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Your Mission:

To ensure a comprehensive and effective legal service, with the appropriate balance of quality, speed, and cost; to protect the resources and interests of the company and to support the businesses in achieving their goals (strategic and general).

Who will you report to: Head of Legal

Localização: Vialonga

Your Responsabilities:

• Issues advice at request or at own initiative for local and international stakeholders, regarding legal and related commercial issues, from a legal and business perspective and based on an analysis of the situation and its context, including drafting appropriate documentation.
• Prepares (proposals for) commercial contracts, supports, and or participates and/or leads negotiations, including defining the negotiation strategy and ensures drafting of (legal) documents (e.g. in the context of procurement negotiations), including the Data Protection Agreements, according to the instructions from time to time received from the Head of Legal.
• Negotiation of all Data Protection Agreements of the OpCo as well as managing the Register of Processing Activities (ROPA) and performing the Privacy Assessments along with the business owners.
• Preventing and/or solving disputes, assesses the company’s legal position, ensures proposals for settlements and ensures litigation if necessary, in accordance with internal guidelines.
• Legal representation in Courts for commercial litigation (firstly, together with external law firms and finally, all alone).
• Performs legal audits regarding an assigned part of the Heineken organization, based on internal guidelines and thresholds of responsibility established; acts upon / advises on signaled deficiencies or potential improvements, and supports its development, or monitors the legal awareness of local management: Legal Risk Management (Audits take place with the input and guidance of the Head of Legal).
• Ensure that company complies with the law & regulations, in its day-to-day business life.
• Represents the OpCo in national and international contacts with external parties (e.g. suppliers, customers, joint venture partners, governmental institutes, suppliers, customers, and joint venture parties), consults and works in close collaboration with external lawyers, if necessary, within the internal procedures and guidelines.
• Supports the development and implementation as well as maintain legal and related policies for the assigned area of expertise, within the overall legal strategy, to be approved by the Head of Legal, and guarantees that the company complies with legal polices (e.g. by executing audits).
• From the assigned discipline initiates, steers and/or participates in multi-functional projects within the defined project framework
• Participate in projects with impact on parts of the OpCo or OpCowise, depending on the design made by the Head of Legal.
• Ensures proper administration, archiving and registration of legal documents (including, at OpCo level, contracting via Ironaclad, the archive of contracts that are not in Ironclad, in the Legal Contract Database, the management of the Legal Channel, the archive and register at the Legal Entities Management system, Know your customer processes and the supervision of all trademarks, models and patents registries in the global database).
• Detects and follows trends in legislations (e.g. national, international, European) and translate these trends into possible and/or necessary changes in company’s procedures and/or systems

We want you to bring:

• Degree and / Or Master’s in Legal;
• Mandatory 4 year experience as an attorney-at-law or legal counsel (at least 1-2 enrolled in the BAR association with a first rank law firm)
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Stakeholder management;
• Proactive in identifying and solving problems;
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Discipline, impact, influence, energy, ambition and proactivity. 
• Portuguese (fluent);
• English (minimum B2).
• Resilience;

At Grupo SCC, we believe that success is only possible when we deliver results, play to win and celebrate victories, when we take courageous steps with our consumers in mind, when we promote a culture of belonging, learning, sharing and reapplying, and when we have authentic conversations and invest in learning and development. These are the characteristics we look for in our people every day and they are also what we are looking for in the future. Our purpose is to inspire a better world by creating moments of true togetherness. And promoting and celebrating diversity is at the heart of this purpose. We believe that people as diverse as our beers - including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, social origin, disability (Law 4/2019) and way of thinking - enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider all applications because we advocate a culture of inclusion that provides fair and equal opportunities for all people.

Na HEINEKEN, produzimos excelentes cervejas e construímos grandes marcas. Estamos comprometidos em surpreender os nossos consumidores e colaboradores em todos os momentos. Temos orgulho da nossa história e tradição na produção de cerveja. A HEINEKEN opera em mais de 70 mercados a nível global, sendo a cervejeira mais internacional do mundo.