Job Opportunities at Colgate-Palmolive

Key Responsibilities 

• Managing relationships with key executive subsidiary business partners and stakeholders by clarifying partner intentions and needs, translate into relevant legal topics, advises resources to address legal issues and needs
• Providing subsidiary legal counsel by assisting in defining issues, gathers pertinent information/legal background, formulates and provides recommendations, brings additional legal resources to bear as vital
• Assists in clearance of advertising and sales promotion materials;
• Customizes global/divisional contracts and templates for local legal requirements
• Preparing and advising on corporate communications and related requests to ensure compliance
• Monitoring government agency and industry associations for issues/concerns pertinent to CP; attend legal committees of local industry associations
• Supporting local corporate governance related activities, filings, legal status
• Providing support for legal HR administration at the local level
• Responding to legal challenges, coordinating litigation related activities, e.g. involving Outside Counsel, Division or Corp Specialists; recording items in databases as required
• Assists with risk and crisis management
• Assist and provide support for internal and external audits and remediation actions
• Maintain all appropriate databases, all companies record up to date using company available repository tools on a timely manner and reporting back
• Managing external legal counsel whenever required including setting out and controlling spend including timeous spend management on company repository tools
• Conducts training workshops on legal matters

BRAND PROTECTION/ANTI-COUNTERFEITING

• Responsible for helping to develop regional and local strategies (country specific) plans in the field of Brand protection
• Accountable for managing all brand protection related work (including investigations, raids/sweeps, border protection work, law enforcement trainings, civil litigation, criminal prosecutions) in the hub
• Coordinating the work of consultants, investigators, and outside counsel; working closely with law enforcement, and working as a key liaison among key stakeholders, including the BPU, the division and all involved subs/hubs
• Seek mentorship when required
• Timely reporting back including but not limited to filling internal reporting tools ensuring transparency in all efforts

Required Qualifications 

• A Bachelor's degree Law degree or related field
• Minimum 3 years of post admittance experience in South Africa in a commercial, litigation and marketing legal role with operational experience
• Experience in Drafting and vetting of legal documentation
• Experience with FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and anti-bribery best practices.

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Job Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of Customer Pricing Data Bases in respect to South Africa
• Preparation of documentation for List price changes, obtaining the Necessary authorizations and information for the Budget and estimate reviews.
• Allocation of the required pricing data for product and customer master data fields
• Enforcement of the Approved Pricing Policies
• Accurate storage of pricing data in line with required guidelines
• Investigation of every pricing discrepancy relating to customer order entry with the rectification and prevention thereof.
• Customer visitations in respect to keep the customer price and product master data in alignment with SA price and product master data. 
• Assist in delivering the company DSO targets 
• List price Maintenance both local South Africa as well as Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland
• Financial reporting 
• Pricing Credit notes to investigated and authorized or rejected with the objective created to minimize the reason for the creation 
• Checking and updating of product master data to ensure pricing fields are updated and correct.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum 3 years of experience as Pricing Administrator in FMCG environment
• Proficient in SAP, Excel and Google Sheets skills.
• Excellent analytics and problem solving skills.