of counsel Luton, East of England, England
Job description
Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!
Position overview:
Legal Counsel will be providing high quality commercial and general legal advice to the Ball Beverage Packaging business in EMEA across a broad range of subjects. This is a legal role providing strategic and proactive advice supporting the delivery of the key business objectives and working with all major customers and suppliers of the business in multiple jurisdictions, as well as supporting Ball Corporation’s global compliance program. The role also requires identification and mitigation of business and legal risk and a considerable requirement to think and advise creatively and independently. The position involves close working with other in-house lawyers within the region (and globally) and with the existing network of external counsel.
Key responsibilities include:
Drafting and negotiating complex high value/risk customer agreements with Global Key Account and regional customers – working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures- Ensuring contracts deliver our strategic commercial and risk mitigation objectives. Participating in contract improvement activities
- Drafting and negotiating high value international procurement contracts with the key global and regional suppliers of the business to ensure the best possible contractual outcome for Ball
- Advising the business on aspects of EU and National Competition Law in particular with regard to our customer agreements and industry work
- Managing litigation affecting the business
- Supporting the business with intellectual property law advice
- Providing advice to Treasury, Finance, Tax, HR and IT teams located in the region, as required
- Ensuring the region’s compliance with Global and EU Data Protection requirements (GDPR)
- Developing relationships with the network of EMEA plants and functional teams and ensuring legal support is provided to them (personally or through the network of local lawyers)
- Driving the Ball Corporation compliance activities and providing internal training from time to time in accordance with our annual compliance plans
- Advising our Sustainability team on strategic lobbying activities and legislative compliance activities
- Acting as ambassadors for the Ball Diversity and Inclusion objectives.
- Project management/legal representation on steering committees, as required
Experience and skills required:
UK qualified solicitor/barrister (or overseas equivalent)- 4-7 years post qualification experience (preferably at least 2 years in-house experience)
- Experience reviewing and managing high value/risk commercial agreements with an international element
- Familiarity with working across multiple jurisdictions
- Commercial law experience essential (Competition law experience desirable)
- Demonstrable experience of providing relevant legal advice in a business setting delivering key strategic objectives
- Financial understanding of impacts of legal decisions
- Strategic agility, negotiating and influencing skills
Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.
