- Location
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Legal
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description :
Senior Legal Manager
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function
Legal at Diageo is about more than managing risk, it’s about helping the business move forward in the right way.
Working across a global portfolio of brands, this team navigates complex legal and regulatory landscapes, from intellectual property and compliance to corporate activity and commercial partnerships. They work closely with teams across the business, offering clear, pragmatic advice that supports confident decision-making.
It’s a fast-moving, ever-evolving environment where no two challenges are the same. You’ll need sound judgement, curiosity and the ability to see the bigger picture, balancing risk with opportunity in a way that protects our business while enabling it to grow.
You’ll be part of a global community of lawyers who are not only experts in their field, but trusted partners to the business, shaping outcomes, influencing decisions and helping bring our brands to life responsibly.
Role Responsibilities
The successful candidate will need to bring Diageo leadership standards and purpose to life and actively promote initiatives internally to other employees and markets.
Be an effective and pragmatic legal and business advisor to the Indonesian management team by understanding the business closely and building great relationships with key stakeholders in both the Diageo business and third party relationships.
Minimize legal risk by early involvement in key projects, guiding resolution of issues and proactively creating an environment where risk is avoided.
Proactively lead the compliance agenda including providing training on key policies and maintain a rock-solid environment of controls and compliance .
Support the teams on key projects and strategic initiatives.
Experience / skills required
A minimum of 5+ year experienced lawyer, with prior experience at a leading law firm or relevant in-house experience.
Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills, easily interacting with others and being approachable.
Ability to work confidently and stand ground with senior managers.
Experience in handling compliance challenged markets.
Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, commercial / pragmatic approach and strong influencing / coaching skills.
Strong commercial law background, especially in the negotiation and documentation of commercial contracts.
Ability to work within the commercial environment and to identify business critical issues and prioritize workload to align with business needs.
Fluency in English and Indonesian Language.
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Recruitment Scam Warning
Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.
Worker Type :
RegularPrimary Location:
JakartaAdditional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-06-02
