Overview:
Are you interested in a career in the Legal area in PepsiCo?
Then now is the time to explore the opportunities of PepsiCo: join us as the next Legal Associate Manager.
**Your mission**:
In this role you will provide pragmatic, business-oriented and cost-effective legal support to PepsiCo South West Europe business unit (Spain, Portugal and Italy) for a wide range of commercial matters and projects, including but not limited to supporting sales teams, procurement, operations (manufacturing and logistics), real estate, sustainability projects, etc., always aiming to ensure protection of PepsiCo’s rights and interests, understanding and driving the business objectives while minimizing the risks of the company without slowing the pace of the business.
**Responsibilities**:
**Your day to day with us**:
- Legal support to foods and beverages SWE business in different areas: sales, procurement, manufacturing, logistics etc.
- Support to franchise and co manufacturing arrangements together with manager.
- Commercial and competition related aspects are key, as well as pre-litigation and litigation coordination.
- Ancillary matters such as contractual and financial guarantees, legal coordination of partners’ bankruptcy situations, etc.
- Legal support to sustainability related agenda and projects in SWE.
- Other commercial, corporate and litigation related matters (administrative files or judicial cases)
- Legal Training: Responsible for developing and delivering legal training on relevant topics to internal clients where advisable or required.
- Franchise and co-manufacturing agreements and partnerships
Qualifications:
**What will you need to succeed?**
- Qualified lawyer in Spain. Ideally, with post-graduate or Master.
- Minimum 6-7 years experience in multinational law firm and/or FMCG company.
- Overall broad and high-quality legal knowledge, specifically: Commercial law
- It includes contract drafting, review, negotiation, close legal support to internal clients for contractual drafting, negotiation, legal risk assessment, support to internal clients regarding all kind of related legal consultations, prevention of litigious matters, management of pre-litigation situations and litigation coordination. Knowledge on Competition law aspects related to the above mentioned areas.
- Knowledge on sustainability legislation and/or experience with sustainability projects’ legal aspects.
- Excellent analytical and drafting skills, with attention to detail.
- Excellent multilingual communication skills (both oral and written). Fluency in Spanish and English is required. Good knowledge of Italian is highly valued.
- Don’t worry if your experience isn’t a perfect match - if you’re excited about the role, we’d love to hear from you!_