Senior Lawyer

Tangle Teezer Ltd; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 800,000 - 1,200,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An international consumer goods company is seeking a Senior Lawyer to implement the legal strategy in Mexico and Ecuador. This role involves managing compliance, overseeing corporate matters, and providing legal guidance across various business areas. The ideal candidate has a Law Degree, is fluent in both Spanish and English, and has at least 7 years of corporate legal experience. Strong negotiation and litigation skills are essential for success in this position.

Formación

• Must be a Lawyer admitted to practice in a country.
• Minimum 7 years of experience required.
• Experience in corporate, marketing law, and litigation is essential.

Responsabilidades

• Define and implement the legal strategy in MexEc Region.
• Manage compliance with licensing and governmental permits.
• Coordinate strategy of usage of outside counsels.
• Monitor and manage the MexEc litigation portfolio.

Conocimientos

Fluent Spanish

Fluent English

Corporate law expertise

Litigation experience

Negotiation skills

Compliance knowledge

Educación

Law Degree

Descripción del empleo

Description

JoinBIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways.

Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission.

The Sr Lawyer will partner with the Senior Manager in the definition and implementation of the legal strategy in MexEc Region, in order to provide efficient support to the commercial team of Mexico, Ecuador and GeM. Reinforcing the cross functional communication, improving the presence of the legal department as a Business Partner, and to create a preventive and innovative culture in line with the commercial strategy.

Principal Responsibilities

• Implement, monitor and deal locally with the corporate matters in order to have a high level of control of the Power of attorneys and Shareholder Meetings. Defining the best local strategy and aligning it with the Corporate Department of the Group Legal. Also, and providing the Group with the documents/reports/information accordingly
• Guarantee the implementation and usage of Contract Process in the Region, monitoring it and improving it is time from time. Facilitating the time of response of the request of the Procurement, and Comercial teams, assuring the signature of the contracts of the company in its best interest
• Reinforce the compliance of the license and governmental permit of the sites in MexEc Region offices
• Offer proactive and reactive guidance on a variety of business areas, including commercial, marketing, corporate, finance, and procurement
• Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authority etc.), creating relations of trust, awareness of BIC, and at BIC´s best interest
• Guarantee, monitor and contribute with the compliance of the New Labor law in Mexico
• Work with the controlling areas to create and implement local policies in accordance with the Group Compliance strategy and also local requirements
• Coordinate, manage and define the strategy of the usage of outside counsels on specific projects, matters, and litigation
• Management of the MexEc litigation portfolio to follow up locally, Group Legal and build strategy in order to decrease the costs and find opportunities
• Assist the Senior Legal Manager of the region by assuming and leading the demands of contracts and legal advice to the business areas

Requirements

• Lawyer Degree and admitted to practice in a country
• Fluent Spanish and English
• Minimum experience of 7 years
• Experience in a corporate environment: dealing with contacts, drafting, negotiating and revising, conducting matters of corporate law, marketing law and litigation
• Desirable experience in compliance and regulatory
• Desirable experience in multinational companies or CPG
• Experience with international reports and alignments · Ability to draft, implement, train and advice on compliance matters, policies and local requirements.

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.