Legal Counsel

Overview

Chery Automobile is a leading Chinese auto company and an international brand whose business covers more than 80 countries and regions.

For our Engineering Center in Raunheim, near Frankfurt, we are looking for an In House (Senior) lawyer. We welcome you to join a growing team of extraordinarily talented and enthusiastic people, developing tailor-made cars for the European market. We want to work with a flexible and enthusiastic individual who will be required to support the development of our European vehicles locally as well as globally - jointly with our teams in our headquarter in China.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and revise bilingual contracts (English & German), including R&D cooperation agreements, service agreements, confidentiality agreements, consulting contracts, and other documents.
• Support legal matters relating to intellectual property, data protection and privacy compliance, R&D, labour relations and other operational issues.
• Advice on German intellectual property law, EU GDPR, corporate law, contract law, labor law and other related matters.
• Coordinate with external professional institutes and internal Chinese legal teams to ensure cross-border alignment.
• Assist in internal legal audits, due diligence, risk reviews, and legal archiving.
• Monitor German legal updates and advise on risk mitigation and compliance strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in law or above, with lawyer qualification certificate;
• More than 3 years legal working experience, including working as a lawyer in a law firm and as an in-house lawyer in a company;
• Relevant working experience in automotive industry, familiar with relevant EU laws and regulations on automotive industry;
• Capable to use German and English as working languages;
• Analyze independently and provide legal suggestions on the potential risks and impacts in business operation, project implementation and contracts.
• Fluent communication skills to exchange with personnel of various internal departments, external entity and lawyers.
• Working experience in a Chinese company is a plus, Chinese language is a plus.

We are an international team of professionals with 19 nationalities, friendly and supportive team members, looking forward to your joining!