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Job Title: Legal Counsel, Supply and Procurement (Contractor)
Reports To: Lead Legal Counsel, Global Procurement
Location: UK Fully Remote
Contract Length: 6 Weeks
Context / Scope
Sitting within the Global Supply and Procurement (GS&P) legal team, provide legal support for Global Procurement (GP) projects and global functions workstreams, including:
* Legal leadership and advice to the GP team on legal issues and contracts including support for timely negotiation of multi-million pound contracts which typically impact multiple markets or jurisdictions
* Delivery of appropriate and tailored training, know-how and templates at an appropriate frequency and level to both GP and in-market legal teams. Support local in-market lawyers with functional capability development to ensure they have the capability and legal resources to deal with Procurement issues in their markets as efficiently as possible.
* Together with team, legal support on various issues relating to, for example, reputation risks, group litigation or regulatory issues related to GP as required from time.
Leadership Responsibilities
Nominated legal support for specific project teams, sole accountability for specific procurement stakeholders.
* Along with other members of the GS&P legal team, work directly with the in-market legal teams to provide support, develop functional capability and embed Diageo best practice and ways of working in the area of Procurement and other global functions & litigation related legal issues.
Purpose Of Role
* Support and lead effective delivery of GP projects and contracts.
* Resource and focus to build capability of in-market lawyers and GP colleagues to manage risk and reduce requirement for input from senior lawyers.
* Support of productivity agenda especially GP contribution to this.
Top 3-5 Accountabilities
* Provide solutions and judgement based on a wider Diageo perspective and experience
* Ensure legal and reputational risk is managed effectively by GP function
* Ensure legal and reputational risk is managed effectively on specific global issues
Qualifications And Experience Required
* Lawyer admitted to practice in England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland or equivalent Commonwealth jurisdiction, with extensive commercial in-house experience gained (minimum of 5 years’ PQE or international equivalent in a commercial legal role);
* Ideally some experience with commercial contracts, specifically procurement
Key Functional And Leadership Capabilities
* High level of professionalism and integrity, excellent analytical skills and experienced contract drafting & negotiating skills;
* Commercial pragmatic approach, with ability to express legal concepts in clear and practical manner;
* External lawyer management – understands what work is most effectively staffed internally and externally and the tools to obtain best value in using external lawyers
* Capability development – able to develop practical tools and deliver training effectively and instill the right skills within the Global Procurement and market legal teams
* Skilled in project management, verbal and written communications
* Core understanding of compliance risks, IP, antitrust, data privacy laws and knowing when and how to engage specialist SMEs
* Risk – able to foresee and assess legal, reputational, operational and strategic risks, communicate such risks and enable the company to mitigate effectively such risks
* Solution mindset – thinks creatively to provide innovative solutions.
* Business partnership – builds strong relationships; is actively/consistently consulted by stakeholders.
As a temporary contractor, you'll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manage most of our temporary contract hiring, you will not be employed by Diageo
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Legal
* Industries
Beverage Manufacturing
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