Legal Counsel International Business Law - EMEA Area (W/M)

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With 40,000 team members located in 25 countries and with a 2023 revenue of €11,4 billion, OPmobility is world leader in exterior body parts, modules, lighting solution, and powertrain systems.

Our ambition? Provide our customers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected vehicles.

The Legal Counsel is a junior-level counsel and reports directly to a Group Legal Director in the Group Legal Operations Team of OPmobility.

Under the supervision of the Legal Director, the Legal Counsel:

• Assist Sales, Purchasing, R&D/R&I, in the drafting, revising, and negotiating contracts with automotive/truck/train/bus customers, suppliers (raw material, components, tooling, services, logistic, capex) & partners (consortium, partnership…)
• Contributes to the overview of any legal operational issues arising in all sites of the OPmobility’s Business Group concerned
• Assist in a way that OPmobility operates within the law at all times
• Facilitate business strategies development by providing options and clarity under the law
• Limit legal and contractual risk exposure

MISSIONS

Under the supervision of the Group Legal Director, the main missions are:

•  Address in French and English legal and contractual risks within the EMEA Business Units of OPmobility’s Business Groups covering all the traditional areas of the function of a Legal Counsel:
  • Contracts in French & English (Sales), Partnerships, Supply (Production Component and Raw Material suppliers, Specific Tooling and Capacity-tooling suppliers, non-production goods and services suppliers, etc.) ;
  • Advise and recommendation on matters related to Product liability - Competition Law - Intellectual Property - Litigation & Dispute Resolution - Bankruptcy Laws

• Position yourself as a Business Partner among the Business Groups in order to contribute to the strategic objectives and decisions, by providing high-quality, proactive, business-oriented legal support

•  Assist proactively in the implementation of the legal documentation, in monitoring internal policies and in the development of legal awareness within the OPmobility’s Business Groups
  • Review and draft standard documents, templates & internal policies in French and English
  • Define and conduct training in French and English in order to implement internal policies and develop legal awareness in the OPmobility’s Business Groups;
  • Develop and continuously improve knowledge and expertise in key areas of law that are central to the achievement OPmobility’s strategy.

•    Team spirit and project management:
  • Interact constantly as a team player with the reporting Group Legal Director and the Legal Operations Team to be fully aligned with the OPmobility’s Business Groups and the Group Legal Department strategy.
  • Visit the plants and local offices of the OPmobility’s Business Groups in the EMEA region in order to ensure strong connection with the legal function
  • Analyze the tools at the disposal of the business stakeholders and propose updates, improvements and new tools (templates, memos, trainings…)

PROFILE

• • Master’s degree in law. French legal education, additional foreign education is a plus.
  • 1-3 years of experience in a law firm or in the legal department of an international company of the industrial sector in legal operations matters.
  • Experience in France. Experience abroad would be a plus.
  • Fluency in both English and French, verbally & in writing. Knowledge of an additional language would be a plus.
  • Highly organized self-starter with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment to balance multiple priorities and possess high accountability to deadlines and results
  • Understanding and exposure to a multi-cultural working environment
  • High integrity & ethical values
  • Excellent communication skills, able to synthesize complexity and communicate concisely
  • Acquisition of “Business” and strategic mindset and negotiator

As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.