Legal Counsel with German
Date: Jan 20, 2025
Location: Krakow, PL
Company: OP Mobility
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.
The role of Legal Counsel is based in our Lighting business group in Krakow, Poland.

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,
• Around 5 years of experience in a law firm or in the legal department of an international company of the industrial sector in drafting, reviewing or validating contracts (preferrable purchasing, sales, non-IT contracts)
• German experience/background/language - a must;
• Willingness to commute to the office in Cracow 3 days per week
• Fluency in English, verbally and in writing,
• 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.

The Legal Counsel is a middle-level counsel and reports directly and solely to the Opmobility Lighting & Modules Business Legal Manager in the Group Legal Operations Team of OPmobility. Under the supervision of the OPmobility Lighting & Modules Business Legal Manager, the Legal Counsel:

• Assist Sales, Purchasing, R&D/R&I, in the drafting, revising, and negotiating contracts with automotive customers mainly, suppliers (raw material, components, tooling, services, logistic, capex) and partners (consortium, partnership…)
• Contribute to the overview of any legal operational issues arising in all sites of the OPmobility 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