**_Business Context_**
Unilever’s Business Operations (_UBO_) organisation is a general 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 over 4.5bn cases of products across more than 210,000 locations. Supply chain, including Unilever’s Procurement function, 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 end-to-end 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.
Market-leading fund, technology, data management and related projects connected within the tracing, reduction and tracking of GHG usage and the sustainable-sourcing 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 fast-growing areas of supply chain and direct-to-customer e-commerce, including outsourcing of some supply chain operations functions and complex logistics projects. Within the Commodity Risk Management (CRM) team within UAPL, hedges EUR 5 to 7 billion of commodity price exposures per year.
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 Barcelona and reporting to the GC Home Care Products based in Singapore, with skip-line reporting to 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 Unilever Powerhouse lawyers, contract lawyers, managed legal services providers and, where complexity necessitates, outside law firms.
This job includes the management and supervision of external and internal legal supports, and in large part the daily work concerns supervision of such work and management of matters of a complexity or internal sensitivity that will be handled directly by you.
As business teams have reshaped, a number of key business partner roles have moved to the UK/EU, leading to the need for this role to be located within this time zone.
**Where this position fits-into the team - the Scopes of Work**:
This position fits-into the wider legal team as follows:
- Member of the global UBO Legal team.
- Co-located with the Unilever Powerhouse legal team in Barcelona.
- Reporting to UBO GC for Home Care Products, based in Singapore, with skip-line reporting to the GC UBO (general) based in London and Singapore.
- Focus on supporting Unilever Business Operations functions, as legal business partner, and as appropriate, leveraging inhouse and external legal team supports, including supporting the following work areas:
- global soft oils (palm, soy) and sustainable replacement oils/detergents materials deals (Rotterdam and Singapore business partners);
- global funds and funding deals (financing and investment documents) in the SUSO and carbon spaces, typically negotiated with EU or US-based counterparties;
- global de-carbonisation, NDPE and sustainable sourcing deals and front-end consultancy, data processing and project funding deals;
- technology interface deals for global de-carbonisation, NDPE and sustainable sourcing deals;
- some SEAA regional contracting management procurement and supply chain deals, predominantly in the contract manufacturing and asset light spaces (SEAA business partners but with day-to-day partner management by outsourced or insourced legal team supports);
- some SEAA asset light (factory sale and long-term service agreement) deals, with local meetings conducted primarily by outsourced or insourced legal team supports;
- some SEAA focused logistics and warehouse services contracts;
- work on typically EU-supplier-focused deals related to innovative cleaner (lower carbon) materials deals;
- cutting edge projects relating to fast to the development and / or procurement of fragrances (usually EU-supplier focused); and
- on an occasional basis, management of claims and litigation for supply chain matters within the scopes above.
This work will involve business counseling, the scoping of wo