Senior Manager Legal....
Senior Manager Legal Counsel - Adidas
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Req ID : 2549645
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Act as Strategic Business Partner and Advisor to the organisation in all relevant legal issues. Manage to ensure the best advice solutions and challenges to enable strategic initiatives and protect and enhance our assets reputation and interests. Act as Local Compliance Officer for Egypt. At all times ensuring a consistent and high standard of all Global Legal standards and principles.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Partnering
- Take a proactive role as member of the EMC and EM Legal team in the design and implementation of the Legal strategic plan.
- Maintain a high level of interaction with the stakeholders in adidas Egypt and contribute to the decisionmaking process of structuring and developing the local organization. Actively help develop business strategy & initiatives with effective legal and compliance advice measures solutions and challenges.
- Provide relevant support for the EMC stakeholders in Riyadh Casablanca Amman Dubai and in general in EMC where needed;
- Ensure and promote crossfunctional collaboration and support the One Global Legal team philosophy.
Leadership
- Manage and drive the provision of legal services and compliance requirements in accordance with global and local strategies.
- Set objectives and manage workloads and results to achieve goals while adopting best practices and achieving continuous process improvement.
- Ensure high team engagement at every level through effective motivation coaching training and development of personnel.
Legal Role
- Support the management negotiation and resolution of key complex and high value legal and business issues for client groups.
- Support and manage selected legal projects and coordinate their rollout in Egypt.
- Manage corporate recordkeeping needs for Egypt.
- Provide expert guidance and advice on key complex and high value contract law matters including drafting reviewing and negotiating a variety of contracts to protect interests of company particularly franchise distribution joint venture agreements leases supplier and sports marketing agreements.
- Help negotiate and resolve legal and business disputes for the business in the market.
- Manage and supervise litigation involving the company.
- Oversee the continual development of proactive and reactive training and learning materials that are applicable and relevant to stakeholders.
- Drive initiatives and efficient legal and compliance processes in close alignment with the wider Global Legal function
- Drive innovative and valueadding business processes policies and solutions.
- In conjunction with the Trade Marks team take a proactive role in combating counterfeits including lobbying efforts.
Compliance
Perform all activities of a dedicated Local Compliance Officer (with a minimum capacity commitment of 20%) in particular:
Prevent Drive culture of compliance and integrity risk assessments compliance communications policy implementation trainings etc.
Detect Administer compliance controls and other detection processes
Respond Manage compliance incidents investigations consequences etc.
Collaborate closely with Regional Compliance Managers and Group Compliance Management to ensure the effective implementation and continuous improvement of the compliance management system. Acting as the recognized Compliance Officer drive an ethics and compliance culture and ensure all related matters are appropriately handled including all aspects of communication education and the implementation of the Compliance program.
People
- Create an environment which promotes and sets the foundation for excellence in execution. Create opportunities to act as a coach/mentor for legal and nonlegal stakeholders.
Key Relationships:
Internal
- Director Legal Counsel EMC
- General Counsel Global Functions Emerging Markets & Global Legal Solutions
- Legal Directors & Legal Counsels Emerging Markets
- Regional Compliance Manager EM
- Cluster Management Team and other senior members of Cluster
- Global Legal functions including IP Compliance Management Corporate etc.
External
- Establish maintain and develop key relationships with external legal advisors to ensure timely and cost effective legal advice and services are delivered as required. Define procedural and budget requirements in respect of use of external legal support.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Proven commercial and strategic thinker with confidence and speed in execution.
- Ability to develop and implement strategy.
- Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure.
- Must have the ability to interact at the highest levels of the Cluster Emerging Markets and the Global Legal function.
- An acute sense and experience of legal business management and administration with an ability to make practical evaluations of risk.
- Expert in contract law drafting negotiation and business counselling.
- Ability to work both independently and to manage and prioritise substantial and diverse workloads.
- Ability to effectively communicate complex issues in a comprehensible manner.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
- Must be fluent in English and Arabic.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- Law degree with local legal professional admission in good standing.
- 5 years of law firm or corporate counsel experience in general corporate transactional and commercial law.
Experience within a multinational company with multimarket teams particularly in Emerging Markets.
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETES MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive take responsibility and followthrough.
INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our companys standards.
RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy be inclusive and show dignity to all.
ADIDAS CELEBRATES DIVERSITY SUPPORTS INCLUSIVENESS AND ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION IN OUR WORKPLACE. WE DO NOT TOLERATE THE HARASSMENT OR DISCRIMINATION TOWARD ANY OF OUR APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES. WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
JOB TITLE:
Senior Manager Legal Counsel
BRAND:
adidas
LOCATION:
Cairo
TEAM:
Legal / SEA
STATE:
C
COUNTRY/REGION:
EG
CONTRACT TYPE:
Full time
NUMBER:
505633
DATE:
Feb 19 2024
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