Legal Counsel

At ABC, we brew the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world. A big part of that means brewing better people with the heart of our company in our four values:

• Passion for consumers and customers
• Care for people and planet
• Enjoyment of life
• Courage to dream and pioneer

Job Purpose

Legal Counsel role is key role in ABC with responsibility for providing legal advice to various departments. You will be responsible for in-house legal matters including drafting agreements, addressing compliance issues, and participating in negotiation discussions. In order to succeed, this candidate should feel comfortable working with in-house and outside counsels on a variety of legal matters.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Contracts:

• Negotiate, review and draft all types of agreements for the different departments such as (commercial, HR, Finance, Operational etc.). Hold required internal & external meetings with stakeholders to negotiate terms of agreements.
• Ensuring the update of the templates with any new requirements to be added or removed, according to company policies, laws and regulations.
• Maintaining and updating a shared database for all contracts to ensure smooth accessibility to templates.
• Ensure that the legal function has the originals of all agreements and legal documents
• Manage the archiving system of contracts to ensure proper physical and soft location of contracts

2. Litigation

• Follow up with the external lawyers on the court cases and maintaining a record for hearing dates.
• Follow-up on the litigation reports by the law firm and written pleadings and preparation of documents
• Ensure proper communication to the relevant department on the progress of the cases

3. Compliance and Legal Operation 

• Conduct legal research and provide legal opinions to all ABC departments.
• Provide legal advice and opinions in all legal aspects, in addition to interpreting legislation, rulings and regulations
• Ensure the company operation, daily practice and internal documents are in line with legal requirements and especially competition law and company’s policies.             
• Provide legal trainings to ABC business departments and raise legal awareness per function
• Assist the Senior Legal Counsel in strategic pillars such as (IP, License to Operate and Corporate Governance).
• Act as the compliance officer for their concerned departments
• Handle other administrative and corporate tasks including but not limited to in preparing presentation materials, drafting minutes for meetings, OGMs, etc, depending on the business.

Education & Experiences

Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Law

Years of Experience: 2-3 years of relevant experience preferably in FMCGs. Previous experience in Legal Department of an international cooperation or international cooperation or multinational Law firm.

Qualifications & Other Requirements

• Excellent command of English and Arabic Languages
• Excellent Microsoft Office knowledge especially Outlook and PowerPoint
• Excellent legal skills and knowledge of Egyptian Laws
• Keep up to date on relevant changes in laws

Personal Skills

• Critical and Challenging
• Analytical Skills
• Confident in communicating at all levels of seniority
• High Persuasion and Negotiation skills
• Pro-active & Teamwork oriented

Functional Competencies: