Legal and Business Integrity Director at Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL)

Serengeti Breweries Ltd (SBL)

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Legal and Business Integrity Director
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Legal and Business Integrity Director at Serengeti Breweries Ltd (SBL) April 2024
time type Full time
job requisition id JR1095436

Job Description :
Context/Scope
Serengeti
Breweries Limited (SBL) is a fully integrated beverage business in
Diageo Africa (supply and demand for beer and spirits). SBL flagship
brand is Serengeti Premium Lager. Other brands in the portfolio include
Guinness and Pilsner. SBL is also the distributor of several global
Diageo international renowned spirits brands such as Johnnie Walker,
Smirnoff, Gordon’s, Bailey’s and Captain Morgan.

Scope of the role
Primary accountability for Legal, Compliance, and Security
Purpose of Role

• Enable
  SBL to achieve its business objectives in a legally compliant way while
  unlocking commercial opportunity through good practice.
• Preserve
  value (financial and reputational) by minimising the risk of value
  leakage and litigation and maintaining compliance with laws and Diageo’s
  Codes.
• Support SBL in developing best practice corporate governance, understanding Statement of Authorities.
• Ensure
  the Function’s activities are prioritised and the Function is staffed
  internally and externally to maximise SBL’s business objectives and
  performance.

Complexity
The most significant
financial contribution is the effective management of legal risk e.g.
through clear commercial advice to business functions, contract
negotiation and documentation, management of litigation, training of
staff and by driving ethical and compliant behaviours to drive
sustainable growth.

Leadership Responsibilities and Decision Making Rights

• Proactively provide commercial and pragmatic legal advice and solutions
  for all aspects of SBL’s business and any other businesses of
  Diageo/EABL in Tanzania.
• A member of the SBL Executive team.
• Being
  a lead driver in ensuring that Diageo/SBL’s codes and policies are
  adhered to as well as driving sustainable behaviours where the local
  laws may be less rigorous than the codes and policies, including
  provision of on-point training.
• Providing assistance to the EABL Company Secretary in managing the SBL board, board committee and general meetings;
• Providing
  assistance to the EABL Group Legal Counsel and SBL Managing Director in
  advising in relation to minority shareholders, rights;
• Responsible
  for ensuring good corporate governance including advising on best
  practice and training across a number of functions.
• With the
  assistance of Diageo Global Compliance and Diageo Legal Function, the
  Legal Counsel is responsible for aspects of the Company’s compliance
  agenda.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

• Function as a highly effective legal and business partner. Stay
  particularly close to the SBL Managing Director and Finance Director.
• Ensure
  that the Legal Function is an integral part of the SBL business
  (including visibility in-market) so it receives appropriate commercial
  and other functional inputs.
• Embed functional best practice in the business.
• Achieve
  the right balance between hands on “doing” of legal work, managing
  external lawyers and training of staff on relevant topics.
• Review
  current processes and ways of working with the aim to embed proactive
  and commercial legal support for SBL in particular in the context of a
  recently expanded EABL legal team and business.

Qualifications and experience required

• Formal legal qualifications and training as required by law to work as a legal practitioner in Tanzania.
• Strong
  commercial law background especially in the negotiation and
  documentation of commercial contracts relevant to SBL’s business and
  giving advice in relation to marketing, sales and promotion activities.
• A
  good working knowledge of the following legal areas – contracts,
  product liability, IP, employment, antitrust, litigation, corporate
  governance.
• A track record of effectively managing external lawyers generally and in relation to a large outsourced litigation caseload.
• Strong, analytical, drafting and negotiating skills.
• Strong inter-personal/communication skills.
• Strong commercial and pragmatic approach.

Barriers to success in role

• Inability
  to constantly reprioritise and manage expectations from a large and
  demanding business in a role that interacts with a high proportion of
  senior level managers.
• Inability to understand and manage ambiguity and risk in an appropriate manner
• Unwillingness to take and maintain strong positions with senior commercial management.
• Inability
  to operate within an unpredictable judicial and regulatory system,
  where existing legislation may be new and untested and where there are
  frequent political and societal pressures.

Worker Type :Regular
Primary Location:Dar es Salaam
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date : 2024-04-02