relevant experience in the field of commercial law that has included consultation with strategic business clients.  We are open on your industry background, but in-house experience of large consumer product or retail businesses would be particularly interesting. We’re looking for a good broad mix of driving strategic decisions in legal compliance, business transformation and development, procurement, corporate and commercial partnerships and agreements.

We’re looking for someone with very strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, as well as excellent influencing and negotiation skills to bring all stakeholders to common views and strategies. You will be intellectually curious, confident, and capable of engaging effectively with various levels of the organisation and dealing with complex matters; who is a pragmatic problem solver; who is pro-active and self-directed and who communicates clearly and effectively.

Personal traits:

• High degree of commercial acumen and curiosity
• Ability to manage a diverse workload across multiple jurisdictions and cultures
• Strong and proven ability to exercise creative thinking and to define new and commercially pragmatic approaches to problems
• Excellent oral and written communication, leadership and people skills, particularly in relation to senior management and the board of directors of a global company
• Ability to focus on both big picture and details, to meet tight deadlines and to collaborate with colleagues
• Self-awareness, a steady demeanour in challenging situations and comfort operating in a fast moving, often changing and unclear legal environment
• Ability to act independently and without direction

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