Job Description

Requisition ID: 36164
Brands to love, Careers to last.
Why You Should Join Us
At Molson Coors, we've been bringing people together over a cold beer for more than 200 years. Our award-winning portfolio includes beloved brands such as Coors, Carling, Madri Excepcional and Blue Moon, our diverse range also features popular brands like Aspall, Rekorderlig, Staropramen, Doom Bar. As a global leader in the beverage industry, we are deeply committed to promoting responsible drinking and driving sustainability.
With a presence in over 100 countries and a team of 16,000 employees, we are dedicated to fostering a sustainable future for our communities and championing responsible drinking worldwide.
Joining us means becoming part of a company that values tradition while innovating to meet the evolving tastes of our consumers. We believe in celebrating all of life's moments together and making a positive impact in the world.
As a People First organisation, we're happy to discuss flexible working options.
Your Purpose
We're currently recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel to join us on a fixed-term contract for approximately 7 months. As Senior Legal Counsel, you will lead legal support for your business units within the UK&I region, providing strategic legal advice to enable business success while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks. You will play a key role in safeguarding Molson Coors' interests, driving operational excellence across the Legal & Government Affairs team, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead legal strategy and support for designated UK&I business units, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and aligning legal input with commercial objectives.
• Draft, negotiate, and oversee complex commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, M&A transactions, disposals, and high-value projects, ensuring legal risk is effectively managed.
• Drive legal compliance and governance frameworks, ensuring robust internal controls, regulatory reporting, and alignment with global standards across ethics, sustainability, and risk.
• Manage and develop a high-performing legal team, providing coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to build capability and support career growth.
• Represent the company in high-stakes legal matters, including litigation, disputes, and regulatory investigations, while maintaining strong relationships with external authorities and stakeholders.
• Oversee external counsel engagement, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency, and alignment with business priorities across all outsourced legal services.
• Lead legal operations and continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimisation, template development, and adoption of legal technology and AI tools.
• Act as a key contributor to crisis and risk management, serving on the Crisis Management Team when required and supporting enterprise risk mitigation strategies.

About You

• Qualified Solicitor with significant post-qualification experience, holding a current UK practising certificate.
• Previous experience in an in-house senior legal role, skilled in managing and developing legal professionals within a high-performing team.
• Highly skilled in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts, with a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives across diverse functions and high-value projects.
• Excellent communicator, with the ability to partner with senior stakeholders, influence and simplify complex legal concepts.
• Commercially astute with a strategic mindset, experienced in managing external counsel and legal budgets.
• Skilled at identifying legal risks, executing mitigation strategies, and upholding ethical standards, while ensuring alignment with business objectives.

You may not meet all the criteria for the role, but don't let that stop you from applying. We all need to learn and develop and we can help you do this here at Molson Coors.
About Us

• We're one of the UK's Most Attractive Employers winning the Top Employer award for the last 12 years.
• Equal Parent Leave - as much or as little as you wish of 52 weeks parent leave, with 26 weeks at full pay irrespective of gender or path to parenthood.
• Flexible work programmes to ensure a work life balance is maintained such as our market leading Moments That Matter for significant moments in your life.
• Commitment to the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people reflective of our People First value.
• We're committed to raising industry standards and leaving a positive imprint on our employees, consumers, communities and the environment which is reflected in Our Beer Print and our 2025 sustainability targets.

Molson Coors Beverage Company: Building Careers
Molson Coors Beverage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we seek, value and respect everyone's unique perspectives and experiences knowing that we are stronger together.
Our aim to build a skilled and highly engaged workforce that unites around our shared values and reflects our diverse marketplace; and foster a workplace where all employees' unique talents, skills and perspectives are valued and leveraged - where all people feel that we are #BetterWithYou. This makes our talent strategy simple - we want the best talent in all our roles, regardless of their background.
We are Disability Confident Committed. If you require any additional assistance or adjustments in advance of, or during the application and/or hiring process, please contact us at careers@molsoncoors.com.
We want you to succeed and will be happy to support you.

Skills Required