Senior Legal Counsel Egypt
3 weeks ago
**Job Scope**:
As Senior Legal Counsel, you will be joining the NALI legal Team as the counsel responsible for providing all kinds of legal support - corporate and transactional - of all FMCG activities in Egypt & Sudan. You will report to the NALI Legal Director and General Counsel.
**Job Roles & Responsibilities**
- Providing advice and support to the business and assisting the local management, North Africa, Levant & Iraq Legal Director 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, etc.
- Manage the legal support of all activities in Egypt & Sudan 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.
- Contribute to standardization of contracts and contract improvement processes.
- Develop and offer legal training to business partners.
- 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.
- 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 and managing the legal proceedings and litigations 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.
- Advising and managing all legal matters & projects related to the Personal Care and Beauty & Wellbeing business groups in North Africa, Levant & Iraq level.
- Ensure the implementation of legal operation agenda.
**Job Role Requirements & Qualifications**:
**Educational background**
- Bachelor/master’s degree in law.
**Experience needed**
- Minimum 10 years of experience in a relevant position within a corporate environment.
**Interpersonal skills required**
- Working proficiency in English and Arabic required.
- Thorough understanding of contractual issues, legal risks and liabilities
- Excellent understanding of Egypt & Sudan laws and regulations.
- External affairs background.
- 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.
- FMCG background.
- Strong drafting skills.
- Litigation background.
- Risk management.
- M&A background
- good to have.
- Intellectual property background.
- A strong understanding of the core business
- A strong Legal knowledge and in-house experience
- Ability to think strategically & creatively
- Highly skilled in persuasive communications
- Organized, detail oriented and passionate
- A commitment to using the internal legal department to grow the company
- The ability to translate the needs of business into legal requirements
- The ability to manage outside law firm performance.
- Flexibility to travel across North Africa, Levant and Iraq.
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