Legal Director

Responsibilities

• High-level partnership with Business and functions with preventive risks, mitigate measures and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and internal policies.
• Strategic mindset to analyze risks, make pre-mortems, and propose preventive solutions.
• Coordinate all functions and activities from Legal Dept.
• Supervise and control all claims and litigation, managing the strategy, arguments and conferring closely about contents with outside counsel, as well as provide contingency reports.
• Prevent legal risk by drafting templates, trainings, policies, guidelines and standards aligned with Legal LATAM; translating laws and regulations to business requirements, templates, policies and procedures.
• Provide strategic proactive legal advice on a wide range of proposed business initiatives and projects.
• Coordinate, prepare and negotiate agreements in several areas.
• Manage outside legal counsel in Mexico and the departmental budget.
• Handle a variety of legal projects with high strategic, financial impact, risk and reputation exposure, time constraints, and multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-border matters.
• Lead and serve on project teams and committees to assess and implement special / significant projects in the local business.
• Maintain constant communication with key stakeholders (e.g., Board of Directors, Chief Counsel LATAM, and other senior managers).
• Develop people and participate in the Legal LATAM team as an active member, exchanging experiences.
• Lead analysis and group discussions to propose solutions to mitigate risks for the company.

Qualifications

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