**Job Description :** **About us** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. **About the Function:** We’re legal experts, understanding the complex laws that surround our business and our much-loved brands. Our Legal team are responsible for a range of legal challenges, from Corporate and Intellectual Property to Merger & Acquisitions and Compliance. We’re always seeking new and creative ways to take on the evolving challenges that today’s commercial world presents. Our hard-working colleagues around the world are not just outstanding lawyers but also talent communicators and advisors. Whatever your skill as a lawyer, your distinct and valuable perspective will be celebrated and nurtured in our inclusive culture. **About the role:** Main Responsibilities: + Drives value through strategic initiatives and contribution on projects and agreements that could bring benefits and efficiencies to the business + Support the Tequila & Mezcal Legal Director in monitoring litigations, legal spend and handling the legal budget. + Provide legal counsel on the diverse matters related to the Tequila & Mezcal business, including corporate, financial, tax, regulatory, and contractual. + Perform effective risk assessment for on the Tequila & Mezcal business. + Guarantee legal protection to the business. + Promote before adequate authorities a safer, beneficial and just legal framework for the business. + Deliver the correct legal framework that guarantees Diageo´s reputation as the most trusted and respected Company. + Negotiate appropriate contracts, documents, and positions representing the Tequila & Mezcal business Qualifications: + **Essential** + Bachelors in Law (at least 10 years of experience). + Fluent English and Spanish + Strong communication skills + Strong public relationships capabilities. + Strong leadership capabilities. + Proficient Commercial, Public, Administrative, Corporate and Tax Law Knowledge. + Strong legal defense strategies designing capabilities. + Strong analytical skills especially in complex situations where a prompt and efficient solution is needed. + Honesty and strong personality with deep self-confidence + **Desirable** + Postgraduate degree in corporate, administrative or tax law. **We offer stellar benefits!** **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. **Diversity statement:** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. _If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application._ **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Guadalajara **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-05-05 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. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. 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