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Salary:
Date Added: 13/01/2024
Legal Counsel
Headquartered in Cham, Switzerland since 1957, Selecta Group is a Foodtech company with a leading route based, self-service distribution network in Europe, offering innovative convenience food services and world-class quality coffee brands in the workplace and public spaces. Active in the foodtech business we continuously push on new innovations and solutions, we serve premium coffee and beverages, snacks, and fresh meals to more than 10 million people in 16 countries across Europe every day. With an annual turnover of €1.2 billion, we owe our success to our ca. 7,000 highly skilled, dedicated, and passionate Selecta employees who are committed to creating millions of moments of joy for our clients and their consumers every day. Sustainability is an integral part of the way we do business, focused on the key areas in which we can make a positive difference.
Place of work
Cham (ZG)
Starting date
Main duties
As Legal Counsel, you will support the local teams across Europe with their legal and compliance matters, with a strong focus on commercial contracts and litigation.
Main tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Partner with cross-functional legal and business teams including Real Estate, Procurement (direct/indirect), Regulatory affairs, CSR, HR and corporate matters.
- Provide clear, practical advice to senior business leaders and legal department members on a variety of legal matters.
- Reviewing and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts.
- Developing and delivering legal training to associates.
- Manage and liaise with external counsel on all litigation (including HR and civil).
- Shared support for Human Resources on employment law-related issues.
- Ensuring compliance with corporate guidelines
Requirements:
- Generally speaking, you have proven experience with dynamic, international businesses and are highly motivated to be a hands-on counsel in terms of practice and matter handling, take responsibility and make a difference for the Legal Team and the Selecta Group.
- You have a lot of experience in negotiating and drafting sales and procurement contracts.
- You know Corporate Law and can handle matters in relation to corporate governance of the group and corporate housekeeping.
- You assist Human Resources in employment related matters in your region and the Group Human Resources function.
- You are familiar with privacy regulations and understand how to implement and maintain compliance to GDPR.
- You research and implement changes based on new legal requirements.
- Supporting supply chain and procurement activities and related contracting and global centralised Procurement
- Supports development of policies and procedures that drive corporate governance
- You are used to managing the selection of and the daily relationship with external counsels in a cost-effective manner.
- You have an excellent command of French and are fluent in English. Other European languages (especially German) are a plus.
Professional competence
You are a French qualified attorney with at last 6 years’ experience gained as in-house counsel in an international organization or in a law firm.
Profile
Specialities
At Selecta, we are committed to equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion, embracing our differences to achieve our common goal. We are united in our principle of making people feel great and we are grounded by our purpose to create more moments of joy for everyone through our ways of working.
Please send your complete application (incl. CV, Motivation Letter, Diploma, Reference Letters).
Application
Have we gained your interest?
We are looking forward to your application.
We kindly ask you to apply on the Selecta career portal. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications by email or post.
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Application Deadline: 24/02/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0