Legal Counsel

7 Minutes ago • 3-5 Years • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

TVH is seeking a motivated Legal Counsel to join its 7-person legal team, partnering with business teams globally to achieve strategic objectives. The role involves balancing legal soundness with business-oriented solutions, fostering knowledge sharing, and gaining expertise in various legal topics. The Legal Counsel will work on a varied set of legal matters, contributing to the efficiency and global support of the legal function.
Must have:
  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of contracts
  • Advising business teams on legal matters (IT, data privacy, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI, supplier/customer relations)
  • Setting up and implementing data privacy compliance strategies
  • Reflecting on and improving legal team efficiency (templates, policies, processes, tech tools)
  • Ensuring global support from the legal function
  • Liaising with external lawyers and service providers
  • Keeping up-to-date with legal evolutions and sharing knowledge
Good to have:
  • Real team player
  • Eager to work in a dynamic environment
Perks:
  • Competitive salary with benefits (company car, meal vouchers, insurances)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home working
  • Healthy work-life balance
  • 20 paid vacation days
  • 12 WTR days
  • People-centric culture
  • Mental well-being support
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning
  • Many in-house (and external) training courses

Job Details

TVH is looking for a motivated Legal Counsel to join the legal team.

As Legal Counsel, you will partner with the TVH business teams to achieve the strategic objectives of the company worldwide, while balancing the need for legally sound and business-oriented solutions. You will be part of a legal team consisting of 7 people, enabling knowledge sharing within the team, brainstorming on complex matters and the possibility to gain expertise in a given field while still being able to work on a varied set of legal topics.

Your role and responsibilities:

  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of contracts, and advising the business teams on various legal matters, mainly in the context of IT, data (privacy), e-commerce, cybersecurity and AI, supplier and customer relations and other commercial transactions.
  • Setting up and implementing the required strategies, frameworks and documentation to ensure that TVH is compliant with data privacy legislation.
  • Consistently reflecting on how the work of the legal team can be organized more efficiently, among others by establishing templates, policies, effecting changes in legal or cross-departmental processes or using (tech) tools.
  • Ensuring that the legal function, which today operates out of the company’s headquarters in Belgium, supports the business globally.
  • Liaising with external lawyers and other service providers, looking for providers that can deliver excellent value for money.
  • Keeping up-to-date with relevant legal evolutions and developments, applying such up-to-date knowledge on a day-to-day basis and sharing any relevant knowledge within the legal team or providing training more broadly throughout the organization.

How to succeed / Your profile:

  • Belgian Master's degree in Law.
  • At least 3 to 5 years of experience in data (privacy), IT, contract and commercial law, excellent drafting skills and ability to summarize and communicate complex legal issues in a concise manner.
  • Real team player.
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, demonstrated legal skills (combined with an ability to take a strategic view on the challenges and issues facing the business), and eager to work in a dynamic environment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Fluent in Dutch and English. Good knowledge of French.

What’s in it for you:

  • A competitive salary with benefits such as a company car, meal vouchers and insurances.
  • Flexible working hours, home working and a healthy work-life balance.
  • 20 paid vacation days and 12 WTR days.
  • A people-centric culture where your mental well-being matter.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning and many in-house (and external) training courses.

People are at our heart

TVH is a global business with a family atmosphere, where people are at the center. We value clarity, mutual respect, kindness and open communication. Our people are down-to-earth, easy to work and engage with. We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas.

About TVH

TVH is a parts specialist for quality parts and accessories for material handling, industrial vehicles, and construction and agricultural equipment. Working at TVH is opting for a company that excels as an international market leader and is well-known for its unstoppable craving for innovation.

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