Legal Counsel Business Operations Africa, Met, Nali - Durban, South Africa - Unilever

Unilever

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Durban, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Business Context_

Unilever's Business Operations
_UBO_) organisation is a global operation consisting of, among other key areas:

Within the supply chain over 250 factories and over 400 warehouses, procuring billions of euros of goods and services and delivering billions of cases of products across more than 210,000 locations. Supply chain is a critical lever to Unilever's business fundamentals, with an increasing emphasis on the effective use of third-party manufacturers to manufacture our products.
The endtoend value supply chain controls most of Unilever's inventory, manages a majority of Unilever's costs and physical assets, and sets the foundation to generate revenue through delivering product availability.
Marketleading fund, technology, data management and related projects connected within the tracing, reduction and tracking of GHG usage and the sustainablesourcing and tracing of a wide range of commodities, including palm, soy, cocoa and diary.
Unilever's supply chain is an industry leader in responsible and sustainable sourcing (_SUSO_), with the Supply Chain responsible for bringing to life Unilever's Responsible Sourcing Policy in all areas.
Within the UniOps function, Unilever purchases several EUR Bn a year of software and technology services, including cutting edge deals in the areas of digital mapping and sustainability tracing blockchain.
The Customer Operations teams, which manage the global distribution of our products, including the fastgrowing areas of supply chain and directtocustomer ecommerce, including outsourcing of some supply chain operations functions and complex logistics projects.

These areas are supported by a specialist, lean global legal team business partners, called the Unilever Business Operations
_UBO_) Legal Team located in Singapore, London, Rotterdam, New York, Sao Paolo, Durban and Barcelona.

The advertised position is within that global team, based in Africa, and reporting to the the GC UBO, based in London and Singapore.

These legal business partners are, and you will be, closely supported by a multi-tiered system of internal and external drafting and negotiation supports, including contract lawyers, legal services insourcing and outsourcing and, where complexity necessitates, outside law firms.

This is a (legal director) role, and as such comes with significant scopes of responsibility.

This job includes the management and supervision of external and internal legal supports, and in large part the daily work concerns supervision of such wok and management of matters of a complexity or internal sensitivity that cannot be fully outsourced.

Where this position fits-into the team - the Scopes of Work:
The advertised position, based in Africa, fits-into the wider legal team as follows:

Member of the global UBO Legal team.
Responsibility for Unilever Business Operations (including procurement, supply chain and customer operations/logistics) across the Africa, MET, NALI focus regions.
Reporting to the GC UBO, based in London and Singapore.
Focus on supporting, as legal business partner, the management as a senior lawyer of outsourced or insourced legal team supports conducting the following work areas:
Preferably including sanctions compliance structuring, focusing on Russia, Iran, Syria and Libyan sanctions items.
Africa, MET, NALIfocused logistics and warehouse services projects and regional logistics supply contracts;
Africa, MET, NALIfocused contract manufacturing contracts, the termination of existing contract manufacturing relationships;
Africa, MET, NALIfocused capex (e.g., new or extended factories, laboratories or offices, equipment orders, engineering services orders);
Africa, MET, NALI asset light (factory sale and longterm service agreement) deals;
Africa, MET, NALI lawcompliance focused GHG, SUSO and sustainability initiatives;
Africa, MET, NALI focused logistics contracts and arrangements;
Renewable energy / renewable power projects (capex, PPAs etc.) in Africa, MET, NALI;
International sales of materials and / or goods contracts;
On an occasional basis, management of claims and litigation for supply chain matters within the work scopes above; and
On an occasional basis, work of the types above in other areas of the world.

This work will on a work-daily basis involve primarily the scoping of work instructions, supervision of drafting and analysis performed by others, and reporting to the business contacts for the area.

For some more complex or high-risk matters, some co-drafting of advice and contracts will be necessary. Significant business partner interfacing will unlock the benefits of this role.