General Counsel

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L’ORÉAL

WORLD LEADER IN BEAUTY PRODUCTS

Join us. Present in 130 different countries with prestigious leading brands, every year L'Oréal launches 500 new products throughout the world. Following the expansion of our activities L’Oreal Balkan is looking for:

General Counsel

based in Belgrade

The Country General Counsel will be reporting hierarchically to the Country Manager and functionally to the European General Counsel.

• As an in-house counsel his /her responsibility covers counselling in all legal matters (general business matters, contract, competition and distribution law, advertising and regulatory laws notably in the context of product communication) for Serbia + Croatia + Slovenia + supervising export to other Balkan countries and liaison with outside legal counsels.
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• Draft and negotiate all types of legal documents: internal and external to the Group, commercial, property, industrial, information systems contracts, etc.

• Provide legal watch and optimize legal security/compliance: reporting legal documents and litigations, compulsory standards, develop new processes to secure operations

• Liaison with outside legal counsels

The ideal profile:

• studied law and graduated with distinction. An international master degree would be an asset
• 6-8 years of professional experience ideally gained in the legal department of a renowned international company
• have specialized in business law and have practical knowledge of European competition and distribution law
• ability to work in a network organisation, have the capacity to understand a business context, have the ability to translate legal requirements in to practical business language and advice, have a strong work reactivity on daily basis, have the ability to understand, develop and implement a long term strategy
• business level English and at least a notion of French
• mother tongue : Serbian / fluent in Croatian and Slovenian

We offer:

• challenge to join the team of the world leader in beauty products
• inspiring product portfolio
• attractive package and dynamic work
• integration period in Paris at the corporate legal department.

EAGER TO GO FOR THE CHALLENGE?

Please apply online: General Counsel (by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” button and then follow the instructions), by 03.06.2012.. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidentiality.

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