Senior Director (Global Law, North America)

Join Mondelēz Global LLC, a leading global snacking company, as the Senior Director of Global Law for North America and the Global Professional Services Spend Area. In this senior leadership role, you will drive the legal strategy for North America's Supply Chain initiatives, negotiate commercial agreements with suppliers, and collaborate with senior leaders to manage risk and enable business objectives. You will also lead a high-performing team and drive continuous improvement in global contracting strategy and processes.

• Lead and execute the legal strategy for North America's Supply Chain initiatives and negotiations of commercial agreements with suppliers.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to drive outcomes, manage risk, and enable business objectives within a highly matrixed environment.
• Drive a continuous improvement agenda for global contracting strategy, processes, policies, governance, ways of working, and technology.

• Deep expertise in U.S. and international contract law and experience in successfully and strategically supporting Supply Chain initiatives and negotiations with global suppliers
• High degree of initiative, self‐direction, and willingness to challenge the status quo to help drive continuous improvement
• Demonstrable experience with technologies, including CLM and AI tools, as part of a contemporary proactive and risk-based contract strategy
• Substantial management skills, business judgment and commercial acumen with a capacity to enable decisions with integrity and give risk-calibrated advice demonstrating command of overall business objectives and the risks/rewards of each situation
• 12+ years’ experience in a large, international law firm and multi-national corporate in-house legal department
• Experience distilling and communicating complex legal issues for non-legal and multi-cultural audiences, including senior business and functional leaders
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to remain calm under pressure, adapt nimbly, build trust, instill confidence and influence others to take decisions with imperfect information rather than waiting for full certainty
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent legal degree from an accredited institution; ability to be licensed in the jurisdiction where employed
• Proven ability to successfully pursue supplier-related claims
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; team player who collaborates well with others and can manage numerous matters concurrently in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Ability to oversee and effectively and efficiently manage internal and external counsel
• Experience in driving change in a matrixed organization
• Experience in dealing with Supply Chain projects in Mexico
• Fluency in Spanish
• 5+ years of experience managing and developing teams