Business Operations Legal Counsel - Viladecans, Barcelona provincia, España - Unilever

Isabel García

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_Business Context_
Unilever's Business Operations (_UBO_) organisation is a global operation consisting of, among other key areas:

Within the supply chain over 250 factories and over 400 warehouses, procuring billions of euros of goods and services and delivering over 4.5bn cases of products across more than 210,000 locations. Supply chain is a critical lever to Unilever's business fundamentals, with an increasing emphasis on the effective use of third-party manufacturers to manufacture our products.

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The end-to-end value supply chain controls most of Unilever's inventory, manages a majority of Unilever's costs and physical assets, and sets the foundation to generate revenue through delivering product availability.

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Market-leading fund, technology, data management and related projects connected within the tracing, reduction and tracking of GHG usage and the sustainable-sourcing and tracing of a wide range of commodities, including palm, soy, cocoa and diary.

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Unilever's supply chain is an industry leader in responsible and sustainable sourcing (_SUSO_
), with the Supply Chain responsible for bringing to life Unilever's Responsible Sourcing Policy in all areas.

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Within the UniOps function, Unilever purchases several EUR Bn a year of software and technology services, including cutting edge deals in the areas of digital mapping and sustainability tracing blockchain.

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The Customer Operations teams, which manage the global distribution of our products, including the fast-growing areas of supply chain and direct-to-customer e-commerce, including outsourcing of some supply chain operations functions and complex logistics projects.

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Within the Commodity Risk Management (_CRM_
) team within UAPL, hedges EUR 5 to 7 billion of commodity price exposures per year.

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These areas are supported by a specialist, lean global legal team business partners, called the Unilever Business Operations (_UBO_) Legal Team located in Singapore, London, Rotterdam, Bangalore, New York, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Durban/Johannesburg and Barcelona.


The advertised position is within both the Ice Cream global legal team and the UBO global legal team based in Barcelona and co-locating with other senior Unilever legal team members, with day to day reporting to the relevant Business Operations GC (legal director) responsible for Ice Cream Product Supply and Procurement.


You will be, closely supported by a multi-tiered system of internal and external drafting and negotiation supports, including contract lawyers, legal services insourcing and outsourcing and, where complexity necessitates, outside law firms.

This is a level 2B (Senior Counsel) role, and as such comes with significant scopes of responsibility.


This job includes the management and supervision of external and internal legal supports, and in large part the daily work concerns supervision of such work and management of matters of a complexity or internal sensitivity that cannot be fully outsourced.


  • Where you will fit in:_
  • Member of the global UBO Legal team and the global Ice Cream Legal team.
  • Mentoring of junior colleagues within the Unilever Powerhouse legal team in Bangalore.
  • Day to day reporting to the Business Operations GC (Legal Director) responsible for Ice Cream Product Supply and Procurement, who will also provide daily supervision and expertise training.
  • You will have multiple inhouse FTE junior and midlevel legal supports, and also access where needed to a pool of mature contractors for bespoke work, and also, as complexity dictates, to law firms.
  • Supporting the Business Operations GC in business partnering Ice Cream Business Group for product supply and procurement matters globally.
  • Leading business partnering with EU procurement and customer operations (logistics) colleagues focused on Ice Cream product supply chain.
  • Member of the broader global legal function, cooperating with: BU GCs, UBO lawyer networks, country lawyers, patent/IP specialists, competition law specialists, and other legal colleagues and internal Tax, Central Business Model, HR, Quality, Safety, Finance and Insurance experts.
  • Some attendance in a local Unilever office will be required, within our hybrid flexible working policies and guidelines.
  • What you will do the Scopes of Work:_
  • You will support primarily the teams listed above, as a legal business partner, and leveraging inhouse and external legal team supports, including supporting the following work areas:
  • _ As Senior Counsel for the Ice Cream supply chain:_


This work involves supporting the many facets of the global Ice Cream business group's supply chain and related needs, including manufacturing network related projects and projects that overlap with the other portfolios e.g., work in carbon reduction in the Ice Cream network, optimizing cold chain projects, ice cream cabinet management etc.

It also involves work on contract manufacturing and new procurement mod

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