Algeria Legal Counsel

Job Description

Company Profile

Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, We’ve Grown into One of The World’s Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In Fact, 150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.

Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You’re Bound to See One of Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean and Fresh.

Our Corporate Strategy Aims to Double the Size of Our Business While Reducing Our Impact on The Environment By 2020. As A Result, In the Months and Years to Come, We Envisage Many Opportunities for Our Staff to Progress and Gain Vital Experience. It’s Never Been Such an Exciting Time to Join the Unilever Team

Job Scope

As Legal Counsel, you will be joining the Maghreb legal Team as the counsel responsible for providing all kinds of legal support – corporate and transactional – of all FMCG activities in Algeria. You will report to the country MD and regional General Counsel.

The position is based in Algiers with frequent travels to Oran.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Providing advice and support to the business and assisting the local management and global and regional legal counsels in all legal matters, including but not limited to regulatory matters, operational issues, HR matters, scalable and interfaced projects, litigation, investigation, transactional support, audit, digital initiatives, etc.
• Manage the legal support of all activities in Algeria and provide the necessary corporate legal advice.
• Participate in contract negotiations, formulation & implementation and set the negotiation strategy.
• Assure compliance with internal guidelines/polices and processes.
• Support all company projects execution from legal perspective.
• Provide advocacy on external permits and licenses for operational and logistics process.
• Contribute to standardization of contracts and contract improvement processes.
• Develop and offer legal training to business partners.
• Handling and advice on dawn raid process in support to the security leads.
• Collaborate closely with business integrity community Compliance Organization.
• Review, draft and negotiate contracts and other legal documents
• Develop, implement and update relevant legal policies and guidelines
• Resolve legal disputes.
• Hold , administrate and manage the corporate secretary work – ensure that shareholders’ meetings and related filings and documentation are timely done in compliance with applicable laws and assure cohesive engagement with GAFI.
• Represent the company before judicial tribunals, governmental agencies and in dispute resolution proceedings
• Act as data privacy officer and assure compliance of all the data related activities.
• Follow changes in laws and regulations and advise on their impact.
• Coordinate legal proceedings before courts, government agencies or other authorities so that the organization’s interests are protected
• Maintain and coordinate contacts with external lawyers and related advisors
• Maintain strong connections with business partners to share best practices to drive the business agenda.
• Assure compliance of our marketing claims and labelling information on packaging materials.
• Provide training on legal areas affecting the business

Role Requirements

Key Competencies & Skills – Standards of Leadership

• Bachelor/master’s degree in law.
• 7- 10 years of experience in a relevant position within a corporate environment.
• You must be a member of the Algerian Bar Association.
• Working proficiency in English and Arabic required.
• Thorough understanding of contractual issues, legal risks and liabilities
• Excellent understanding of Algerian laws and regulations.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to take initiative and work independently.
• Excellent Arabic & English language skills, both oral and written. French language is an added value.
• Strong drafting skills.
• Litigation background.
• Risk management.
• Good Interpersonal skills required with multinational working environment.

Standards Of Leadership

Purpose & Service

Personal Mastery

Agility

Business Acumen

Talent Catalyst

Consumer Love

Passion for High Performance

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.