Legal and Corporate Affairs Director

A beer with friends…one of life's simple pleasures. There is a fantastic opportunity to take on a high profile and exciting role in the UK beer industry, heading up the legal and corporate affairs team and forming part of the Senior Leadership team of Molson Coors' UK and Ireland business.

A bit more about us: Molson Coors is the world's third largest brewer, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with operations spanning the globe and a portfolio of owned and partner brands, including signature brands Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Staropramen and Carling.

In the UK and Ireland, Molson Coors has close to 2,000 employees and breweries in Burton upon Trent, Tadcaster, Burtonwood, Sharp's brewery in Rock and Franciscan Well in Cork, Ireland. We have a portfolio that includes Carling, the UK's best-selling lager for three decades, Coors Light, Cobra, Grolsch, Miller, Doom Bar, Worthington's, Caffrey's, Singha and a range of speciality beers.

Hopefully you already love our range of beers, if you come and join us we can offer an opportunity that tastes as good as the beer we make. We truly believe that roles at this level, complexity and interest don't come about every day.

More about the role: You will be leading a talented team based in our Burton on Trent headquarters, and have responsibility for all aspects of legal and corporate affairs in Molson Coors' UK and Ireland business, including government relations, corporate responsibility, public relations, and employee relations, as well as a wide range of legal issues including commercial, corporate, regulatory and compliance. In this role you will be working closely with the UK and Ireland CEO and form part of his Senior Leadership team, where you will have a vital role in contributing to the success and strategic direction of the business.

Reporting into the European Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer, you will also be a member of the legal and corporate affairs leadership team of our European business unit and will have opportunity to influence and shape our legal and corporate affairs strategy at a European level.

It's the people who make Molson Coors who we are. We are looking for someone who will develop, inspire and motivate an excellent team of legal and corporate affairs professionals and have the leadership breadth and credibility to contribute fully as a member of the UK and Ireland leadership team

More about you: You will be working in-house with applicable legal and corporate affairs experience along with the leadership skills, gravitas and business experience to take on a role of this kind. You need to have a pragmatic and commercial approach and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels..

This is a high profile role to join Molson Coors as the business continues to grow. On offer is a market leading package, including car allowance, bonus, long term incentive plan, pension scheme and healthcare.

We are proud to be the 3rd largest brewer in the world, with generations of the Molson and Coors families still part of the business. If you are ready to become part of an extraordinary family of fantastic beer brands and amazing people, you know what to do next.

For further information please contact our exclusively retained consultant Victoria Moore at BCL Legal.

All direct and third party applications will be forwarded to BCL Legal for consideration.

If you're interested in this role, please apply now or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us. If this job isn't quite right, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. For a full list of jobs you can also visit the BCL job search page. BCL Legal is an equal opportunities employer.