Legal Counsel

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Sodexo Business Services (SBS) is currently looking for a self-driven Legal Counsel to join our growing Legal team.

A day in the life of a Legal Counsel

You must be a reliable and rigorous in your work, responsible for handling multiple duties and confidential information. Good communication skills and enjoy working in a diverse team!

Your day-to-day

  • Providing effective legal and commercial advice and assistance, in particular regarding Tech, Data and Digital matters
  • Draft and negotiate contracts
  • Assist the function supported regarding the assessment and management of legal and commercial risk and in light of different risk profiles
  • Help to ensure that business is conducted in accordance with relevant law and Sodexo’s internal governance processes
  • Provide preliminary advice on disputes
  • Advise on regulatory compliance
  • Support a range of standard and bespoke contracts and queries with relatively low to medium levels of revenues, complexity and impact

Requirement/Qualifications

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • International commercial legal experience (between 2-4 years’ relevant qualified experience)
  • Good technical knowledge and experience of the law (including contract / commercial law and regulatory issues e.g. software contracts, AI, Data and Digital regulations.), contracts and practice
  • Good technical contract drafting and negotiation skills
  • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills and ability to adjust to different stakeholders.

What you´ll need to suceed:

  • Strong problem-solving skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Excellent organisation, communication and ability to work with all levels within the organisation
  • Demonstrate pro-activeness, critical thinking, effective time management and active listening skills
  • Motivated by working in an international context.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model & Flexible working hours;
  • Health & Life Insurance;
  • Attractive Meal allowance paid in Meal Card;
  • Additional Days off: extra vacation day, employee’s birthday, volunteering day;
  • More than 6000 free online courses;
  • Opportunity to grow professionally inside the Company;
  • Possibility to participate in multicultural projects;
  • Several internal activities aiming to promote our team´s wellbeing.


We are waiting for you!

Send your CV to our email Recruitment.SBS.Portugal@sodexo.com with the title of the role on the subject.

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Sodexo is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. At Sodexo we believe in Privacy and yours is very important to us that´s why your personal data will only be used for the purpose of managing our recruitment process, will be processed in accordance to GDPR and treated confidentially. For further information about how we process your personal data please reach out to privacy.sbs@sodexo.com.