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Saint-Gobain Brasil

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1937

🏗️ Construction

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Manufacturing

Saint-Gobain Brasil é uma empresa que projeta, fabrica e distribui materiais e soluções voltadas para o bem-estar das pessoas e o futuro sustentável. Com 79 anos de atuação no Brasil, a empresa oferece um portfólio diversificado de marcas e seus produtos estão presente em diversas aplicações, incluindo edifícios, transportes e infraestruturas. A Saint-Gobain é reconhecida como líder em construção sustentável, buscando conforto, performance e segurança, enquanto também enfrenta desafios relacionados à eficiência no uso de recursos e mudanças climáticas.

📋 Description

• Act as the technical lead for judicial and administrative proceedings under your responsibility (Civil, Criminal, Environmental, Real Estate, Regulatory, Consumer and Customs), monitoring deadlines, strategies, case developments, compliance with SLAs and continuous updates to the legal management system. • Coordinate, supervise and audit external partner law firms, validating legal strategies, pleadings and submissions and ensuring technical quality standards and corporate deadlines are met. • Prepare complex legal opinions and analyses to resolve disputes and mitigate legal and reputational risks prior to litigation. • Provide ongoing legal advisory support to areas such as Industrial, EHS (Environmental, Health & Safety), Finance, Procurement, Marketing, Commercial, International Trade (COMEX), Real Estate, Customer Service (SAC) and HR. • Control and update legal contingencies and provisions in internal systems, ensuring accurate risk measurement for financial and corporate reporting. • Support Management in analyzing complex cases, gathering information, consolidating indicators (KPIs) and preparing reports/executive presentations for leadership. • Ensure full adherence of legal practices to internal compliance policies, corporate governance and applicable laws and jurisprudence. • Support the standardization of documents, optimization of internal workflows and provide legal training and guidance to corporate teams. • Attend internal and external meetings and conduct occasional technical visits to manufacturing/operational facilities to gain a deep understanding of the root causes of disputes and industrial processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Law degree with active registration with the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB). • Experience in managing, overseeing and developing strategies for corporate/strategic civil litigation in a corporate legal department or mid/large law firm. • Generalist profile: solid technical knowledge and hands‑on multidisciplinary experience across Civil, Criminal, Environmental, Real Estate, Regulatory, Consumer, Customs and other residual areas. • Proficiency in drafting and reviewing legal opinions, pre‑litigation/preventive analyses and contingency risk reports. • Experience managing, providing technical direction, monitoring SLAs and auditing outsourced law firms. • Familiarity with legal management systems for controlling contingencies, provisions and deadline tracking. • Availability for occasional technical/institutional travel to visit the company's industrial plants and manufacturing processes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model: 3 days in-office and 2 days remote