Legal Counsel
Belgium
Do you get a kick out of drafting and negotiating agreements? Are you a strong legal negotiator? And do you have an analytical mindset?
If your answer is yes, you might be the Legal Counsel we’re looking for. Read on!
Your challenge
As a Legal Counsel, you draft and negotiate various agreements in an international context. Working closely with our other legal counsels, you provide proactive and practical legal support, advising our business units on risks, best practices, and contract issues.
You are responsible for:
- Analyzing, evaluating and negotiating agreements under Belgian and other law systems. These agreements include customer agreements (Software as a Service, license, maintenance and project implementation agreements), supplier agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
- Managing the contract process according to our internal contract policies and developing and implementing a solid contract management process.
- Advising on the implementation of new legislation (e.g. NIS2, Data Act, CSRD).
- Providing proactive and practical legal support to the company's business units on best practices and contract issues in line with the company’s strategy, with a focus on intellectual property rights, liability, confidentiality, data protection, and insurance.
- Designing legal processes and creating content (templates, guidelines, trainings, etc.) that improve our legal services and increase efficiency.
- Collaborating with the business unit managers, commercial team, and customers.
Your team
As our new Legal Counsel, you’ll be part of the Legal team. This team acts as a business partner for other OMP departments, ensuring that OMP’s growth is duly protected by concluding solid agreements and providing legal advice with a solution-oriented mindset.Your profile
We are looking for someone who meets the following qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Law.
- Passionate about commercial and legal negotiations and finding creative solutions.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills thanks to your fluency in English.
- Experience in a multi-national customer-driven environment.
- Excellent organizational skills that allow you to plan and prioritize.
- Good at translating the legal context into hands-on and pragmatic advice that is easy to understand for people without a legal background.
- Willingness to travel internationally, up to 20% of your time.
- An analytical mindset that pays attention to details. You can think out of the box.
- A good combination of being a team player (coordinate with others, share knowledge, etc.) who is also able to work independently.
Bonus points if you have:
- A first experience in a legal department.
- A first experience in the IT sector.
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Your future
At OMP, we’re eager to find your best career fit. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.Our offer
At OMP, we offer more than just a job. We put people first and inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- International: A growing global company, worldwide career opportunities, and multicultural teams
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits
- Flexibility: Teleworking, flexible hours, and lots of autonomy
- Lifelong learning: A custom training and development track, an extensive coaching program, and on-the-job learning
- Empowerment: Room for initiative and creativity and an emphasis on entrepreneurship
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: A caring and inspiring environment, promoting a happy and healthy lifestyle through a wide range of facilities and activities
- Teamwork: Join a team that lifts you up and learn from the best
Our company
We are OMP, a leading game changer in supply chain planning solutions. The world’s largest companies count on our smart software and services to optimize their supply chains.
Are you ready to join a team of more than 1,000 passionate, creative team players of over 60 nationalities? We work as one team from our head office in Belgium and regional offices in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine, and the US.
We care for our people. True to our innovative spirit, we believe in growing talent and in boosting expertise. Our happy customers include Bridgestone, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Shell.
Want to learn more? Visit careers.omp.com/our-company.
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