Senior Legal Counsel

Job Summary

To maintain the company’s legal and ethical integrity by ensuring our business operations and procedures comply with legal regulations and internal policies.

Job Details

• Develop, oversee and evaluate the efficacy of control systems to prevent or resolve violations of legal guidelines and internal policies. 
• Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems and recommend effective improvements.
• Perform regular audits on company procedures and processes, revising them when necessary 
• Assess the business’s future ventures to identify likely compliance risks
• Coordinate with different department managers to review all departmental compliance policies
• Collaborate with corporate counsels and HR departments to monitor enforcement of standards and regulations
• Keep abreast of regulatory developments, evolving best practices in compliance control
• Prepare reports for senior management and external regulatory bodies as appropriate.
• Resolving all disputes at Pre-litigation/Arbitration/Mediation stage(s) (arising at plant-level)
• Addressing Consumer Complaints
• Keeping the Company’s Trade Mark records, and ensuring Intellectual Property protection
• Ensuring regulatory compliance i.e: Factory Compliance, Engineering, Project Compliance & Product Compliance
• Providing advice at plant level in the following areas:
• Regulatory & Ethical Compliance
• Intellectual Property
• Property management (tenancies, leaseholds, freeholds) of SBC’s and related parties’ holding & real estate transactions
• Drafting and reviewing Plant-level contracts

Requirements

• Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
• At least 10-years’ post-call experience 

Industry Skills (product development and regulation, product liability, advocacy and engagement, illicit trade, trade and distribution, marketing, manufacturing)

About Company

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited

https://sevenup.seamlesshiring.com

Just like Nigeria, the entity SevenUp Bottling Company was conceived in 1959 by a great visionary named Mohammed El-Khalil and began operations as a soft drink bottling company. As a company, we have since achieved great success in the soft drink and bottling industries since beginning operations on October 1st of, 1960. As one of the longest-standing businesses in Nigeria, we have proudly contributed to job creation and partnered with many Nigerian suppliers and establishments. We also currently have nine plants across the country. SBC has a wide offering of sugar-sweetened and sugar-free non-alcoholic beverages. We can also boast of having Nigerian favourites like Pepsi, Seven-Up, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, and Teem in several variants and line extensions in our portfolio. Our history also contains iconic marketing campaigns such as ‘Fido Dido,’ ‘The Three Orange Men,’ and ‘The Pepsi Long Throat’ campaign. We are fueled by the need to ‘refresh and inspire a youthful lifestyle’ and our mission is guided by principles like hard work, determination, integrity, honesty, sustainability, fun, and refreshment. That’s why our brands champion and complement the music scene, sports, and the all-around ‘good life.’