Counsel - Global Pest

Ecolab, Inc.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Stock purchase plan

Lunch subsidy

Sport cards

Relocation support

Job summary

Ecolab is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel to create, review, revise, and negotiate commercial contracts for the Global Pest business. You will advise internal stakeholders on contract terms and conditions and support multiple business areas. Responsibilities will expand to other areas over time.

The role emphasizes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with end customers and providing risk-informed legal guidance across regions.

Qualifications

• Law degree with license to practice law.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts with end customers.
• Ability to identify, analyze and communicate legal risks to internal clients.
• Strong English drafting and negotiation skills.
• Experience training or supervising junior lawyers or paralegals is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Provide general legal advice to senior management and business groups.
• Build and manage relationships with key legal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Global Pest stakeholders to understand business context.
• Identify and mitigate risks affecting contracts.
• Coordinate with the Global Pest legal team across time zones.

Skills

Commercial contracts

In-house experience

English drafting

Risk communication

Multinational exposure

Education

Law degree

Job description

This position will create, review, revise, and negotiate commercial contracts for our Global Pest business. In addition to helping execute our commercial contracts you will also be advising and soliciting input from internal stakeholders on contract terms and conditions that may affect their respective business areas on various levels of complexity of contracts and documents to support the commercial businesses at Ecolab. Responsibilities will later expand to other areas.

What You Will Do:

• Review and negotiate agreements in connection with commercial transactions
• Offer general legal advice to company management and functional business groups
• Build and manage ongoing relationships with key legal stakeholders
• Partner with key stakeholders and Global Capability Owner to understand business context and priorities
• Mitigate major risks that threaten the delivery of work for contracts that are on customer forms or created internally
• Oversee or collaborate with Global Pest legal team members in our GBS+ organization across time zones (including in Buenos Aires, Argentina), ensuring effective collaboration, professional development, and high-quality legal support.

What You Will Need:

• Law degree and a professional license / authorization to practice law with 10+ years of commercial contracting experience.
• Previous experience with multinational industrial / manufacturing companies preferred but not required.
• Previous in-house legal experience preferred but not required.
• Strong experience in commercial law including drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts with end customers.
• Proficient in drafting various types of contracts in English.
• The ability to identify, analyze, and communicate legal risks to enable internal clients to make quality, risk-adjusted business decisions.
• Experience managing or training other lawyers or paralegals is a plus but is not required.
• Strong organizational skills. Ability to coordinate multiple responsibilities and geographies concurrently and prioritize to meet required timelines.
• Decisive decision-maker who understands global organizational impacts and has cultural awareness.
• English Fluency (other languages a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• Flexibility to adapt and lead through change as business requirements evolve.

What’sin it For You:

• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary (Base pay & Variable Plan) and benefits package (private medical care, life insurance, stock purchase, lunch subsidy, sport cards).

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working arrangements with hybrid model of work (approx. 60% from the office and 40% from home)

• Matrix Organization: Thrive in our matrix organization, working across Europe with various teams and cultural backgrounds.

• Collaborative Environment: Strong teamwork and diverse interactions.

• Development Opportunities: Personalized plans with rapid progression

• Versatile Career Paths: Professional growth supported by activecommitteefor different career levels.

• Supportive Culture: High employee satisfaction and responsive feedback.

• Learning and Innovation: Continuous learning and technical trainingincl. subject matter experts’trainings, soft skills and managementtrainingsand LinkedIn learning.

• Relocation Support: Assistance for international candidates and candidates livingoutsideofKrakow.

• Social events such as family events and charity auctions.

• Comfortable working environment (Library, relaxation area, casual dress code).

• Parking space for cars and bikes.

About Ecolab:

At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at ournearly threemillion customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Our solutions not only enhance operational efficiency but also contribute to sustainability and public health, making a positive impact on the world. We are committed toeliminatingunnecessary complexities and embracing a beginner’s mindset, continuously seeking new perspectives and innovative solutions to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.

Ecolab’s commitment to diversity,equityand inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and dowhat’sright.