Обязанности и достижения:
Highly motivated legal professional with extensive experience in commercial, real estate, corporate and employment law, and strong management and interpersonal skills
> Taking the lead for all legal matters related to the company’s operations from dealing with corporate matters, contract and litigation management to implementation of compliance policies, procedures & standards and management of the external counsels
> Legal assistance in all areas of the company’s business including corporate governance, internal audit, regulatory inspections and audits, incident management, insurance recovery, etc.
> Building up and managing the company’s legal team in order to ensure full scope legal support to the day-to-day operational activities of the company, inter alia, in the following areas:
COMMERCIAL LAW
- Providing pro-active substantive counsel and legal support to the company’s executives and business teams within other functions on complex and sensitive legal and business issues (setting up and ongoing operational support of offline and online stores, retail and wholesale trading, import operations, marketplace operations, launching of storage facilities, eventual launching the delivery of goods to Kazakhstan and Belarus, consumer protection issues, data protection etc.), contributing to the development of the company’s business strategy
- Drafting and negotiation of a range of commercial contracts for supply and distribution of the products in Russia, logistics and warehousing operations, construction and maintenance works, marketing, IT, e-commerce and store’s servicing
- Full legal support of day-to-day commercial activities, including e-commerce (handling consumers’ claims, drafting of all necessary legal documents, compliance issues resolution, etc.)
- Dispute resolution with contractors, consumers, public authorities
REAL ESTATE LAW
- Negotiation and drafting of commercial and residential lease agreements
- Ongoing legal support with regard to the real estate issues (interaction with proprietors, assistance in connection with registration formalities, etc.)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
- Drafting of trademark licence and franchising agreements
- Ongoing legal assistance with regard to registration, use and protection of IP assets
CORPORATE LAW
- Opening and registration of the company’s branches and other separate subdivisions in Russia
- General corporate issues, including corporate management and corporate restructuring
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Providing legal support to the company’s HR function for relevant employment law related matters, including:
- Employment aspects of corporate restructuring
- Implementation of internal policies, procedures and standards in connection with employment matters
- Conclusion, amending and termination of employment agreements
- Application of disciplinary sanctions
- Resolution of conflicts with the company’s employees
> Driving legal talent development, alignment of key legal topics and close collaboration across the legal function
> Assessing legal capabilities, resources and the organisational model at the country level
> Interaction with legal teams and other functions of the company’s head office and business units of KIABI Group in provision of legal expertise (negotiation of intercompany agreements, restructuring of global supply chain, IP and data protection related matters, global insurance, design of product labels and price tags, etc.)