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3 weeks ago

Legal Counsel Americas EssCo

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Job Summary

Serve as trusted legal partner for EssCo’s operations across North and South America, supporting commercial, procurement, supply chain, HR, and business teams. Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements while handling import/export legal aspects, trade compliance, and distribution. Lead legal support for litigation, disputes, regulatory inquiries, and compliance investigations. Implement compliance, ethics, and governance frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, with focus on Brazil and Mexico.

Location: Brazil

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Key Responsibilities

•Partner with commercial, procurement, supply chain, HR, and business leadership teams across the Americas to provide practical legal advice.
•Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements including sales, distribution, procurement, manufacturing, supplier, confidentiality, and service contracts.
•Support import/export legal matters, trade compliance, and warehousing/distribution activities, with focus on Brazil and Mexico operations.
•Manage litigation, disputes, regulatory inquiries, and compliance investigations by coordinating external counsel and internal stakeholders.
•Support compliance, ethics, and governance frameworks (including anti-bribery, competition law, data privacy, and corporate governance) and contribute to strategic carve-out and transformation initiatives.

Key Requirements

•Qualified lawyer admitted to practice in at least one jurisdiction within the Americas (U.S., Canada, or a Latin American jurisdiction preferred).
•Consolidated years of post-qualification legal experience, ideally with a mix of private practice and in-house experience in multinational organizations.
•Strong experience in commercial contracting, procurement-related legal matters, supplier agreements, and general corporate law across the region.
•Solid exposure to compliance, investigations, litigation management, trade compliance, and regulatory matters across multiple jurisdictions.
•Fluent English and Portuguese communication skills; Spanish is highly preferred.

Skills:Stakeholder managementIndependent judgmentBusiness-oriented legal advising

Languages:EnglishPortugueseSpanish

Company Brief

DSM

DSM-Firmenich is a global leader in food ingredients, nutrition, fragrances and beauty solutions, formed by the merger of DSM and Firmenich to provide sustainable, science-driven products and services across food, health and personal care industries.

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Established Company

Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

Founded: 2023

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