Senior Legal Counsel, North Africa Franchise (NAF)

Job Description

Location(s):EgyptCity/Cities:Travel Required:26% - 50%Relocation Provided:NoJob Posting End Date:June 29, 2022Shift: Summary: Position Overview: The position is for a legal counsel to join the North Africa Franchise (?NAF?) of The Coca-Cola Company to provide legal support and advice across the various functions within the Business.Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

• Providing general legal and business, advice on a case by case basis to the business (all functions) including on strategies and plans to be executed, developing recommendations regarding important legal issues, analyzing legal issues affecting multiple jobs
• Drafting contracts, memoranda and other documents of a contractual nature, whether binding on the Company or not. Negotiating the terms with related parties to minimize Company?s legal risks
• Coordinating and managing litigation matters involving the Company with outside counsel and making every effort to prevent litigation
• Act as a center of expert on anti-trust matters for the region counsels and conduct trainings, design manuals to ensure compliance with competition regulations
• Acting as Local Ethics Officer supporting E&C Office and conducting internal trainings on a variety of areas to help foster a strong culture of compliance and good governance within the business
• Creative ways of approaching issues, processes and policies and offering solutions and improvements where necessary
• Collaborating with the Trademark Team and Corporate legal in order to protects Intellectual property rights of the Company, upon investigating the plans with teams
• Handling general secretary work of representation offices and protecting Company?s interest at Bottlers where it has shares in
• Work closely with legal department of Bottler/s to support them to be in compliance with Company policies and implement routines to ensure system alignment and governance

Education Requirements:

• Undergraduate Degree.
• LLB Degree and/or Equivalent Legal Qualification; and
• Admitted Attorney.

Related Work Experience:

• 6 years post qualification experience practicing law (Admitted to practice law).
• Corporate/commercial in-house experience and knowledge of intellectual property, trademark and competition laws are desirable.

Functional Skills:

• Legal Advice: Ability to develop and effectively communicate sound legal advice and/or analysis, including the suggestion of alternative business solutions and best practices whileconsideringclients role, objectives and risk tolerance.
• Client Objectives and Risks: Ability to determine and understand client objectives and risk tolerance. Includes knowledge of methods and/or techniques used to determine to identify objectives or risk tolerance and ability to incorporate the information in making legal decisions.
• Manage Outside Counsel: Ability to determine appropriate role of outside counsel, including setting parameters for involvement. Includes ability to determine appropriate staffing and controlling fees, cost, and expenses.

Skills:Business ConductOur Purpose and Growth Culture:We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what?s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors ? curious, empowered, inclusive and agile ? and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Visionto learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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