Legal Counsel Business Operations Legal Team

Business Context_

Unilever’s Business Operations
_UBO_) organisation 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 Barcelona, co-locating with our Unilever Powerhouse legal team members, and reporting to the GC for Products for Ice Cream based in Rotterdam, 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 Barcelona, fits-into the wider legal team as follows:

- Member of the global UBO Legal team.
- Co-located with the Unilever Powerhouse junior in-sourced legal team in Barcelona.
- Reporting to the GC for Products Ice Cream based in Rotterdam, 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:

- EU-focused contract manufacturing contracts, the termination of existing contract manufacturing relationships, and providing contractual and business counseling relating to our supply partners ;
- EU-focused capex (e.g., new or extended factories, equipment orders, engineering services orders);
- EU asset light (factory sale and long-term service agreement) deals;
- EU-competition law, GHG, SUSO and sustainability initiatives, with a focus on EU, but potentially including support of global programs and frameworks;
- EU-focused logistics contracts and arrangements;
- EU warehouse services arrangements;
- 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; and
- on an occasional basis, work of the types above in other areas of the world.

This work will involve business counseling, the scoping of work instructions, supervision of drafting and analysis performed by others, and reporting to the business contacts for the area and for more complex, bespoke or high-risk matters, provision of advice and management of contract negotiations, reviews and drafting. Significant business partner interfacing will unlock the benefits of this role.
- Some attendance in the Unilever Barcelona office will be required, within out flexible working policies and guidelines. You will be a tax resident of Spain.

What you will do from day-to-day:

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