At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.
Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.
While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas.
At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.
Position Overview
Legal Service Specialist supports the Legal department in delivering quality service and complying with applicable legal and ethical standards. The role will work across McCormick and assist on (i) managing inbound legal queries; and (ii) managing legal entity compliance in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, including the tracking/updating of new officer and director appointments for each McCormick legal entity.
Key Responsibilities
Legal Matter Intake: Single point of contact for receiving legal queries, including managing central inbox and triaging through adherence of allocation principles. This involves communicating with the business through appropriate channels to provide information, share knowledge, and keep colleagues informed of progress.
Company Secretarial Governance: Supporting the Corporate Secretary function globally to deliver first class governance and Company Secretary support, ensuring compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements and that all board procedures and guidelines are followed.
Company Secretarial support: Review new officer or director appointments ensuring all appointments are captured and updated in relevant systems.
Conduit: Act as a link between the business unit and legal team to obtain additional information, chase up progress, send reminders across Legal Matter Intake and Company Secretarial.
Storage: Responsible for storing queries and standard answers to common queries in a centralized database. Key function in updating, evolving and storing of playbooks.
Metrics: Responsible for collecting data, analyzing data and building insightful reports with commentary on trends.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor's and Law Degrees in related discipline with 1-3 years of expereince. Ability to provide consistent high levels of customer service;
Excellent communication, interpersonal / influence skills and organizational ability;
Ability to review, sense check inputs / data;
Strong knowledge of applications such as excel, spreadsheets, SharePoint; Familiar with legal technology (e.g., legal matter intake, entity management, CLM, etc.)
McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.