Legal Counsel, Diageo
6 Month Contract
Offers performance-based bonus structure
Office located in St James Gate, Dublin
Alcoholic beverage company
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Alcoholic beverage company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers performance-based bonus structure
Office located in St James Gate, Dublin
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 1-3 years’ PQE in a law firm and/or corporate legal department
- Experience of the FMCG sector advantageous, but not essential
- Excellent legal analysis and drafting skills
- A skilled advisor, negotiator and team player who can actively work with the businesses to engineer pragmatic solutions to a wide range of challenges, while balancing the need to align with all legal, regulatory and internal policy requirements
- Ability to drive value through informed decision-making and understanding of business functions and external factors to provide insights and innovative solutions
- Comfortable challenging constructively, using influencing skills and experience to achieve results in the business’s best interests
- Championing Diageo’s values and vision and ability to build trust through behaviours, leadership style and willingness to embrace change
- Ability to balance legal risk with the commercial needs of the business
What the job involves
- The purpose of the role is to provide commercially focussed, strategic legal support to enable Diageo Ireland’s long-term success in a changing regulatory environment
- The Public Health (Alcohol) Act has resulted in a critical change in the way Diageo markets and advertises its brands, with one of the strictest regulatory environments in Europe expected over the next 3 years
- Coupled with Ireland’s long-term strategy of digital transformation, this role will provide strategic support to the business in navigating complex challenges in relation to contract, consumer, competition, data privacy and marketing laws
- Advising on marketing, sponsorship and innovation projects with key partners, including advising on tenders, talent and brand licensing agreements and guiding on negotiations with counterparties
- Supporting on our innovation strategy, including compliance with IP law, advertising law, consumer law, ASAI guidance, laws relating to influencers
- Working closely with Corporate Relations and Business Integrity teams to advise on forthcoming changes to alcohol labelling and advertising content restrictions under the Public Health (Alcohol) Act
- Supporting Diageo Ireland commercial teams with customer agreements, joint business plans, procurement agreements and a broad range of commercial projects, including marketing agency agreements, equipment agreements and software agreements
- Advising on digital and data protection issues as part of the initiatives undertaken by the Digital Transformation Team
- Guiding the Transformation Team on data protection law and digital regulations to help achieve Diageo’s Digital strategy, including digitalisation of route to market to customers and consumers
Our take
Multinational beverage company Diageo was the result of a merger between Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, a leisure and property conglomerate, in 1997. Spearheaded by then-Guiness executives Anthony Greener and Philip Yea, the merger sent stocks skyrocketing and by December of the same year, Diageo was listed on the London Stock Exchange.
As the owner of many of the global leaders in alcoholic beverages (think Ciroc, Smirnoff, and Tanqueray), Diageo has made a number of savvy acquisitions and sell-offs, expanding its portfolio beyond Europe and into the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.
Over the past decade, however, it has had to face the rise of craft and independent brewing, with companies like Brewdog becoming new competitors. Rather than acquiring these craft beer companies, Diageo has focused on branding Guinness in a way that fits the craft mould. This involved initiatives like The Brewers Project.
During the early 2020s, Diageo also weathered an alcohol sales decline and has bounced back with a renewed focus on cold brew coffee liqueurs and Guinness blends, as well as further acquisitions that have included that of actor Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2023
$8.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.2m
Company HQ
Park Royal, London, UK
Leadership
Debra Crew
(CEO)Currently a Board Member at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Previously Board Member at Mondelēz International, Newell Brands and previously a Board Member at Diageo before becoming its CEO.
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