Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. You use your ability to work independently, your in-depth knowledge, and significant experience in a specialty area to apply legal knowledge in the practice area and propose legal solutions and alternatives to in-house counsel.

How you will contribute

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. In this role, you provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, region and global stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed. You will operate systems and technologies relevant to the area of support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience in a legal specialty area to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist Global and North America Procurement organization in the day-to-day commercial negotiations and associated matters that arise in the course of business
• Assist Counsels in drafting and reviewing commercial agreements
• Coordinate updates to commercial contract templates in the Contract Lifecycle Management system
• Coordinate training calendar for Procurement and other relevant functions
• Lead governance for communicating Global Law’s related initiatives to relevant stakeholders.
• Work with the Global Law and IP Teams on supporting regional/global R&D related contracts (e.g. Confidentiality Agreements, Joint Development Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements)
• Work with Global Law Team to find innovative ways to evolve procedures, ways of working and technologies related to contracting, considering global standards in connection with BU needs

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university
• 3+ years of experience with contract negotiation experience preferentially in a multi-national corporate legal department
• Capable of cooperation with others in a fast-paced team environment. Must have a “no job is too big or too small” can do attitude and a willingness to confront hurdles and problems with the determination to always find a way forward
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, and legal document management systems, preferentially with Contract Lifecycle Management tools is
• Effective communication (verbal, written and listening), interpersonal, persuasion and negotiation skills
• Excellent organizational, planning and priority setting skills, including demonstrating flexibility when work assignments or priorities change
• Efficiency, accuracy, attention to detail and thoroughness in completing an assignment
• Self-motivated, self-starter
• Collaborative team player

Location:

Based in Chicago, US - hybrid in office.

No relocation support available.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz , Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.

Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.

For office-based, salaried roles at Bakery and Customer Service & Logistics locations, and some remote roles proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to be eligible for employment. Religious, medical and/or other accommodations as required by law will be considered on a case by case basis. You may review the Mondelēz COVID vaccination policy by visiting the US careers website at https://www.mondelezinternational.com/United-States . This COVID-19 vaccine mandate does not apply to several U.S. states that do not permit certain vaccination mandates, including, but not limited to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.

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