Senior Legal Counsel

Job Identification:

The Senior Legal Counsel will support and lead legal processes of CCI’s operations in 11 countries, while also providing strategic legal support to CCI’s Treasury and Finance teams in banking and financing transactions. The role acts as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring legal, regulatory, and governance excellence.

What We Expect:

• Advise Country Leadership Team, country Legal Teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders on a broad range of legal matters.
• Provide pragmatic, business‑oriented legal solutions while effectively managing legal risks and costs.
• Ensure proper conduct of Board of Directors and General Assembly meetings, corporate reporting, and public disclosures in compliance with Capital Markets Board (CMB) regulations and other applicable legislation.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with company policies, procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Lead and support mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence processes, SPAs, SHAs, and post‑transaction integration matters.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of agreements, including procurement, sales, construction, and loan/financing agreements.
• Manage relationships with external stakeholders, including regulatory authorities, external counsel, shareholders, and government bodies.
• Liaise with The Coca-Cola Company’s Division‑level legal teams and Trademark Counsel on brand‑related and cross‑border legal matters.
• Design and deliver legal trainings to business teams as required to enhance legal awareness and compliance culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law with bar admission; Master degree is an asset
• Advanced proficiency in English, both written and spoken
• Minimum 7 years of post‑qualification experience, preferably from a reputable law firm and/or multinational company
• Strong background in corporate, M&A, finance, or commercial law
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a matrix organization
• Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable working under tight deadlines and managing multiple priorities
• Demonstrates the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and sound professional judgement.

 

What We Embrace: 

• “People Centered” Focus
• Equal Salary Advocate
• A Globally Diverse/An International Workplace
• Inclusive Team-Building Activities
• Digital Learning Opportunities
• Leadership Exposure With Organizational Events
• Inclusive Language And Culture
• Social Clubs/Networks
• Inclusive/Family-Friendly Policies

 

Who We Are
 

CCI is a multinational beverage company which operates in Türkiye, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Syria. CCI produces, distributes and sells sparkling and still beverages. CCI employs more than 10,000 people, has a total of 33 bottling plants, and 3 fruit processing plants in 12 countries, offering a wide range of beverages to a population base of 600 million people.

Our purpose at CCI is to create value for our employees, customers, consumers, and community. In line with our vision to become the best FMCG company, we put people at the core of everything we do. We achieve successful results with our people who come together as One Team, committing to live by our shared values of passion, integrity, accountability, and teamwork. Our ambition is to become a great place to work, which is inclusive, diverse, and inspiring, with its key organizational and leadership capabilities.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our commitment at CCI, that's why we nurture it in everything we do. We are proud to become the fourth company to obtain the EQUAL-SALARY global certification and proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, covering in all our countries.

We take responsibility for the future with our Sustainability Commitments for 2030.

Focusing our roadmap on six main areas, including packaging, water, and climate on environmental issues; human rights, diversity & inclusion, and community investments on social issues, we pledged 9 commitments to continuously improve our efforts. To ensure that by the year 2030, 35% of newly hired individuals, 40% of managerial positions, and 50% of executive committee members are comprised of women.

 

  We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, sex, color, national or      social origin, ethnicity, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, or political opinion.