Legal Counsel

at  OPmobility

Legal Counsel
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Date: Apr 5, 2024
Location: Krakow, PL
Company: Plastic Omnium
Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!
OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €9.5 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 150 plants and 43 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,500 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.
OPmobility’s Lighting business group covers the entire lighting value chain, from components to complete headlamps, from traditional lighting to intelligent and high-performance products. The business group develops interior and exterior solutions that enable greater design freedom, enhanced safety and driver assistance.
Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Education Level: Master’s Degree in law (commercial, contract, international) from a reputed law university ideally completed by a LL.M or a business school diploma.
• Experience:
• Around 5 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 abroad, particularly in Germany, is a real plus.
• Skills and Competencies:
• Fluency in English, verbally and in writing.
• Mastering of German language is a real Plus; knowledge of French is best appreciated
• Other languages from a location of OPmobility considered (Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Turkish, Arabic)
• Understanding and exposure to a multi-cultural working environment
• Organized, team spirit, high integrity and ethical values, excellent communication skills
• Acquisition of “Business” and strategic mindset and negotiator.
• Ability to work at a distance with its reporting line in full transparency and constant communication
• Ability to interact with the other members of the Teams in a dynamic and cooperative way
• Both autonomy and sense of accountability within the legal organization.
  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.
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Under the supervision of the OPmobility Lighting & Modules Business Legal Manager, the main missions are:

• Address in English legal and contractual risks within the EMEA scope of the OPmobility business group as well as any global issues handled with the Business Legal Manager, covering all the traditional areas of the function of a Legal Counsel:
• Contracts in 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 Division 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 business group:
• Review and draft standard documents, templates & internal policies in English
• Define and conduct training in English in order to implement internal policies and develop legal awareness in the OPmobility business group;
• 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 Business Legal Manager and the Legal Operations Team to be fully aligned with the OPmobility business group and the Group Legal Department strategy.
• Visit the plants and local offices of the OPmobility business groups in the EMEA region in order to ensure strong connection with the legal function.
• Analyse the tools at the disposal of the business stakeholders and propose updates, improvements and new tools (templates, memos, trainings…).