General Counsel Israel

General Counsel Israel

Job Description

Become part of the team powering household names like Lily®, Kleenex®, Nikol®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®. At Arbex, everything you need is right here—innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark. 

Provide leadership, commercially astute legal advice to the accomplishment of the objectives of the Israel IFP business, and to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and company policies. 

Key Interfaces



* Line Manager - General Counsel UK & EMEA 


* General Counsel IFP 


* Israel and EMEA sales and marketing Teams 


* Global Legal team - specifically Marketing, Procurement, Employment & Labour Counsels; Company Secretariat 


* Global Compliance Team 

Required Qualifications 


* Legal lead for legal matters within Israel, reporting to General Counsel UK & EMEA 


* Day to day management of legal issues affecting Israel in conjunction with global team: 
+ Handling marketing and advertising issues in Israel with support of global Marketing Counsel 
+ Managing Employment and Labour issues in conjunction with global Employment & Labour Counsel 
+ Management of sales contract
+ Working with global Procurement Counsel to support local mills 


* Member of IFP Israel Leadership Team 


* Developing and implementing a strategic process for use of external counsel in Israel 


* Leadership in regulatory investigations, legal disputes and claims 

Competencies


* Strong project management skills, affirmative, pragmatic, on top of every situation


* Close but unbiased relation to business and proven ability to operate as trusted business partner and leader


* Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, culturally sensitive and with ability to flex style and approach depending on issue


* Team player attitude, respectful, collaborative, confident and pragmatic approach


* Commercial awareness / acumen and able to think outside the box


* Barriers to success – inability to provide strategic commercially focussed advice, inability to communicate complex information clearly to stakeholders 


* Good knowledge of contract law, antirust, anticorruption, corporate matters and governance, IP, regulatory (incl.

EHS) and marketing/ advertising laws including claims, data privacy


* Proven Ability to develop sound and robust compliance program and processes


* Integrity – must lead by example and willing to take unpopular decisions if necessary


* Capable of rational and analytic thinking leading to workable solutions which demonstrate sound and unbiased judgment


* Ability to distill key risks and develop actionable risk management solutions

Preferred Qualifications 


* Qualification to practice law with a minimum of 8 years experience  within an international company or law firm


* In-depth experience gained preferably with an ...