30 ene
Unilever
Lomas de Chapultepec
Unilever’s Business Operations
_UBO_) organization is a global 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.
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 Mexico City, co-locating with our Unilever Powerhouse in-sourced legal team, and reporting to the Unilever Business Operations General Counsel LATAM (who is Unilever Business Operations lead counsel to the Nutrition Group) based in Unilever’s Sao Paolo offices, 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.
Where this position fits-into the team - the Scopes of Work:
The advertised position, based in Mexico City, fits-into the wider legal team as follows:
- Member of the global UBO Legal team.
- Co-located with the Unilever Powerhouse legal team in Mexico City.
- Reporting to the Business Operations General Counsel, LATAM (who is also the Unilever Business Operations lead counsel to the Nutrition Business Group), based in Unilever’s Sao Paolo offices, with skip-line reporting to the GC UBO, 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:
- LATAM logistics and warehouse services projects and global / regional logistics supply contracts;
- LATAM-focused contract manufacturing and supply chain procurement contracts, and providing contractual and business counseling relating to our supply partners;
- LATAM-focused capex (e.g., new or extended factories,, equipment orders, engineering services orders), including projects in Mexico serving the North America supply chain;
- LATAM asset light (factory sale and long-term service agreement) deals;
- competition law, GHG, SUSO and sustainability initiatives, with a focus on LATAM, but potentially including support of global programs and frameworks;
- LATAM-focused logistics contracts and arrangements;
- Support for global Nutrition supply chain matters to ensure local teams are supported with internal and/or external resources as necessary.
- Renewable energy / renewable power projects (capex, PPAs etc.);
- international sales of materials and / or goods contracts;
- management of claims and pre-litigation despite resolution of contentious issues against or by our supply partners for supply chain matters within the work scopes above;
- Intercompany supply chain arrangements that support Unilever’s supply chain business model in LATAM
- Participation in piloting and/or rolling out legal technology and legal service delivery solutions with our business an
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