Legal Counsel, UK, France & Belgium

As a Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for:

• Demonstrating and actively promoting a high level of integrity and ethical conduct throughout the organisation
• Reviewing, advising and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, service level agreements, consultancy agreements, outsourcing and a variety of business supply agreements across the full range of Belgian business models and supports across the rest of the region
• Supporting the Belgian management team and rest of Europe region on a wide range of legal and compliance issues
• Identifying and advising on the legal risks and considerations relating to implementation of business programmes and initiatives. Finding practical, pragmatic and commercially focused mitigations and solutions
• Providing support for regional and global projects
• Providing robust advice relating to data protection, privacy and cyber security issues
• Working with the broader legal team with the creation and maintenance of user-friendly precedent contracts with clear negotiation parameters and contract playbooks.
• Facilitating improved processes and ways of working and supporting the innovative use of technology to simplify and improve the provision of legal services.
• Providing training on legal and compliance matters
• Raising awareness around key legal and commercial risks and supporting the implementation and embedding of global legal and compliance policies and sustainability goals
• Managing external counsel and the associated budget and deliverables in respect of specialist issues and disputes
• Managing disputes/ litigation and their settlement in line with agreed budgets
• Taking on any other duties within your skills and abilities, wherever reasonably instructed
• Supporting the wider legal team, including in different jurisdictions, wherever appropriate

• Experience of management and negotiation of complex commercial legal matters
• Demonstrate a commercial mindset and relationship management skills to build relationships with key stakeholders at multiple levels across SThree
• Excellent IT skills, particularly in relation to the use of Sharepoint, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and ideally an enthusiastic early adopter of new Technology generally
• Work independently within functional policy and against the confines of legal practice
• Use judgement and experience on matters not seen before and consult with the General Counsel UK, France & Belgium on matters with a potentially high impact
• Highly collaborative and positive mindset
• Demonstrate a genuine desire to add broad value to the function and to make changes which will have a positive impact on the legal function and company as a whole
• Commitment to promoting a positive culture of legal compliance and ethics
• Demonstrate a personal growth mindset, openness to change and an exploration of new ways of working and role models the behavior to be a catalyst and champion for these changes

• A varied job where you can create value and have impact
• Working in a challenging international environment and innovative sector
• A competitive gross monthly salary, topped with fringe benefits such as a company car, insurances, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, a variable bonus,…
• The option to work from home up to three days a week