Legal Counsel (m/w/d) - befristet für 18 Monate

What we offer:

Career Development

We are here to support you for the entirety of your Dematic career. From a fast start of learning Dematic’s history and foundational training to succeed in your role to leadership development programs, technical training and certifications, and Career Navigator to identify challenging new opportunities, our goal is to help you grow beyond your borders.

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Our attractive and market competitive total rewards packages are designed to reward high performance and to assist in managing your personal and family needs. Dematic offers robust packages based on employment status and national requirements.

Pay Transparency

Dematic is committed to pay transparency. As such, Dematic will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, Dematic will still maintain confidentiality of your pay information. Employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by Dematic, or (c) consistent with Dematic’s legal duty to furnish information.

Global Opportunities

As a global company, our employees are exposed to different ideas and perspectives from around the world. We offer international assignments for qualified employees and wherever possible, we offer flexible working hours and modern workspace design.

Tasks and Qualifications:

Main tasks:

• Reporting to the Regional Legal Counsel Europe (EMEA) you outline the structure of sales, project, product, and service contracts and general conditions.
• You sensitize and support the sales, purchase and implementation relating to legal matters in order to come to clear agreements with third parties.
• You assist Sales and/or Purchasing department with negotiating of contracts and be responsible for drafting of commercial contracts with customers, suppliers, distribution contracts, license agreements.
• You support R&D in managing and optimally use Dematic's intellectual property and liaise with global responsibilities.
• You advise on licensing and patents and liaise with outside counsel.
• You protect intellectual property to third parties through confidentiality agreements, determine violations, etc.
• Conciliation, arbitration and Litigation: where there is threatening juridical danger, you help deciding the strategy in order to avoid danger, report to global function and liaise with outside counsel.
• You support special files (government relations, real estate transactions transfer of ownership, acquisition merge files, …) in order to bring this to a successful end.
• You select and maintain contacts with external legal experts in order to build a good network.
• You liaise with group internal function and outside services to manage industrial risks and insurance.
• You keep yourself continuously informed of evolutions within the field, you keep your knowledge up-to-date in terms of new developments.

Your qualifications:

• Law degree (Master level) with 3 - 5 years' experience as a legal counsel in an international corporate legal department or as attorney in an international law firm.
• In either or both cases such experience was in Europe and involved a variety of corporate, commercial, transactional and competition work. Drafting and negotiating of international / cross-border agreements is a key competence.
• Confidence to act autonomously and take responsibility for counselling, negotiating and resolving legal matters.
• Self-starter and team player who is able to work independently.
• Excellent language skills (fluent English and German is a must).
• Good command of French and Dutch is a plus.
• Sense of ownership and drive: problem solver who shows a bias for action, acts promptly to remove "roadblocks" and ensures accountability to get things done in a timely manner.
• Excellent networking skills, successful relationship builder; able to deal at all levels in the organization.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent ability to work under pressure.