Senior Legal Counsel L&E Corporate (EMEA)

Resource Allocation: Devise exhaustive plans detailing resource deployment. This entails scoping the need for both internal expertise and external legal partnerships, while assessing potential ROI.

Legal Surveillance: Continually monitor legal nuances, especially those impacting corporate governance, acquisitions, divestitures, and the other intricate facets of the Corporate Business Area within the region.

Strategic Counsel: Offer informed legal direction on the Legal Matters specified in the Annex. Collaborate with other Business Area leads to spot common intersections in strategy and potential legal risks. Offer strategic legal advice, particularly on matters of corporate structuring, labour and employment, and overarching corporate strategy.

L&E; Governance: Establish and maintain a consistent labour & employment governance framework across the region (in partnership with HR), including escalation pathways, playbooks/templates, decision logs for material cases, and the coordinated management of external employment counsel to ensure compliant and timely outcomes.

Contract Oversight: Supervise the genesis, negotiation, and culmination of pivotal corporate contracts, including real estate, sourcing or employment, ensuring alignment with VF’s overarching objectives while mitigating legal exposure.

Risk Management: Innovate and execute methodologies to pinpoint and neutralize potential legal pitfalls, especially within the Corporate Business Area’s vast spectrum. This includes monitoring potential challenges to VF's enterprise actions and decisions.

Legal Ops Synergy: Collaborate closely with the Legal Ops team to ideate, bring to life, and maintain requisite compliance tools and procedures tailored specifically for corporate operations.

Financial Oversight: Exercise judicious oversight over the engagement of external legal entities, ensuring their services align with the budgetary constraints specific to corporate initiatives.

Training Campaigns: Conceive and oversee the roll-out of educational vehicles targeted at VF personnel, centring on corporate-related legal themes, risk mitigation strategies, and best practices.

Reporting: Draft and deliver cogent reports to both regional and global hierarchies on strategic corporate legal subjects. Emphasize predictive enterprise risk analyses and region-specific countermeasures.

Committee Engagement: Actively partake in, and at times spearhead, various committees. These span both regional and global compliance forums as well as strategic roundtables pertinent to the Corporate Business Area.

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• Possession of a Juris Doctor or master’s degree in law.

• A minimum of 10-12 years of dedicated experience in corporate legal responsibilities in multicultural environments with solid expertise in Labor & Employment. A combination of law firm and corporate in-house experience is highly desirable.

• Profound knowledge of legal aspects related to corporate business operations, ranging from contracts, stakeholder relations, to regulatory adherence. A strong background in protecting intellectual property rights for consumer brands is essential.

• Comprehensive understanding of the corporate legal landscape, including regulatory matters, compliance, litigation, and risk management, as well as overall corporate governance.

• Can establish systems and scalable processes, including internal policies and procedures.

• Demonstrable experience in budget formulation, allocation, and fiscal management.

• Outstanding ability to convey intricate legal topics clearly and persuasively to a range of stakeholders, both within and outside the organization.

• Proven track record of thriving in an inclusive, diverse, and multicultural workspace.

• English fluency is mandatory. Proficiency in additional regional languages will be a distinct advantage.

• Exceptional legal research, analytical reasoning, and drafting prowess.