As Corporate Legal Counsel – Corporate Secretary & Global Affiliate Support , you will provide comprehensive corporate secretarial support to Headquarters with a focus on maintaining the company’s legal entities worldwide and ensuring compliance with local corporate requirements.
This includes supporting French affiliates, coordinating global subsidiary governance, managing entity data, and enabling reliable and efficient intra-group corporate processes in alignment with Pernod Ricard’s strategic objectives.
Key responsibilities
Corporate secretarial duties – France perimeter
- Draft and maintain board/shareholder resolutions, meeting minutes, and annual meeting materials for ~20 French affiliates (including Pernod Ricard SA, a listed company).
- Coordinate board meetings (scheduling, agenda, documentation).
- Maintain corporate records and minute books.
Affiliate support & organization chart management
- Ensure Group Affiliates Organization Charts are accurate and up to date (shareholding & governance structures).
- Serve as a point of contact for company law support (POAs, shareholder meeting minutes, certifications, notarizations, attestations).
- Provide legal support for restructuring operations (drafting, signatures, formalities).
- Define guidelines and standards for affiliate corporate governance (e.g. board composition, DoAs).
Global corporate database management
- Act as database administrator for the Group Affiliates Organization Charts tool (vendor management, structure design, process improvements).
- Train and support local teams to update data, ensuring reliability and compliance.
- Draft templates and streamline processes to reduce affiliate workload.
- Be proactive in finding any solutions which will ensure full effectiveness of the tool.
Additional contributions
- Support HQ Corporate Governance team on Annual Shareholders’ Meeting preparation and formalities (including closed period compliance).
- Act as point of contact for risk reporting database.
- Provide assistance on KYC/AML requests and regulatory filings.
- Master’s degree in Law (or equivalent) with 5+ years’ experience as a corporate counsel/paralegal, ideally in a multinational corporate environment or law firm.
- Proven expertise in corporate secretarial duties, entity management, and governance standards.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Highly proactive personality with strong willingness to provide solutions globally enforceable.
- Analytical and thorough, able to interact with diverse stakeholders and lead transversal initiatives.
- Skilled in managing complex databases and coordinating with international subsidiaries.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, entity management software (e.g. Dilitrust) and reporting tools.
- Languages: Fluent French & English.
Wait, there’s more…
We offer you an outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture, the possibility to work remotely (up to 2 days a week), a very complete mutual insurance, an attractive compensation including profit-sharing, the possibility to train daily, employee events…
Pernod Ricard is committed to offering equal opportunities to all talents. Our recruitment methods focus on skills and competencies.
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Target Hire Date:
2026-01-01Target End Date:
Top Skills
What We Do
Pernod Ricard is a convivial, responsible and successful global wine and spirits group and the #1 premium spirits organisation in the world. The Group represents 240 premium brands available in more than 160 countries. We are 18,500 exceptionally talented people worldwide with our own salesforce in 73 countries.
Our portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the market with every major category of wine and spirits, providing Pernod Ricard with a unique competitive advantage. To keep growing our business, transforming our industry and making a positive impact on the world, we believe in the power of human connection. Creating ‘convivialité’ is our business and our raison d’être.
As ‘créateurs de convivialité’, our purpose is to turn every social interaction into a genuine, friendly and responsible experience of sharing. We believe there can be no convivialité with excess and strive to be sustainable and responsible at every step, from grain to glass.
