Junior Legal Counsel (m/v)

You join the legal department, at group level, working closely with the legal team members and reporting to the general counsel.  The legal team consists of the general counsel and a legal counsel.  As NHV is growing, NHV is looking for a legal counsel to strengthen its legal team.

Each legal team member is responsible for his/her projects,  adequately supports the business strategy of the Group, assist in corporate transactions and is responsible for maintaining a corporate social responsibility culture within the Group.

You will be in contact with other group functions (in particular finance, HR, tax, project management office, base managers) delivering legal advice, information, documentation and analysis on your international contract projects.

You have strong experience in international contracts:

• • Responsible for your international supplier contracts: analyzing, reviewing, drafting, reading, negotiating, discussing contracts with suppliers (e.g. manufacturers, lessors, etc)
  • Serve as the legal primary point of contact for your contract projects.
  • Serve as liaison between Legal Department, the business, outside lawyers and external clients and/or partners  on contract matters
  • Advise management on contract requirements and procedures and identified risks.

You are interested in corporate law and private tenders. Experience is a plus (not a must):

• Corporate law:
  • Prepare & monitor legal documentation to formalize intragroup structures (e.g. lease agreement, service agreements, financing agreements and hire out agreements)
  • Map and follow up on local legal formalities
  • Render opinions and prepare legal drafts, opinions and various documents related to corporate & financing transactions
  • Advise and assist group and local corporate bodies on corporate matters and regulations
  • Ensure that the corporate housekeeping of entities are accurate, complete and up-to-date
• Private tenders

Other responsibilities & main result areas of each legal team member:

Each legal team member is responsible for his/her projects,  adequately supports the business strategy of the Group, assist in corporate transactions and is responsible for maintaining a corporate social responsibility culture within the Group.

• Corporate social responsibility:
  • monitor adequate corporate governance structure on group and subsidiary level
  • Actively educate organization on corporate social responsibility / corporate compliance
• Litigation:
  • Follow up on pending claims and litigations and liaise with outside counsels
• General advice on legal matters:
  • Provide legal advice, guidance, information and analysis to internal clients
  • Prepare and review legal documents and examine documents for legal sufficiency
  • Prepare drafts, documents, letters
  • Perform specific legal researches to support the general counsel
  • Contribute to risk mitigation initiatives
  • Provide legal advice and perform legal research for internal stakeholders pertaining to contractual and other issues that arise in and affect the business.
  • Provide general legal analysis and make recommendations for best course of action under the given circumstances.   
• Legal administration:
  • Follow up on outside counsel expenses and manage external expenses in accordance with legal budget