Purchasing Legal Counsel

Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Purpose

We are looking for a motivated Purchasing and R&D Legal Counsel to support IDEMIA business segments of the IDEMIA Smart Identity (ISI) Division. You will develop a strong role as a business partner within the Division’s key players (notably Purchasing Manager, Sales Manager, Bid Manager, Finance, Program Manager,…).

The position will be based at IDEMIA's headquarters in Paris-La Défense, France.

Your mission will be to provide qualified legal and contractual support to the ISI business, and thereby contribute to achieving ISI targets and business growth, profitability and risk control, to protect investment in technology, know-how and marketing, to ensure handling of information of ISI and others with the proper degree of care, and to support the ISI team in securing compliance in operations with relevant local and international regulations in the field of data privacy, ethics and compliance or antitrust.

Working in an international environment, you will have a broad range of responsibilities, including:

1. Procurement: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of procurement contracts, including non-disclosure agreements, supply agreements, subcontract agreements, manufacturing agreements, real estate, IT, consulting agreements; license, evaluation, undertaking agreements (LoI, MoU, term sheets, framework and individual agreements, master agreements, change requests, amendments, settlement etc.); providing effective, business-oriented day-to-day legal advice to all Procurement functions on a broad range of business law matters, securing proper approval on legal issues as well as critical financial, technical and business terms in contracts; handling contacts with external lawyers, coordinating and following up litigations together with external law firms, as required.
2. R&D: Working closely with the business teams to draft and negotiate agreements including Service Agreements, Research Collaboration Agreements, Consortium Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, software and data license agreements and other research-related contracts.
3. General: Assuring conformity and consistency in application of ISI governance and policies; maintaining and updating contract templates and other commonly requested legal forms.

Profile & Other Information

You have a strong background in commercial law and contracts.

You have experience and interest in other areas of law such as R&D and other collaborative agreements, grant agreements, IP and trademark issues, and data privacy and protection and be prepared to cover those areas as and when required.

You have excellent oral and writing skills in English. Solid knowledge of another language (Arabic for instance) is a plus.

Curious and rigorous, you know how to resolve legal issues on technical subjects.

Education: Master’s degree in business law / contracts law, ideally supplemented by a specialization in new technology law and / or experiences made abroad.

Experience: 5 years of legal and contractual experience obtained in a legal department of an international group or an international law firm, ideally linked to new technologies, data protection and / or major international industrial projects, with broad experience in public procurement.

Additional information: Occasional travel for contract negotiations.