About this role

As the first Legal Counsel at Otrium you will be the go to person for all different legal questions and issues. At this moment we only use external advisors, you will be taking over most of these cross-departmental projects and take the lead. Be the internal advisor and manage big impactful, global projects. Next to your own projects, you will coordinate and manage external advisors/firms.

Role responsibilities

• Review and negotiate complex agreements that meet the company’s requirements under its policies, including those for risk tolerance, while working collaboratively with the business team, including various executives;

• Collaborate with finance, sales operations, partnership, product operations, HR and other business units at all levels throughout the organization to ensure that agreements adequately protect the company’s interests;
• Support the continuous improvement of standard forms of agreement and legal processes;
• Be a trusted business partner, responding in a timely and productive manner to requests from internal customers;
• Counsel internal customers regarding company policies, legal issues, and risk tolerance;
• Specifying internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance.

Experience, knowledge & skills

• Master degree qualification, with solid post qualification experience in middle or top tier law firm and/or a large multinational organization is crucial;

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience and you’re a master of corporate law;
• You’ve extensive experience in conflict / settlement resolution;
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills, and a talent for non-confrontational, win-win negotiations;
• Exceptional critical thinking abilities, who possesses strong business acumen and excellent business judgment; must be able to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and pivot between responsibilities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to distill complex issues clearly and communicate well both one-on-one and in groups, and in internal and external contexts.

About you

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset. We are a scale-up, a lot of building together, create the legal department;
• Strong project management approach, excellent time-management and organizational skills with a solid understanding of legal operations;
• Proactive, with a flexible attitude and great influencing - and communication skills;
• Comfortable to act as organizational conscience, balancing sound regulatory compliance with a hands-on business culture.
  
  

What it’s like to work at Otrium

• You will be part of an enthusiastic and highly ambitious team with a growth and entrepreneurial mindset;

• The possibility to learn, grow, and contribute to one of the fastest-growing startups in Europe, and soon the US (with your help!);
• Freedom and responsibility: we believe in ownership, so we will give you full responsibility to make sure you can get the job done;
• You’ll be working with very talented colleagues - in a different time zone - that know what they are doing as everyone has experience at other amazing fast-growing companies;
• Next to working together, we celebrate our success together. With every target we make and record we break, we celebrate!
  
  

What's next

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