Jobs at Unilever

Purpose of Role

To assist the General Counsel - Plantations to provide, provide legal services to the company; business partner management; handle legal related queries on communications, industrial relations, tax, finance and operating subsidiaries. Provide support on company secretarial matters.

Stakeholders:

Internal – Interface with all the functions at all levels (receive and understand the nature of legal requests and provide legal solutions to them)

External - External Advocates, Court officials, State and local government officials, State law press (provide support to in terms of documentation and witnesses, attend pre-trial briefing sessions and legal meetings, liaise with state and local government officials on rates billed, deal with court officials during attendance at court sessions)

Accountabilities

Legal

• Identify legal risks and helps the business navigate them, providing legally compliant creative solutions which deliver competitive advantage to the business objectives taking into account compliance, reputation, cost, risk and other consequences.
• Advise various functions: General Management, operations, HR, finance, engineering and R&D on statutory obligations under the relevant legal Acts and associated legislation and regulations relating to matters such as governance frameworks.
• Development and maintenance of relationships with relevant external contacts (e.g. external lawyers, registrars, regulators, external bodies etc);
• Review legal contracts and other legal documents generally.
• Manage records of contracts, land documents, litigation files & other legal documents deposited with Legal department for safekeeping.
• Litigation support - representation of Unilever at court sessions and follow up of external advocates to deliver value for legal fees paid.
• Facilitate appropriate legal documentation and witnesses for the litigation process responsible for litigation update reports.
• Facilitate the availability of laws and regulations relevant to company operations research and review laws and regulations regulating the company advisor on all changes to laws and regulations.
• Manage the company’s lease portfolio alert the relevant functions on expiry of leases and facilitate renewal and termination of leases facilitate payment of rent and rates.

Company Secretary

• Provide company secretarial services to the Company and ensure proper governance of all entities.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory obligations, reporting requirements and disclosures for listed companies.
• Preparing Board resolutions and minutes of Board meetings and Annual General Meetings. 
• Advising the finance team on the reporting requirements and disclosures required under the Companies Act and other relevant laws.
• Organizing the company and subsidiary’s Board meetings as well as Board Committee Meetings.
• Ensure filing of Annual Returns, and resolutions relating to appointment and resignation of Directors and Secretaries.
• Update Company Registers and manage the use of the Company Seal

Business Integrity support from time to time

• Cascade and awareness of COBP and COBP Policies and ensure specific structured awareness and training.
• Ensure visibility and/or access to the COBP and the various reporting channels to employees, contractors and suppliers.
• Enforcing COBP between Unilever employees, its customers, contractors, and suppliers.
• Management of cases on the case management system- logging, updating and closure of cases.
• Attend specific disciplinary hearings.
• Ensure implementation of the Code Sanctions Standard when making decisions on Code cases.
• End-to-end responsibility for all Code investigations, which includes preparation of investigation plans, sanction proposal and closure of cases with the BI Committee.
• Support the local Business Integrity Committee Chair with agendas, minutes, reports and follow-up.
• Engagement with (local) procurement and high-risk 3rd parties to ensure 3rd Party compliance with relevant policies and standards; and
• Provide other ad hoc legal and compliance services as may be required from time to time.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• A graduate of Law (LLB)
• Call to Bar (Member of Law Society of Kenya & current practicing certificate)
• Five (5)   years post- call experience in Corporate/commercial Law practice or related job experience
• Above average communication skills (oral & written)
• Above average analytical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Attention to details
• Above average team skills
• Appetite for learning
• Good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
• Certified Company Secretary is an added advantage

Travel

• As per job/site requirements, local travel likely.

Leadership Behavior

• Should meet expectations on the Unilever Standards of Leadership behaviors relevant to this work level.

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Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

East Africa is a multi-country organisation (MCO) comprising of Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda as onshore entities but also servicing of Tanzania, Rwanda and Djibouti. The role of Marketing Lead F&R Kenya has the responsibility of developing and implementing the brand strategy for the Kenya for the Foods & Refreshment division which is currently the fastest growing and most profitable division in country.

• The role has overall responsibility for co-creating the country’s Brand Marketing Plan for the division.
• Building business partnerships with regional category/brand team as well as Channel Category Development, Finance and Supply Chain – leading the cross functional Country Category Business Teams (CCBTs) in strategic and tactical decision making to build, develop and drive Foods & Refreshments brands across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
• Monitoring brand performance and implementing relevant solutions in true agile fashion.
• Sit on the EA F&R Leadership Team and play an active role in creating, cascading and implementing business strategy for the country.

Main Accountabilities

• Leads and inspires multi-functional teams to create national Brand Marketing Plans which build the brands in key channels, considering Channel Category plans and moves the brand equity towards the global vision.
• Leads the development and execution of launch and re-launch plans using funds efficiently to achieve measurable objectives.
• Design and model solutions for consumer innovation and experience, identifying brand development opportunities in new markets and future markets.
• Lead for market- and customer-knowledge driven input into innovation platform projects and brand planning to ensure requirements of the category will be met in the future
• Champion the consumer needs and brand purpose within the overall business including leading in the deployment of communication content in the local market at all relevant consumer and shopper touch points.
• Achieve brand share and profitable NPS/profit growth targets by leading the marketing and cross functional teams in the translation of brand & marketing plans into market-implementation and customer plans (with potential for tailor-made activities)
• Drives performance evaluation of national support activities and in-store implementation against measurable objectives and relentlessly seeks ways to improve effectiveness of investments.
• Lead the development of a share-growth-oriented marketing & category plan that seizes opportunities in product renovation, pricing strategy, competitor activities, customer/channel (e.g. convenience format, discounter) specific needs.

Direct Reports

• Category Manager Savoury
• Brand Manager Savoury
• UFLP trainees (as required)

Key Interfaces

• East Africa leadership team
• Country Leadership Teams
• General Management, Customer Development, Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Legal, IT and Communications
• Regional/Global Platform teams

Key Skills

• Category Building
• Brand Development
• Brand Marketing Planning

Relevant Experience

• 9+ years experience with at least three roles at WL2 in Brand Building, Brand Development, Channel Category Development or Account Management
• Proven experience in developing and implementing effective and integrated Brand Marketing Plan.
• Proven project and budget management experience