Paralegal

Assist and support the European Legal Team in advising the business on a wide variety of commercial, litigation, corporate, property and compliance matters and supporting the Company Secretary in meeting company secretarial duties for various entities.,

• Report to the General Counsel - Europe or Senior Legal Advisor.


• Assist the business with a broad range of commercial and ad hoc matters undertaken by the European legal department.


• Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial and other general agreements with the business' customers and vendors.


• Supporting the General Counsel with litigation matters and corporate .


• Assist in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements of the business and assist in creating, maintaining, and updating policies and procedures and legal department precedents.


• Assist the Company Secretary in meeting company secretarial duties.


• Liaise with internal teams such as Sales, Global Sugar Team, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain and Marketing.


• Encouraged to get involved in supporting the business' cultural, social and/or sports committees.
  
  Ability to help legal team interact with internal stakeholders as well as external customers and vendors to arrive at practical and legal solutions to business issues.


• Ability to support the General Counsel - Europe and the European Legal department.


• Sound commercial awareness and the ability to assess risk and give pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice.


• A positive, diligent, and thorough approach to your work.


• Ability to manage a varied workload and provide a prompt and efficient service., Good interpersonal skills and a team player.


• Strong communication skills, both written and oral, attention to detail, and excellent legal research and analysis skills, with demonstrable ability to apply these skills to produce pragmatic solutions.


• Good understanding of contract and commercial law preferred.


• Good problem-solving skills.


• Organised, enthusiastic and self-motivated.


• Willing to take on responsibility and keen to learn & develop.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• A high-quality graduate with legal training.

WORK EXPERIENCES

• Ideally exposure to a range of commercial legal work.


• Ideally In-house experience or law firm experience.


• Ideally passed or undertaking SQE1 and SQE2 examinations (or equivalents).

At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company.
Service Excellence- Be the industry's Gold Standard by a relentless focus on reliability, providing products with superior quality and excellent customer services. Efficiency and Sustainability- Eliminate inefficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment. Value-Add: create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services. The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retain and motivate a winning team.

ASR Group is the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal. ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize. The company's brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's® and Sidul®.