Legal Advisor - Supply Chain & Operations

Legal Advisor, Supply Chain and Operations

Are you ready to make it happen at Mondelēz International? Join our mission to lead the future of snacking. Make it matter.

You are responsible for the company's legal activities in a region, business units and/or sub-function areas in the country or across multiple countries. To support commercial and corporate initiatives, you identify business needs and design and implement our legal strategy through the service delivery model. You advise the business on risk, anticipating and addressing internal and external factors and apply your legal specialty area experience to collaborate with other legal colleagues to address legal issues or concerns.

How you will contribute

You will develop and ensure the implementation of legal strategies to enable Mondelēz International to compete aggressively, and protect our people, assets and reputation while complying with legal requirements and standards of ethical conduct. You will provide guidance and support to ensure managers are making reasonable and informed decisions regarding legal risks; manage the legal strategy with outside counsel, including spending without compromising financial and reputational risk; and provide in-house and external legal expertise to address the increasingly complex legal environment by partnering with business units, regions and global stakeholders to identify and advise on applicable laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
• Strong analytical, strategic vision, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Experience assessing, advising on risk, advising/coaching and dispute resolution in a multinational company
• Highest level of integrity and trust; highly credible and willing to express
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Resourcefulness, including relevant new technologies and systems
• License to practice law in relevant jurisdiction(s)

We are aware of our role as transformation agents to generate positive change, so diversity, equity and inclusion are one of our priorities. We believe in breaking down stereotypes and barriers to ensure the representation of society within our company. And for that, we have a Diversity Committee that operates on four fronts, People with disabilities (PCD), Ethnic-Racial, Women and LGBTQIAP+, in addition to being part of MOVER– Movimento pela Equidade Racial

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

We are looking for a person to act as Legal Advisor, with a focus on Supply Chain and Operations, in a position of substitution and high impact.

It is a consultative, hands-on and relational chair, for someone who knows how to balance solid legal reading with execution, active listening and influence.

Principal responsibilities

• Act as a strategic legal partner of the Supply Chain and Operations areas, with active presence in the day to day of the business
• Conduct end-to-end operational and commercial contracts, from initial consultation to signing, ensuring fluidity and pragmatism
• Exercise active listening with internal stakeholders, understanding the context before responding legally
• Build and maintain trust relationships with peers, leadership and partner areas, avoiding frictions and rework
• Support topics related to:
• Logistics, warehousing, carriers and warehouses
• External manufacturing / co-manufacturing
• Operational incidents, accidents and interface with insurers
• Environmental Law issues, in partnership with HSE
• Act in an integrated way with:
• Purchasing, CS&L, Planning and plant leadership
• Quality, CGA and HSE
• Regional Legal LATAM and Global Law
• Manage the interface with external offices, including scope, performance and budget
• Act with autonomy and a sense of priority, ensuring that demands do not "bounce"
• Actively contribute to the improvement of processes, contractual governance and ways of working of the legal department

Requirements

• Higher education in Law - active OAB
• Advanced English (frequent use in day to day)
• Previous experience in:
• Commercial contracts
• Dynamic corporate environments
• Interface with operational and business areas
• Experience in consumer goods / FMCG companies or high operational complexity environments
• Consultative profile, hands-on and solution-oriented

• Ability to work in fast-paced environments
• Ease in building relationships and negotiating with multiple stakeholders
• Clear, objective and collaborative communication

The position is based in São Paulo, SP.

Mondelez International is attentive to the future of work and values ​​the well being of our people, seeking to provide the best experiences. Therefore, some of our administrative vacancies are eligible for the hybrid model, allowing remote work on certain days of the week.

No relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz Brasil is Mondelēz International's fourth largest operation in the world, with approximately 7,500 employees proudly producing, selling and distributing some of the most beloved brands of chewing gum, candies, powdered beverages, cream cheeses, chocolates, cookies and desserts in Brazil. We make the Brazilians' favorite products such as Bis, Lacta, Oreo, Club Social, Sonho de Valsa, Trakinas, Trident, Halls, Royal, Tang and many others. We are truly part of the lives of Brazilians: You can find our mouth-watering products in more than 700,000 points of sale and we are present in more than 92% of Brazilian homes. Our factories are located in Vitória de Santo Antão, in the state of Pernambuco, and Curitiba, in the state of Paraná. We are also home to one of the company's 11 technology centers around the world, responsible for research and development, so we can continue to create new and innovative products, offering the right snack for the right time, done in the right way.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.