Senior Legal Counsel, North Africa Franchise (NAF)

Position Overview:* *
The position is for a legal counsel to join the North Africa Franchise (
"NAF") of The Coca-Cola Company to provide legal support and advice across the
various functions within the Business.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:*
* Providing general legal and business, advice on a case by case basis to the business (all functions) including on strategies and plans to be executed, developing recommendations regarding important legal issues, analyzing legal issues affecting multiple jobs
* Drafting contracts, memoranda and other documents of a contractual nature, whether binding on the Company or not. Negotiating the terms with related parties to minimize Company's legal risks
* Coordinating and managing litigation matters involving the Company with outside counsel and making every effort to prevent litigation
* Act as a center of expert on anti-trust matters for the region counsels and conduct trainings, design manuals to ensure compliance with competition regulations
* Acting as Local Ethics Officer supporting E&C Office and conducting internal trainings on a variety of areas to help foster a strong culture of compliance and good governance within the business
* Creative ways of approaching issues, processes and policies and offering solutions and improvements where necessary
* Collaborating with the Trademark Team and Corporate legal in order to protects Intellectual property rights of the Company, upon investigating the plans with teams
* Handling general secretary work of representation offices and protecting Company's interest at Bottlers where it has shares in
* Work closely with legal department of Bottler/s to support them to be in compliance with Company policies and implement routines to ensure system alignment and governance

Education Requirements:
* Undergraduate Degree.
* LLB Degree and/or Equivalent Legal Qualification; and
* Admitted Attorney.

Related Work Experience:
* ‎6 years post qualification experience practicing law (Admitted to practice law).
* Corporate/commercial in-house experience and knowledge of intellectual property, trademark and competition laws are desirable.

Functional Skills: ***
* Legal Advice: Ability to develop and effectively communicate sound legal advice and/or analysis, including the suggestion of alternative business solutions and best practices while considering client's role, objectives and risk tolerance.
* Client Objectives and Risks: Ability to determine and understand client objectives and risk tolerance. Includes knowledge of methods and/or techniques used to determine to identify objectives or risk tolerance and ability to incorporate the information in making legal decisions.
* Manage Outside Counsel: Ability to determine appropriate role of outside counsel, including setting parameters for involvement. Includes ability to determine appropriate staffing and controlling fees, cost, and expenses.

Skills

Business Conduct

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