Legal Counsel

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**Meaningful Work From Day One**

We are looking to hire a motivated and experienced in-house counsel with a minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience to be part of our Europe Legal Team for an interesting and fast-paced role, supporting several markets in Europe including France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Iberia (“Cluster”).

Your responsibilities will focus primarily on our sales and operations in the Cluster. We will value your experience and legal expertise in
- commercial matters including retail/supplier relationships and distribution,
- competition law,
- corporate law, and
- data protection matters.

You will be supporting the Regional Counsel Europe, based in Germany, and can be based in one of our office locations in Paris, France or Brussels, Belgium. Partial remote working is possible.

**What you will do as a legal counsel at Brown-Forman**:

- Commercial Support. Negotiate, review, analyze and/or draft commercial contracts with customers and vendors in the Cluster. Assist with the contract administration (including renewal tracking), management and filing.
- Corporate Maintenance. Corporate maintenance of our companies throughout the Cluster in close collaboration with the finance and tax departments. Drafting and tracking various intercompany agreements and arrangements.
- Privacy. Instilling a culture of privacy internally, including engaging with and motivating diverse stakeholders at all levels. Assist with the setting-up of privacy processes within the Cluster, drive their execution, coordinate the embedding of data privacy into the relevant operations across their entities and ensure that these entities have complete and up-to-date records necessary to demonstrate consistency with the GDPR.
- Compliance. Contribute to existing strong compliance culture by providing compliance-related training with respect to, among others, competition law, anti-bribery and privacy and implementing compliance-related policies, processes, procedures and controls.
- Managing Outside Counsel. Supporting the process of engaging and managing outside counsel in the Cluster.
- General Legal Support and other responsibilities. Advise, provide guidance, and develop policies and processes on a broad range of commercial, competition, privacy, regulatory and legal compliance matters. Provide day-to-day commercial legal support, business focused advice, and counsel to the sales and procurement organization. Effectively communicate legal concepts to stakeholders in collaboration with and with support from other members of the legal team. Support the continuous improvement of standard 1

agreements, policies and processes. Legal operations development and project management. Anticipate changes to, and advise on, relevant laws impacting our activities and customers. Other legal tasks as needed.
- Travel: this role will require traveling (15-25%)

**What you will need to succeed**:

- You are a lawyer or in-house counsel (Master or equivalent, preferably acquired in France) with a minimum of 5 years relevant legal experience for this position, gained in-house and/or in leading law firms, preferably in a multinational environment. FMCG experience would be an asset.
- You are fluent in French and English (written and spoken). Additional language: Spanish would be a plus. - You are a self-starter, have a hands-on mentality and bring great interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with your colleagues and stakeholders.
- You have the ability to perform independently as well as cross-functionally and demonstrate flexibly in a collaborative, dynamic team environment; you know how to prioritize and drive multiple initiatives to conclusion independently and in a timely manner.
- You are able to perform your work with accuracy and attention to detail.
- You demonstrate a keen interest in understanding the business, its strategic and financial goals, its ways of operations and its compliance and other risks, in order to be an effective business partner and risk manager. You have an analytical mind and business minded approach to legal issues.
- You possess strong persuasion, negotiation and collaboration skills, excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills with the ability to clearly relay complex information and give pragmatic direction and guidance.

**What we would love to see from you**:

- While you bring expertise in several of the focus fields mentioned above, you love to face wide challenges a