Legal Expert (Employee Benefits)

WARREN; Gent; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

WARREN in Ghent is seeking a Legal Expert specializing in employee benefits law to join their innovative team. The role involves not only legal advisory but also active participation in product development, ensuring compliance, and shaping real outcomes for clients.

As a key authority on Belgian employee benefits legislation, you will collaborate across teams, making legal expertise a vital component of the product and sales strategies. A deep understanding of the Belgian pension landscape, particularly WAP and IORP II, is essential.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in employee benefits law or pension governance.
• Native Dutch speaker, fluent in English; French is a plus.
• Ability to translate complex legal terms into plain language.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the internal reference for legal questions on employee benefits.
• Review and validate legal compliance of scheme designs.
• Join prospect meetings to handle legal objections.
• Draft and maintain key fund documents.

Skills

Belgian social and employment law

Employee benefits regulation

Pension governance

Legal advisory

Commercial awareness

Education

Law degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Legal Expert Employee Benefits

Stop advising from the sidelines. Build the thing you know should exist.

Belgium (hybrid, main hub in Ghent)

Role at a glance

• Location: Belgium (hybrid, main hub in Ghent)
• Team: Legal · Employee Benefits

Why we exist

The legal framework around Belgian employee benefits is a masterpiece of complexity. WAP obligations, IORP II governance, CAO mechanics, tax treatment, FSMA compliance, most employers navigate it blindly, most employees never understand it, and most advisors spend their careers drafting opinions that gather dust.

That’s where WARREN comes in. We’re pioneering Wealth Enablement: a new category that makes pension, benefits and investing modern, transparent, and genuinely valued. We’ve secured our pension fund license, a first-of-its-kind in Belgium, and we’re building the platform and organisation to match.

To do that right, we need someone who doesn’t only know the law but someone who can use it as a competitive advantage. Someone who wants their expertise to shape real products, real contracts, and real outcomes for thousands of employees.

What you’ll own

This is a rare vacancy. Most legal experts in the benefits space spend their career writing advice that feeds back into the same slow-moving system. At Warren, your legal knowledge becomes a product input, a sales weapon, and a governance pillar, all at once.

You’ll be our internal authority on Belgian employee benefits law: the person the team turns to when a scheme design question has legal weight, when a prospect challenges our model, or when a regulatory change creates an opportunity we haven’t spotted yet.

You’ll work across teams (sales, product, engineering and operations) making sure Warren’s proposition is legally sound, commercially sharp, and ahead of the curve. This isn’t a pure advisory role. You’ll own outcomes, not just opinions.

The day to day

01 Legal Foundation for Product & Proposition

• Serve as the internal reference for all legal questions on employee benefits: group insurance, OFP structures, (sector) pension plans, benefit-in-kind frameworks, and supplementary pension tax treatment.
• Review and validate scheme designs to ensure legal compliance before they go to market.
• Translate regulatory changes (WAP amendments, FSMA guidance, new CAO frameworks) into clear, actionable implications for the product and sales teams.
• Help define the legal boundaries of what Warren can offer and find the room to innovate within them.

02 Sales & Commercial Support

• Join prospect meetings and tenders as the legal expert: handle technical objections, validate scheme comparisons, and build confidence in Warren’s regulatory standing.
• Develop legal-layer sales enablement content: compliance checklists, regulatory Q&As, and scheme design validation guides.
• Help prospects understand their current legal exposure (e.g. missing WAP compliance, underperforming legacy contracts, governance gaps,…) and why Warren is the structured answer.
• Support RFP and tender responses with legally accurate, well-argued technical content.

03 Pension Fund Governance (Warren Pension Fund OFP)

• Provide ongoing legal support to the pension fund: pension regulations, membership agreements, employer contracts, and FSMA correspondence.
• Draft, review, and maintain core fund documents: statutes, internal rules, financing agreements, and governance policies.
• Monitor Belgian and European regulatory developments and flag material changes to the Board and management team.
• Support the key functions in ensuring the fund meets its IORP II obligations.

04 Knowledge Building & Internal Expertise

• Own the internal legal knowledge base on employee benefits regulation.
• Run structured knowledge sessions to keep the sales, ops, and product teams legally literate without overwhelming them.
• Collaborate with external legal counsel where specialist input is needed, and manage those relationships efficiently.
• Contribute to Warren’s public voice on employee benefits law: articles, whitepapers, or event content where legal credibility matters.

This Role Is for You If…

You’ve spent years building deep expertise in Belgian social and employment law, benefits regulation, or pension governance and you’re ready to do something with it beyond writing memos.

• You have 3–5+ years of experience in employee benefits law, social security law, HR legal advisory, or pension governance in a law firm, consultancy, insurer, or in‑house legal team.
• You understand the Belgian 2nd pillar pension landscape: WAP, IORP II, labour legislation, FSMA oversight, and group insurance structures. Deep 2nd pillar expertise is a strong plus.
• You can switch between legal precision and plain language, you know when a contract needs watertight drafting and when a prospect just needs a clear answer.
• You’re commercially curious: you want to understand the business, not just protect it.
• You’re energised by change, not paralysed by it: you see a fast‑moving regulatory environment as an opportunity.
• You’re a natural collaborator who enjoys working with people who don’t share your vocabulary, and closing that gap.
• Native Dutch speaker, fluent in English. French is a genuine advantage in a bilingual market.

Most importantly: you want your legal expertise to leave a mark, not sit in a filing cabinet.

Work that leaves a mark.

• Stop advising, start building: your work shapes real products and real outcomes.
• Full-spectrum exposure: you’ll touch pension fund governance, product design, commercial deals, and regulatory strategy.
• Rare seniority for your profile: early‑stage means your expertise carries genuine weight from day one.
• Mission with impact: fixing pensions & financial wellness for millions of employees across Belgium.
• Join a team of top professionals backed by top‑tier investors, in a company that moves at fintech speed.

Tell us your story.

Send us a short note at [e-mail] telling us:

• Your background and the benefits law experience you’re bringing.
• A moment where your legal expertise changed a real outcome: for a client, a product, or an organisation.
• Why you’re done advising from the outside.

Let’s build the future of financial wellness together