Commercial Lawyer

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, production support, MRO and quality services. With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world. We offer sector-specific expertise and best practice across consultancy and business agility, product design, production and in-service support, as well as continuous quality to the industry’s major OEMs and suppliers to provide expertise across the entire lifecycle.

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As part of the Global Legal team, you are contributing in partnering with, guiding and counselling the business operations within Group’s Global Legal Center, by providing excellent quality legal transactional support on small to large Clients and Vendors contracts in various jurisdictions, as may be required, ensuring that legal risk is minimized and Expleo assets protected. You are providing pro-active, professional, competent, (cost) effective and creative legal support.

You are involved on all phases of deals, ranging from the proposal/bid review stages to execution. You draft and negotiate a wide range of contracts, IT and Engineering related, including professional services, nondisclosure, but also other commercial and technology related agreements.

You detect/collect the needs of the business, build solutions and actively contribute to the Global Legal initiatives and Group Legal Strategy in formulating new templates, checklists to meet the business requirements, streamlining the contract management process, fostering best practices and developing legal awareness (legal training to business and delivery). You develop and manage good working relationships with all business partners and stakeholders.

You ensure effective Group Legal Strategy implementation and contribute in various legal projects which may occur within the Group. You provide added value legal advice, continuous improvement of standard terms, conditions, policies, processes, and systems within the legal function.

You are responsible for the prompt resolution of requests that fall within the duties of the position from company’s employees and partners and you also need to stay updated with changes in business and legislative changes and advise the company on these changes

You resolve requests of a legal nature in different areas of law and draft documents and materials of a legal nature, draft and approves legal documents, check the legality of legal and administrative documents received for approval.

You directly report to the Global Legal Center Head in Romania.

• Graduation or post-graduation in Business Law and successful experience in international commercial legal matters of minimum 3-5 years in Mid/Large Size IT or Engineering services companies having a global footprint
• Strong experience in international contract negotiation on a wide range of contracts and in advising on various aspects of law (common law contracts and civil law)
• Excellent commercial and business awareness, with a strong professional ethic, and the energy, interest and training to pursue a wide array of matters. 
• Strong record on dealing with commercial, compliance, insurance, real estate, risk management matters.
• Other main qualities: diplomat with a strong set of interpersonal skills; excellent negotiation skills; excellent writing skills; perfect command of business legal English and French both orally and in writing; excellent skills in mastering office tools; able to work in a fast-paced and very challenging environment.
• Strong focus on Legal Operations (legal design, KPIs…)
• Legal skills combined with an ability to take strategic view on the challenges and issues facing the business.
• Hands-on and ability to work with multi-disciplinary team. True team-player able to manage different stakeholders. Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set.
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy, together with ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure. Have a sense of priorities, autonomous.
• Solution-focused, business orientation. Pragmatic and pro-active. Agile player and learner who navigates in matrix organization.

• Join and work in an international team of lawyers.
• Contribute in various legal projects which occur within the Group, provide added-value legal advice, continuous improvement of internal policies, processes and systems within the legal function, develop and manage good working relationships with all business partners in the Group.
• A challenging job in a great and multi-disciplinary team within an innovative and motivating work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and new added-value ideas.
• Room for personal and professional growth within our GLOCAL (global and local) organization.
• Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 30 different countries around the globe.
• A comfortable workspace in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance.