Global Director Legal (Industrial | Life Science & Environment) (m / f / d).

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Act as primary legal advisor to all stakeholders in the business unit Industrial and the LS&E division.
• Provide operational legal support across a wide range of matters, including commercial contracts, antitrust and competition law issues, and general legal issues in various areas of law. Develop and implement comprehensive legal frameworks to support business objectives and risk management. Prepare and negotiate national and international contracts with customers and suppliers, such as complex contracts for the supply and installation of equipment, EPC / subcontracts, and operating and maintenance agreements. Advise and support the supply chain in the preparation and handling of claims.
• Work closely with specialist departments and international teams to ensure legal compliance of company activities.
• Coordinate and supervise external law firms and legal costs. Manage legal disputes, including developing litigation strategies.
• Monitor effective internal control processes and ensure compliance with local and global reporting requirements.
• Lead and develop the employees allocated to this business segment. Establish strategic legal support in the Industrial business unit and the LS&E division to strengthen cooperation with the operating business.

Your Profile

• Education: Fully qualified lawyer with at least ten years of professional experience in a legal department of a multinational company or as a lawyer in an internationally respected law firm.
• Work experience: Experience in the Machinery and (plant) construction industry.
• Skills: Relevant experience in project business and public tenders; experience in leveraging external counsel to provide efficient critical legal support; sound judgment and the ability to present complex issues precisely and comprehensibly.
• Language skills: High level of proficiency in verbal and written German and English. Other languages are an advantage.
• Personality: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with intercultural sensitivity and the ability to explain and solve complex legal matters. Proactive, collaborative, able to balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, and able to work independently with the willingness to travel worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. We filter exclusively for the best talent. We welcome applications from all people regardless of age, gender, origin, ancestry, disability, or other legally protected grounds.

Social Benefits

• You work with a high degree of autonomy and decision-making freedom.
• Performance-based compensation and comprehensive social benefits.
• Flexible working hours / trust-based working time, plus 30 days of vacation.
• Hybrid working option for employees with children under 12 years: 3 days in Ludwigsburg, 2 days remote; otherwise, 5 days in Ludwigsburg.
• Everyone has Talent: Our talent management process supports your professional development.
• In-house company restaurant.
• Reserved places in a private daycare center nearby (for both under-3 and over-3 children).
• A modern company pension plan to complement your statutory pension insurance.
• Additional private health insurance (e.g., dental insurance).
• A wide range of discounts through our Corporate Benefits Portal (e.g., vacations, fashion, insurance, etc.).
• Mobility benefits: subsidy for the Germany Ticket, JobRad leasing, and e-charging stations in the company parking garage with a company charging rate.

Are you full of ideas? Are you keen to take on responsibility and really achieve something? Then our doors are open to you. This company lives out its values, gives people the freedom to use their own initiative, and offers many development opportunities and exciting projects — all of which awaits you here.