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Legal Counsel Procurement (m/f/d)

NTT Global Data Centers

Hemel Hempstead

Remote

GBP 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Legal Counsel Procurement to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will support procurement activities by drafting and negotiating a variety of contracts, from supply agreements to consultancy appointments. With a focus on the EMEA region, you will leverage your legal expertise to ensure compliance with evolving regulations while collaborating closely with internal teams and external counsel. This position offers the flexibility of remote work, along with opportunities for international travel, making it an exciting chance to grow in a global environment. If you are a proactive lawyer with a passion for procurement and commercial law, this role is tailored for you.

Qualifications

4-5 years of experience in procurement contract negotiation.
Fluency in English and German is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Draft and negotiate procurement contracts across multiple areas.
Support negotiations with suppliers and manage external counsel.

Skills

Contract Negotiation

Legal Drafting

Commercial Awareness

German Language Proficiency

Dispute Management

Education

Qualified Lawyer (German Rechtsanwalt or English Solicitor)

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As our Legal Counsel Procurement (m/f/d), you will be part of NTT Global Data Centers Legal team and support the Procurement team in reviewing and negotiating procurement contracts and handling all other commercial legal matters in relation to the procurement activities. The role sits within the Global Procurement, Litigation and Claims Management legal team as part of the Global legal team.

What you will do

Support the Procurement department with the drafting, review and negotiation of supply and procurement contracts across multiple areas ( including purchase and installation of goods and equipment, services agreements, NDAs, consultancy appointments, standard terms & conditions, security services contracts, data center maintenance, critical equipment contracts, IT procurement contracts, construction contracts, novation agreements etc.) for all sites in our EMEA footprint (currently Germany, England, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, France and South Africa), with support by local external legal counsel if required
Drafting, improving, and adapting procurement template agreements with up-to-date legal requirements, as well as preparing approval request forms and legal memos for the Procurement department, including maintaining and updating a template library
Supporting negotiations with suppliers and subcontractors
Summarizing legal facts as a basis for making commercial and legal decisions
Management of external counsel
Conducting internal legal training and preparing internal guidelines

What we are looking for

Qualified lawyer (ideally German Rechtsanwalt or English qualified solicitor or barrister)
Demonstrable minimum 4-5 years post-qualification experience (in-house or in a law firm) in drafting, reviewing and negotiating direct and/or indirect procurement contracts across multiple areas
Working experience in DACH region and excellent business knowledge of the German language
Solid commercial contracts experience and commercial awareness of contractual conditions
Experience of working in both common law and civil law jurisdiction and managing pre-litigation and dispute would be an advantage
Experience in advising on, negotiating, and executing non-standard supplier contracts
Option to work fully remote with the willingness to travel internationally
Business fluency in English

Please submit your CV in English

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Global Data Centers division of NTT DATA

Global Data Centers is a division of NTT Ltd. Our global platform is one of the largest in the world. NTT is ranked as one of the top three leaders worldwide by IDC in their Colocation and Interconnection Services MarketScape, spanning more than 20 countries and regions including North America, Europe, Africa, India and APAC.

As a neutral operator, we offer access to multiple cloud providers, a large variety of Internet Exchanges and telecommunication network providers including our own IPv6 compliant, tier 1 global IP network. Our clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and experience consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our reliable, scalable and customizable data centers.

Working for Global Data Centers EMEA

We are one of the leading and largest data center provider and for more than 20 years we have been supporting our clients from a wide variety of industries with our talented team of nearly 900 people (m/f/d). Today, we are designing and operating 18 data center locations across 160,000 sqm in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain and expanding into further markets. Our people come from a variety of industries and work together to find the best solution for every challenge. Due to the diversity of backgrounds our people (m/f/d) come from, the ability to work in teams and good communication skills are very important to us.

As a performance-oriented company, we value expert knowledge and people who want to shape the future. We are growing internationally and offer our people (m/f/d) the opportunity to work worldwide within the NTT Group if they are suitably qualified and interested.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Associate

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Legal, Consulting, and Quality Assurance
Industries
Construction, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Legal Services

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