Head of Legal & Regulatory of Central Asia and Caucasus

компания "danone в россии" danone is a global company with an inspiring mission, "bringing health through food to as many people as possible". danone produces incredible products in 4 different areas: dairy, infant nutrition, medical nutrition and waters. our ambition is to become a purpose driven company with a collaborative, agile, open and learning organization where 10 unique talents grow. legal & regulatory teams are teams of experts who help danone to be on the safe side and mitigate risks in any business process. they are aware of any twists and turns of legislation in russia & cis and guarantee consistency of the business in this region. in this role you will: provide respecting the rule of law in activity of the company and protection of its legal interests, including oral and written consultation, drawing up the conclusions and references on legal questions coordinate the implementation of the legal part of the company projects (including projects in central asia and caucasus - georgia, armenia, azerbaijan uzbekistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan) in the sphere of its competence, organizing meetings, and preparing reports on the results of meetings to gm and other directors carry out legal expertize of drafts of the orders, instructions, policies, standards and other documents prepared in the company, vises them, and also participates, in necessary cases, in preparation of these documents provide the management of legal work in the company (including central asia and caucasus), an explanation of the current legislation and an order of its application, legal advices to structural divisions in claims activities, preparation and transfer of necessary materials to judicial and arbitration courts represent interests of the company in court, arbitration court for civil and administrative cases, and also in the state and public organizations by consideration of legal questions, carries out conducting judicial and arbitration affairs participate and represent company interests during negotiations with suppliers and service executives for conclusion, execution, changes or termination of contracts manage the conclusion, expertize, change and cancellation of all types of contracts (drawing up standard forms of contracts, introduction of offers on change and/or an exception of terms of the contract, contradicting interests of the company (including for central asia and caucasus), registration of protocols of disagreements) develop the implementation of delegation of authority procedures in the company and compliance manage the works of legal department including approving and expertizing contracts, legal opinions, and other documents prepared by subordinates coordinate and control corporate issues of the company, including caucasus by preparing resolutions and explanations for board of directors meetings of shareholders draw up statements, complaints, requests, appeals to state authorities, claims, actions and statements to the courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts, representing the interests of the enterprise and (or) its subsidiaries in cases in state bodies, courts of general jurisdiction, arbitration courts study, analyze and summarize the results of claims, litigation and arbitration matters, commercial contracts conclusion and execution of practices in order to develop proposals for addressing the identified deficiencies and improve the economic and financial activities of the company feel free to apply if you have: high legal education not less than 6 years of work experience in multinational manufacture or trade companies at the position of head of legal department/ senior lawyer fluent english knowledge of rules of registration, preparation process and conclusion of civil and labor contracts, collective agreements, tariff agreements, preparation and direction of claims, writs and other procedural documents, appeals to public authorities and local governmental authorities knowledge of legislative and other legal acts regulating all aspects of industrial and economic activity of the enterprise, including the copyright, patent, civil, criminal, labor, administrative, arbitration, civil procedure, criminal procedure, the financial, currency, customs, tax, land, environmental, antitrust and other branches of kazakhstan law knowledge of internal regulations and other local normative acts regulating the activities of the company knowledge of health and safety regulations and norms advanced pc user (ms office (word, excel, power point, microsoft project, visio) in danone you will get access to: important projects influencing the whole business attractive benefits package various trainings aimed at both the development of prof. competencies, and to strengthen leadership qualities a variety of professional and social projects, opportunities for knowledge exchange and training official employment and health insurance