Senior Legal Manager

For our Legal Department, we are looking for a Senior Legal Manager to join our team.

Job content: manages and develops legal practices to support our retail activity. Understands the business and proposes solutions.

Job level within the organization: Reporting to the Head of Legal- Southeastern Europe (direct line) and to the General Manager (dotted line).

Job responsibilities are:

● Coordinating the entire legal team by supervising and reviewing the activity of the department,
● Reporting to the Head of Legal- Southeastern Europe (direct line) and to the General Manager (dotted line) about the activity of the legal department and the status of various projects during regular department meetings,
● Finding efficient and creative solutions to improve dept. activity,
● Establishing department’s strategy, long time and short time objectives and following up their accomplishment,
● Performing risk assessment for certain projects and taking decisions in terms of law compliance when implementing the projects,
● Having the decisional and signature right related to the legal activity of the company,
● Drafting, reviewing, approving and following up the unwinding of all company contracts,
● Providing legal advice and assistance in all activity fields,
● Corporate Housekeeping (changing, updating and registering the corporate files),
● Establishing and monitoring the legal budget and approving the department’s expenses,
● Being responsible for people development of the legal team in terms of providing the necessary training programs, learning materials and legal tools,
● Performs performance appraisals for the legal personnel,
● Proposes salary increases and various benefits for the legal personnel,
● Participating in Group initiatives,
● Providing legal advice for M&A projects,
● Keeping the relation with the external lawyers in terms of evaluating the accuracy of legal advice given and the correspondence with the specificity of company’s business,
● Assuring the law compliance by identifying the legal requirements according to the specific legislation related to company’s activity (retail) and following up the compliance with these requirements,
● Providing legal opinion to the Authorization Department by analyzing the inspection minutes,
● Representing the company in relation with the public authorities,

Job requirements are as follows:


● University graduated (Law University),
● Very good knowledge of Corporate Law, Commercial Law (Retail legislation it's a plus),
● Minimum 3 years of experience in a management position in a legal dept,
● Very good English skills,
● Goal and results oriented,
● Strong diplomacy skills, with proven ability to build consensus in difficult situations and gain support in achieving goals,
● Very good communication and negotiation skills,
● Solution provider for business challenges,
● High level of “emotional intelligence” – understands what motivates people, nimble in adapting to different personalities, is firm-but-fair with people, establishes a positive tone in the department and with others that creates cooperation and improves performance/morale, recognizes outstanding results and shares success with the team,
● Empowers people by allowing them to express their opinion and listening to their ideas, by encouraging them to take decisions with impact in their work, by involving them in the decisional process at department level and in building the strategy of the department,
● Capable to work in an informal and flexible environment,
● Willingness to travel periodically within Europe and to the U.S. for meetings and project-related work.

Company presentation:

MEGA IMAGE is a well-known chain of supermarkets, part of the Belgian international retailer Delhaize Group. For more information about us, please visit our websites: www.delhaizegroup.com, www.mega-image.ro

Benefitting of the Delhaize Group’s 140 years of retail experience, MEGA IMAGE is active on the Romanian market since 1995, providing ever since quality services for its customers and associates.

Therefore, it will not come as a surprise that our vision is: “Nutritious, Healthy, Safe and Affordable. Together, we deliver the best of Mega Image for life.”

Together, we aspire to enrich the lives of our customers, associates, and the communities we serve in a sustainable way.

Together, we offer assortments, products and services that are nutritious, healthy and safe, everyday, at prices all customers can afford.

We are connected with our colleagues across the Group. We learn, we grow talent and we innovate. We support, we respect and we inspire each other.

We share a common set of values that make us stronger as a team and as individuals. The values are the foundation of our behavior. They are key to our success.

Our values are:

Determination
Integrity
Courage
Humility
Humor

MEGA IMAGE’s Support Functions: a Company looking for TALENTS

MEGA IMAGE head quarter functions are designed to offer store support by facilitating strategic coherence and ease up effective execution.
Working in retail it allows you to develop in a dynamic environment, where good humor is welcome and team work is always cherished.
By joining the support functions of MEGA IMAGE, you will have the opportunity to work in an international, flexible, socially responsible and dynamic organization, enhancing initiatives and personal development. You will also receive many opportunities for learning and connecting with your colleagues around the world.

Does this sound as an organization where YOU could perfectly fit in?
Then you are welcome to JOIN US!

How to apply: Simply send your application at cichim@mega-image.ro.


Thank you!