Job Description :

Job Title : Legal & Business Integrity Manager

Location : Seoul, Korea

Contract Term : Permanent

Report to : Legal Director

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of over 200 brands all over the world including Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Singleton and Don Julio. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world and in Korea. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Diageo Korea is a fast growing and vibrant business, with strong strategic importance and a critical contributor to our APAC Region. There are three pillars of the Diageo business in Korea – our category leading International whisky business with the World’s number 1 Scotch whisky Johnnie Walker, our distinctive and characterful premium beer business with the world’s number 1 stout, Guinness and our growth brands portfolio across tequila, malts, gins and liqueur. We have some of the world’s most iconic brands, a well-defined pathway to long term growth and a dynamic and forward looking team bringing to life our brands in the market place.

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About the Role

Legal & BI Manager will support the achievement of the Korea market growth strategy and Diageo’s Performance Ambition. This role will provide robust and efficient legal & BI support for long-term, balanced success, employing commercial competence, lateral thinking, outstanding risk management and brilliant execution. This role reports directly to Legal Director of Diageo Korea.

The top accountabilities are:

[LEGAL]

• Support the Legal Director of Diageo Korea and provide day-to-day legal support and advice to all departments in Diageo Korea to enable Diageo to beat the competition and drive achievement of performance goals.

• Draft, review, negotiate and advise on various legal documents including but not limited to contracts.

• Advise on regulatory issues related to National Tax Service, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Fair Trade Commission, etc.

• Carry out general legal research and monitor changes in the regulatory landscape.

• Handle pending and threatened disputes.

• Work collaboratively with other global teams such as IP, Antitrust, Data Privacy, Procurement, Brand Protection, Corporate Security, etc. for issues relevant to Diageo Korea.

• Assist with development of team know-how and lead the processes for document and knowledge management, and records retention.

• Manage external counsels and liaise external counsels as appropriate for expert advice in a cost-effective way.

[BUSINESS INTEGRITY]

• Influence and advise senior stakeholders to maintain a strong tone-at-the-top, and reinforce accountability and awareness of the Business Integrity agenda.

• Shape the market’s/function’s culture of integrity, which includes proactive risk identification and developing plans to effectively embed our Code and policies through tailored engagement interventions.

• Act as a trusted advisor across all levels of the organisation to drive compliant behavior and provide decision support on risk, control, and compliance matters.

• In partnership with Global BI and the Learning & Development team, ensure proper delivery of a risk-based training programme on our Code, policies and standards, and monitor effectiveness of the same.

• Oversee the market’s/function’s breach management process (including publicising SpeakUp channels, supporting investigations as assigned, undertaking remediation management, and conduct a ‘root cause analysis’ to inform 'lessons learned' communications / engagement as needed.

• Facilitate risk management activities, coordinate periodic governance forums (i.e. RMCs), and oversee automatic monitoring / analytics to enable simplified and proactive management of risk.

• Use data related to compliance and the insights from such data to enable timely actions and decision making.

• Facilitate market’s/function’s governance (compliance, risk, controls), such as the tracking and reporting of remediations for identified deficiencies within agreed upon time periods, and supporting submissions to the ARC and FAC.

• Support the Global Controls Assurance (GCA) team in annual mapping of controls owners to help identify ownership changes since prior year.

• Advise GCA as to the market’s/function’s unique risks, if any, for example, by sharing risk-based inputs on non-SOX scoping (as SOX scoping is fully handled by GCA) and the controls training agenda (as proposed and provided by GCA).

• Inform relevant stakeholders as to impact of new regulations related to compliance and lead business change projects to embed same in the market or function.

• Oversee business continuity/Business Continuity Management.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a lawyer in Korea or in an English-speaking jurisdiction

• 5 7 years of experience in law firms or in-house, experience in alcohol industry is a plus

• Strong expertise in regulations and laws with extensive knowledge of business transactions

• High level of accuracy in work, attentiveness to details

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• A team player with strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong dedication to personal growth and capability building

• High level of integrity

• Proficiency in both Korean and English

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Seoul Office

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-05-22

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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