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• Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. You use your ability to work independently, your in-depth knowledge, and significant experience in a specialty area to apply legal knowledge in the practice area and propose legal solutions and alternatives to in-house counsel.

How you will contribute

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. In this role, you provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, region and global stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed. You will operate systems and technologies relevant to the area of support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience in a legal specialty area to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company

• Working independently and coping with stressful situations and deadlines.

• Excellent problem-solving, project management, and time management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

• Technology and Systems Savvy; ability to operate and manage systems and technologies relevant to particular job

Responsibilities:

Work with Senior Director and Chief Counsel MX BU in the following priorities, ensuring clear communication and teamwork:

•Decisive, creative and pragmatic business leader; strategic advisor with strong ability to use own initiatives and help the business achieve or exceed their objectives, with a solid track record working on matters pertaining to:

•Operations: provide legal service to the operations group in matters such as environmental, energy, EHS, etc., pertaining to the MX BU manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, and CEVES located in Mexico.

•Supply chain and Procurement: Provide transactions-related legal services, including review, advice, structuring, negotiation, drafting, and tracking of contracts for sale and acquisition of goods and services for the MX BU, will provide training and day-to-day problem-solving. The position will interact with Global and LA Procurement.

•CGA: support the CGA to distill complex laws and regulations into MX BU useful, understandable principles and concise, easy-to-read and understand explanations.

•Regulatory: Identify and interpret applicable laws and regulations; provide timely, clear, and thoughtful legal advice and solutions pertaining to the laws, regulations, regulatory changes and policy changes, etc., that may have an impact on the business, manufacturing process, and our products specifically those related regulatory framework for food/consumer goods products in Mexico, providing accurate and timely information to the Chief Counsel and the business in relation to relevant legal development.

•Identify and interpret applicable laws and regulations; monitor, anticipate and analyze relevant law and policy changes to address and implement them in most advantageous way to MDLZ consistently, using best practices, e.g. consumer goods, food law and regulatory changes, etc. Develop and give relevant and meaningful training on laws and legal developments and provide training on those laws/regulations that can affect the business.

•Claims: manage claims pertaining to regulatory matters, conduct thorough factual and legal investigation, and develop claims resolution strategy accordingly. Work with Senior Director and Chief Counsel and outside counsel in preparing a response to the claim.

•Use outside counsel efficiently and as necessary. To provide feedback to the Senior Director and Chief Counsel on the level of services of outside counsel and look for opportunities to improve the services.

Job Requisitions:

Bringing successful experience in a multinational consumer goods company or law firm that has worked in a complex commercial setting, the ideal candidate should possess at least 15 years of business experience, with a successful track-record operating as an advisor/counsel in fast moving, consumer-centric and dynamic environments.

•Law degree;

•Master’s degree is a Plus;

•Admitted to practice law in Mexico;

•Impeccable professional and personal integrity background;

•Seasoned in-house lawyer or law firm advisor/counsel with at least 15 years’ experience at prestigious law firms and/or international companies;

•Generalist background with broad exposure to multiple legal disciplines core area being every aspect of commercial law;

•Experience in Marketing, Manufacturing and/or Sales law or Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience preferred but not mandatory;

•Great interpersonal skills, teamwork, approachable and team builder; breakthrough thinker;

•Ability to work under pressure with a sense of diplomacy;

•Strong strategic leadership orientation combined with a strong analytical & conceptual thinking

•Fluent in English and Spanish.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6,000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as Trident , Oreo , Philadelphia , and local jewels like Clorets and Bubbaloo . We are leaders in the making of cream cheese, powdered beverages and confections—in fact, we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities, such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB, which are the largest gums, candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy are products in 900,000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide, a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of snacking. We are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave, open spaces, remote work and flexible working hours.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

Regular

Legal Business Growth Partners and Services

Legal

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.

Join us and Make It An Opportunity!

Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.