Your Tasks:
1. Providing high-quality legal advice on all legal issues mainly relating to our internationally active Business Unit Corn as well as to our expanding business area of nutritional food ingredients, in particular regarding licensing, distribution, service, supply, lease, purchase, confidentiality, marketing and other commercial agreements
2. Steering and coordinating civil and administrative litigation matters
3. Acts as a sparring partner to the business in identifying new business opportunities, structuring marketing models in a legally sound and pragmatic manner with appropriate consideration of the big picture
4. Legal support for mergers and acquisitions
5. Supporting the Expert Hub Legal in the development and implementation of standard contracts, templates, model clauses, legal document management, and know-how/license management with the help of Legal Tech, as well as in overarching corporate matters
6. Management and coordination of external legal advisors
Your Profile:
7. Fully qualified lawyer or comparable degree
8. Extensive experience in the field of commercial law in a globally acting industry environment
9. Broad knowledge in the field of law (national and international)
10. Ability to provide legally sound yet pragmatic legal advice
11. Certain degree of flexibility and mobility
12. Excellent customer orientation as well as entrepreneurial way of thinking and working
13. Excellent communication skills with different target groups and hierarchy levels
14. Team player with independent way of working and social competence
15. Fluent in English and German (written and spoken)
We offer:
16. An exceptionally interesting and diverse job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas
17. Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies
18. Targeted professional and personal development opportunities
19. Flexible working hours with the possibility of hybrid work
20. Flexible choice of location between our headquarters in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and our "KWS Kontor" in Berlin
21. As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence; this culture is lived out in practice, creating an open and friendly working atmosphere.
22. True to our motto “Make yourself grow!”, we support employees’ professional and personal development
23. We offer excellent work equipment and sufficient parking spaces at the KWS location
24. We create the appropriate conditions for you: an attractive salary including Christmas and holiday bonuses, capital-forming benefits, childcare allowance, job bike.
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