CDD 6 mois - Global Marketing Legal Counsel

This role is a member of the brand marketing legal support team. This legal support covers Pernod Ricard’s brand company marketing and innovation functions, which are a mix of centralised and globally co-ordinated activities relating to new product development, global campaigns and marketing assets development (including digital assets), talent engagement, product and design collaborations, sponsorships and events and external agencies engagement.  Reporting to the Global Marketing Senior Legal Manager you will work in partnership with other lawyers, marketing and innovation professionals and other key stakeholders throughout the Pernod Ricard group. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Day-to-day, you, in close collaboration with all the Brand Owner Legal Directors and the local marketing teams, will be involved in:

• Marketing related contracts: providing legal support on all brand marketing related contracts including: sponsorships, events, talent acquisition, collaborations, brand licensing, agency engagement for the brand owner, HQ and innovation teams. This includes legal support for disputes and responding to queries from these teams;
• Brand and product claims: advising on the legal requirements with respect to brand and product claims on packaging and/or in marketing materials, including the use of GI’s (and any associated production requirements), sustainability claims, product classification and brand history claims. (note that advice with respect to mandatory packaging information and quality/compliance is the responsibility of the operations teams);
• Marketing projects: providing legal support in relation to brand marketing and innovation projects,
• External legal service provider management: managing external legal service providers to ensure a high quality and cost-effective services as needed.

In co-ordination with other members of our global legal team, you and the legal support hub will also be responsible for:

• Special projects: Helping manage and deliver our ‘special projects’ (such as development of content for our online facilities & digital self-service legal tools);

• Consulting: Consulting with key stakeholders, in particular the brand company legal directors, on matters of legal risk acceptance and strategy – and otherwise keeping them informed of all relevant activities;

• Communication & training: Communicating with the wider business (including Pernod Ricard HQ, brand owner companies, external advisers and other departments) and providing training, where required;

• Records & reports: Keeping accurate and up-to-date records of all contracts, cases and projects and preparing regular reports on legal matters for key stakeholders; and

• Continuous improvement: Maintaining legal templates and other tools and otherwise supporting a continuous improvement strategy.

SKILLS YOU WILL NEED:

You will need to be a qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate in your jurisdiction

We will also be looking for you to demonstrate:

• ability to establish strong relationships and to collaborate with key internal stakeholders and suppliers;
• excellent commercial awareness;
• willingness to embrace new ways of working, continuous improvement and digital transformation;
• strong organisational skills and capability to prioritise in the face of competing demands from multiple teams at multiple affiliates;
• excellent written and oral communication skills; and
• an aptitude for agile learning (extending beyond law to include technical, operational, commercial and fiscal matters).

OTHER:

You will be subject to the policies applying to staff at your primary location, including flexible working policies. Occasional travel domestically and abroad may be required.