Senior Corporate Legal Counsel_ Nestlé Waters and Premium Beverages
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Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages
Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux (close to Paris)
Contract: full-time - permanent contract
French and English fluent
As Senior Corporate Legal Counsel, you will provide strategic legal counsel to support NW&PB’s corporate governance, and corporate transactions. Protect the company’s interests by managing legal risks, supporting financing activities, and enabling the successful execution of corporate and business initiatives.
This role reports to the Head of General Counsel NWPB, based in Paris.
What are the responsibilities?
Manage corporate governance matters for French entities, including Board and Shareholders' meetings, corporate records, and legal entity management.
Provide legal advice on corporate law and governance
developments.
Support and execute corporate transactions, including restructurings, reorganizations, and M&A projects.
Ensure compliance with corporate, financial, and securities regulations.
Advise Treasury on financing, banking, cash management, and hedging activities.
Draft, review, and negotiate corporate and commercial agreements.
Manage relationships with external counsel, auditors and financial institutions authorities.
Partner with senior stakeholders and corporate functions to deliver pragmatic, business-focused legal solutions.
What will make you successful?
Strong expertise in corporate governance, entity management, M&A, restructuring, and regulatory compliance.
5–8 years of experience in corporate law, governance, and corporate transactions within a multinational company and/or law firm.
Master’s degree in law, Business Law, or Corporate Law.
Bar admission or equivalent legal qualification preferred.
Fluent English is required; French and additional languages are an advantage.
Strong business partnering and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and work across functions.
Strong drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills.
High integrity, attention to detail, agility, and resilience in complex environments.
Why join us?
• Opportunity to shape rewards strategy in a standalone global business.
• High visibility role with exposure to international environment and senior leadership.
• Strategic impact on compensation, job architecture and pay transparency.
What do we offer?
We believe that success is driven by people. That’s why we offer a well-rounded benefits package designed to support well-being, growth, and quality of life:
• Flexibility – hybrid work model
• Continuous learning – access to training
• Health & well-being – private health insurance and wellness initiatives
• Corporate welfare – flexible benefits platform
• Career growth – internal mobility and development opportunities
• Inclusive culture – collaborative and people-first environment.
About Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverage
Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages is a standalone, globally managed business within the Nestlé Group.
The company serves consumers in more than 100 markets with a portfolio of more than 35 brands, including S.Pellegrino, Perrier, Acqua Panna, Sanpellegrino Italian Sparkling Drinks, Maison Perrier, Buxton, Essentia, Levissima, La Vie and Nestlé Pure Life. Building on its heritage and expertise in waters, Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages is focused on growth in premium and better‑for‑your beverages, creating value for consumers, customers and stakeholders.
Water stewardship is central to the business. Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages is the only beverage company with all bottling sites certified to the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard. Additionally, the company has implemented around 70 water regeneration projects globally, as part of its ambition to protect and restore more water than it uses, working with local stakeholders and experts to identify shared water challenges and support solutions that build resilience and benefit communities and nature.
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category – offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
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