Corporate Counsel

Position Snapshot

Location: Vevey, Switzerland
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract

What we offer at Nestlé

Flexible work policies in terms of core hours and working from home. Please talk to us during the recruitment
process about what flexibility could look like for you!
Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits

Position Summary

As a Corporate Counsel at Nestlé, you help shape and drive the organization’s corporate and financial governance. You support the business and corporate functions and protect Nestlé’s interests by providing strategic legal counsel, managing legal risks, and ensuring compliance.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A Day in the Life of a Corporate Counsel

• Provide advice on Swiss law as well as legal and regulatory developments
• Prepare legal documentation and corporate acts for Annual General Meetings of Nestlé S.A. and its Swiss-based subsidiaries, and execute resolutions
• Ensure corporate legal housekeeping for Swiss-based Group entities, including preparing Board meetings and maintaining up-to-date constitutional documents
• Provide corporate legal advice to the business and corporate functions
• Advise on, prepare, and execute corporate transactions such as corporate reorganizations and closing of M&A transactions
• Handle the legal relationship with external auditors
• Ensure compliance with SIX Swiss Exchange regulations and debt capital markets regulations
• Support Treasury in its group external and internal financing transactions, cash management and hedging as well as related compliance activities
• Provide legal advice to the share registry, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications teams
• Interact with Group Accounting & Reporting, and Group Tax departments
• Instruct and monitor external counsel where required

What will make you successful

• Master in Law, bar exam (preferably Swiss, or track-record as an attorney-at-law practicing in Switzerland)
• Excellent understanding of corporate law, corporate governance, and securities regulations
• Demonstrable experience in managing corporate governance matters
• Proficiency in advising on and executing corporate transactions, such as corporate structuring, and other strategic initiatives
• Familiarity with corporate finance concepts, including financing, banking and hedging transactions
• Proven ability in navigating complex regulatory frameworks, including international corporate structures and stock exchange regulations
• Ability to build and develop relationship with cross functional teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines
• Demonstrated experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts
• Experience in instructing and monitoring external counsel
• Proficiency in English and French or German is essential, any additional language is a plus

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.

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