Senior Manager - Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Act as a “Strategic Business Partner” and “Advisor” to the organization in all relevant Legal & Compliance issues. Support the Senior Director - Legal Counsel and team ensuring that they are providing the best Legal & Compliance advice, solutions and challenges to enable strategic initiatives and protect and enhance the company’s assets. Support in ensuring the team is an effective extension of Global Legal to ensure a consistent and high standard of all Global Legal standards and principles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the provision of legal services and compliance requirements for the Area.
• Where appropriate, drive the management, negotiation, and resolution of legal and business disputes for client groups in the Area to enable fact-based decision making.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of contracts to protect the interests of adidas while working closely with appropriate business stakeholders.
• Co-drive an ethics and compliance culture and ensure all related matters are appropriately handled including all aspects of communication, education, and implementation of the Compliance program within the Cluster.
• Effectively manage and supervise the delivery of legal advice and services through external counsel where needed.
• Develop and conduct educational programs and materials for clients in the Cluster as appropriate in relevant legal areas.
• Actively participate in the team environment through mutual support and pursuit of excellence.

Key Relationships:

• Senior Director - Legal Counsel
• Senior Management Team and other senior members of the Area
• All Global Legal functions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strategic thinker with confidence and speed in execution.
• Strong background in contract law, drafting, negotiation, and business counselling.
• A strong sense and experience of legal business management and administration with an ability to make practical evaluations of risk.
• Ability to work both independently and as a senior part of a team, and to manage and prioritize substantial and diverse workload.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex issues in an understandable manner.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required. Must be fluent in English and German (both written and spoken).
• Very good PC skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office including PowerPoint.
• Enthusiastic and represents the company's value of integrity.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Fully qualified lawyer (2 state exams), with local legal professional admission in good standing.
• 5-8+ years of law firm or corporate counsel experience in general civil and commercial law.

Preferably experience with multinational companies with multi-market teams.

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES, OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need.
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

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