Legal Counsel
Essity
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hamburg • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Junior
About the role
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts in German and English across various areas of the MedTech business
- Providing legal guidance to the business on innovation projects, product launches, and product and brand management
- Conducting legal analyses and legal risk assessments across multiple jurisdictions
- Converting legal analyses into legal opinions and ensuring implementation of conclusions within the necessary business processes
- Promoting transparency and establishing standards in the business by helping to build and maintain compliant internal processes and IT-based routines
- Further developing close cooperation with internal functions such as IP, Sourcing, Quality, Clinical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs, as well as Product Management and Marketing
Requirements
- Successfully completed legal studies (above average; for Germany: “vollbefriedigend”) in a major European jurisdiction
- Business-fluent in German and English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus
- Specialization in (unfair) competition law and/or medical devices / medicinal products law
- 1–4 years’ experience as external counsel in an international business law firm or in an in-house legal department within the MedTech / Pharma sector
- Solution-oriented and cooperative mindset
- Ability to navigate a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
- Eagerness to learn and grow
Benefits
- Compensation above tariff
- Annual special payment
- Bonus
- Annual salary review process
- Pension schemes
- Anniversary bonus
- Child allowance
- Corporate Benefits & other employee benefits
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Overtime compensation
- 39-hour work week
- 30 days of vacation plus additional balancing days
- Lifetime working-time account
- Structured onboarding
- Training opportunities, including a digital learning platform
- Coaching & mentoring as part of individual development plans where applicable
- Participation in professional conferences and trade fairs
- Discounted gym membership
- Urban Sports Club
- Lease-a-bike program
- Health and well-being month
- Walk-and-talk meetings
- nilo.health & mindfulness courses
- PME Familienservice
- Employee surveys
- People-oriented culture
- Communities & networks
- Co-working spaces
- Leadership guidelines
- Canteen
- Public transport allowance
- Bicycle parking
- Free car parking
- E-charging stations
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
contract draftingcontract negotiationlegal analysislegal risk assessmentlegal opinion writingcompliance standardsinternal processesIT-based routinescompetition lawmedical devices law
Soft skills
solution-oriented mindsetcooperative mindsetcommunication skillsability to navigate matrix organizationseagerness to learninterpersonal skillscollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingstakeholder management
Certifications
law degree