Associate Legal Counsel - Commercial Contracting

Rolls-Royce Corporation; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private healthcare

Group life insurance

Additional vacation days

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Rolls-Royce Global Capability Centre Kraków is hiring an Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting). You will draft, review and negotiate supplier and customer contracts, delivering practical legal advice across international stakeholders.

Join a growing legal team in Kraków, working in a technology-enabled environment with supervision increasing over time. A Polish or international law degree with 3+ years in commercial contracts is expected, and a hybrid work model applies.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with a law degree and contract law foundation.
• 3+ years of relevant commercial contracting experience.
• Fluent English, written and spoken, including legal English.
• Experience with procurement, supply‑chain or complex contracts is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and interpret contracts for procurement and customer contracting.
• Prepare legal positions, clause comparisons and workable fallbacks.
• Identify risks, track deadlines, and escalate issues as needed.
• Collaborate with General Counsel, Procurement and Customer teams.
• Help improve templates, playbooks and AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

Fluent English

Contract law knowledge

Legal drafting

Education

Law degree (Polish Magister Prawa or equivalent)

Job description

Why join Rolls‑Royce?

At Rolls‑Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls‑Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world‑class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high‑performance culture.

Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting)

Location: Kraków, Poland.Contract: Full time.

As Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting), you will join a growing legal team in the Rolls‑Royce Global Capability Centre in Kraków, working as part of our global General Counsel function. You will provide practical, timely legal support across supplier and customer contracting, including drafting and negotiation and interpreting existing agreements. You will progress allocated work with proportionate supervision, using feedback to build your expertise and progressively assume greater responsibility, while helping shape a new, technology‑enabled way of delivering legal services. You will support contracting activity across Rolls‑Royce businesses and functions, working with Procurement, customer‑facing teams and General Counsel colleagues. The portfolio will include supplier and customer agreements, with exposure to international stakeholders and complex commercial contracting matters.

What you will be doing:

• Draft, review and interpret contracts: Support procurement and customer contracting, including new agreements, renewals and amendments. With proportionate supervision, use approved templates and playbooks to produce clear drafts and mark‑ups, interpret contractual obligations and provide practical, timely legal advice that colleagues can understand and use
• Support negotiations: Work with procurement and customer‑facing colleagues as part of a cohesive and collaborative Rolls‑Royce team. Prepare legal positions, clause comparisons and workable fallback options that take account of commercial objectives. Work within agreed scope and authority, identifying associated legal risks and issues for review
• Progress matters with sound judgement: Establish the facts, commercial context, dependencies and deadlines and apply the relevant contracting requirements. Organise and prioritise allocated work, keep colleagues informed of progress and seek guidance when required
• Identify and escalat[e] risk: Recognise material legal and commercial issues, uncertainties and urgent deadlines early. Contribute to concise, decision‑ready escalation briefs setting out the issue, options and recommendation, with support from senior colleagues
• Collaborate and develop: Build trusted relationships across General Counsel, Procurement and Customer contracting teams, communicating clearly and working constructively with colleagues. Seek guidance and use feedback to build expertise and progressively assume greater responsibility within agreed scope and authority
• Improve how we work: Keep accurate matter and decision records, protect privilege and confidentiality, share learning and help improve templates, playbooks and technology‑enabled workflows, including the responsible use of AI. Share learning and contribute to practical guidance and training materials with support from senior colleagues

Position requirements:

• A law degree (Polish Magister Prawa or equivalent international law degree), and a sound foundation in contract law.
• Candidates approaching professional legal qualification may be considered where appropriate.
• Fluent written and spoken English, including legal English, with clear drafting, interpretation, analysis and communication skills.
• Relevant commercial contracting experience, ideally 3+ years. Candidates with less experience will also be considered where they can demonstrate the drafting, analysis and judgement needed for the role.

Preferred qualifications and experience:

• Experience with procurement, supply‑chain, customer or complex industrial contracts, ideally within a multinational organisation.
• Exposure to English‑law or other common‑law commercial contracts; an England and Wales practising certificate is welcome but not essential.
• Experience in an in‑house legal team, legal operations, shared services or a centre of excellence.
• Commercial curiosity and judgement, with the ability to understand business priorities, explain legal issues clearly and work collaboratively on practical solutions.
• An interest in responsible technology‑enabled legal delivery.
• Experience in either German or New York law contracting is welcome but not essential.

What do we offer:

• Annual bonus based on financial results and employee performance evaluation
• Employer financed private healthcare at LuxMed for employees.
• Additional packages can be purchased
• Group life insurance
• Subsidy for glasses/contact lenses worn for work, up to the amount of PLN 600 gross, every two years
• Subsidy for extra‑curricular activities within the cafeteria system on the myBenefit platform/subsidy for Multisport cards, up to the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
• Internet and electricity allowance for remote work, in the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
• Increased funding for the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) program; Rolls‑Royce Sp. z o.o. contributes 3% to this program
• Additional vacation days based on length of service
• Hybrid work model (min. 2 days from office)
• Work in a modern office located in the Krakow center – the Unity Tower (ul. Lubomirskiego 20)

The Kraków Rolls‑Royce Global Capability Centre represents an exciting new chapter in the growth of Rolls‑Royce Group Business Services. Designed to support global operations and employee services, the Centre is a key hub for enabling operational efficiency and strengthening global business processes. It delivers exceptional services across finance, procurement, HR, Data Analytics and Service Management. Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi‑year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls‑Royce into a high‑performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls‑Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Rolls‑Royce pioneers cutting‑edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.