Company Secretary

5 months ago


Ashford, United Kingdom Givaudan Full time

Step into our world of creativity and joy

Company Secretary & Legal Administrator
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.**Company Secretary & Legal Administrator**:

- Your future position?**
- An exciting opportunity has arisen working alongside our UK Finance and Global Legal Affairs teams to support the Directors in ensuring that our UK entities operate within all financial, legal and statutory regulations. As a member of the UK Management and Compliance Committees you will promote legal and ethical compliance across our UK sites. You will be reporting to the UK Finance Manager.**In this role your main responsibilities will include**:

- Maintaining and updating statutory registers, corporate records, licenses, insurances and other legal documentation, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Coordinating the insurance renewal process for UK Companies.
- Coordinating liability claims, providing legal administration support for claims and site Environmental, Health and Safety matters.
- Liaising with external lawyers on relevant legal and compliance matters.
- Supporting managers in reviewing UK agreements and contracts, liaising with external lawyers as required.
- Regular and effective reporting of legal spend and legal and contingent liabilities to the relevant stakeholders.
- Act as data protection coordinator for the UK, liaising with the Regional and Global Data Protection teams to support the UK Company Manager in ensuring ongoing compliance with data protection regulations and Company policies.

**Your professional profile includes**:

- Degree in law or equivalent experience in legal or company secretary activities is essential.
- Experience working in a commercial environment with a variety of Stakeholders at all levels is desirable.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail, organisational and administration skills.
- IT proficiency in Microsoft packages and using company and online databases.
- Ability to handle confidential information discreetly

**Our Benefits**:

- Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
- Bonus Payment
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Employee Discount Club
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- #LI-Hybrid- At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
- You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
- Every essence of you enriches our world.
- Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
- Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.


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