Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.
You are responsible for the company's legal activities in a region, business units and /or sub-function areas in the country or across multiple countries. To support commercial and corporate initiatives, you identify business needs and design and implement our legal strategy through the service delivery model. You advise the business on risk, anticipating and addressing internal and external factors and apply your legal specialty area experience to collaborate with other legal colleagues to address legal issues or concerns.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Develop and ensure the implementation of legal strategies to enable Mondelēz International to compete aggressively, and protect our people, assets and reputation while complying with legal requirements and standards of ethical conduct.
- You will provide guidance and support to ensure managers are making reasonable and informed decisions regarding legal risks;
- Manage the legal strategy with outside counsel, including spending without compromising financial and reputational risk;
- Provide in-house and external legal expertise to address the increasingly complex legal environment by partnering with business units, regions and global stakeholders to identify and advise on applicable laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
You will be responsible for the legal support to all departments in Ukraine and corporate legal support to all legal entities in Ukraine & Moldova. You will need to advise on a regular basis the general management of the company.
What extra ingredients you will bring:
- University Degree in Law
- 5+ years of practical experience at the position of legal consultant / counsel in an international company
- Bar License shall be a bonus
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, team work skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Ukrainian and English
- High standard of written and verbal business correspondence
- Ability to work under pressure in achievement of company's targets
- Ability to solve professionally different legal problems emerging in the everyday work of company
- Ability to learn quickly and to adapt to new operational/business environment
Job specific requirements:
- Digital fluency, ability to leverage various AI or non-AI powered tools existing in the company to optimize the legal service delivery
- Curiosity and openness to pilot new AI tools tested in LCS
- Excellent cross functional collaboration capabilities in a matrix organization (country, BU, Region, Global)
Travel requirements:
- Locally, in Ukraine, as required from time to time to meet with various governmental bodies or by different activities required in our plants.
Relocation Support Available?
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our succes
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Job Type
Regular
Legal Business Growth Partners and Services
Legal
Skills Required
- University Degree in Law
- 5+ years of practical experience as legal consultant/counsel in an international company
- Bar license
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Ukrainian and English
- Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
- High standard of written and verbal business correspondence
- Ability to work under pressure to achieve company targets
- Ability to professionally solve a variety of legal problems arising in everyday company operations
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new operational/business environments
- Digital fluency and ability to leverage AI and non-AI powered tools to optimize legal service delivery
- Curiosity and openness to pilot new AI tools
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration capabilities in a matrix organization
Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) structure combines a 4.5% basic company contribution with up to an additional 4.5% match, with company contributions vesting after two years. This provides up to 9% in company contributions when at least 6% is contributed by the employee.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical carrier options are offered with in‑network preventive care at 100%, plus company‑paid basic life insurance and short‑term disability. Optional long‑term disability and supplemental life/AD&D expand protection choices.
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Parental & Family Support — A global parental‑leave standard supports birth, adoptive, and foster parents across the enterprise. Additional supports include adoption and surrogacy assistance, childcare discounts, and an Employee Assistance Program with counseling and well‑being tools.
Mondelēz International Insights
What We Do
Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world. Our Purpose Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. Our Brands We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Our People Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Our Strategies We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities: • Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth • Execution: drive operational excellence • Culture: build a winning growth culture
Why Work With Us
We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.
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