Legal Counsel

EssilorLuxottica; Agordo; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EssilorLuxottica seeks a Legal Counsel based in Agordo to support contracts, regulatory matters, and legal advice across the EMEA region and globally. You will work with Sourcing, R&D, and Compliance teams, drafting and negotiating various agreements, including NDAs and intercompany contracts.

The role reports to the Ops legal team and collaborates with colleagues in Agordo, Milano and Paris, focusing on commercial law, regulatory compliance, and life sciences matters.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in commercial law.
• Regulatory matters exposure in life sciences is a plus.
• Experience drafting and negotiating sourcing and procurement contracts.
• Knowledge of medical devices regulation is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate commercial, procurement, and logistics contracts.
• Provide regulatory advice on medical devices, PPE, and related documents.
• Support the Operations legal team and train internal clients.
• Draft intercompany agreements and NDAs.

Skills

Commercial law

Regulatory knowledge

Sourcing contracts

Job description

If you’ve worn a pair of glasses, we’ve already met.

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

Join our global community of over 190,000 dedicated employees around the world in driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

Your #FutureInSight with EssilorLuxottica

Are you willing to pioneer new frontiers, foster inclusivity and collaboration, embrace agility, ignite passion, and make a positive impact on the world? Join us in redefining the boundaries of what’s possible.

Your role

We are looking for a Legal Counsel who will provide support for contracts, commercial laws, regulatory matters and legal advice across the EMEA region and globally (global contracts negotiated from HQ). The resource will be mainly dedicated to serving:

• Sourcing Team & Indirect Procurement teams, R&D Frames team, by drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial, procurement, logistics, services contracts and similar, NDAs, etc.
• R&D/Engineering/Quality team, by providing legal advice on regulatory matters (medical devices, PPE, clinical trials/investigations, eHealth, telemedicine etc.), H&S, environmental etc., and drafting related contracts and documents

The candidate will be based in Agordo offices and shall collaborate with the other colleagues belonging to the Operations legal team, located in Agordo, Milano and Paris.

Main responsibilities:

• Sourcing and procurement contracts – Review, draft and negotiate services and purchasing agreements, logistics/global forwarding services and other commercial contracts.
• R&D – Review, draft and negotiate development agreement, collaboration agreement, etc
• Regulatory – Legal advice on regulatory matters, medical devices, PPE, , review, draft and negotiate agreements and other documentation related to regulatory area
• General support – Legal support to the rest of the Ops legal team and internal clients on various legal matters, support in organizing and providing trainings, drafting templates, drafting intercompany agreements, NDAs etc.

Main requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in commercial law, along with basic expertise in regulatory matters and demonstrated experience in sourcing and procurement contracts, is a mandatory requirement.
• Knowledge of medical devices regulation and experience in a life science practice area in law firm is a strong plus taken into account.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitment

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and provide equal opportunities to all, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.

Provider

SAP as service provider