Senior Specialist, Legal

We are on the lookout for a Senior Specialist Legal  to join our local team at foodora Czechia on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

The mission of our local Legal team is to safeguard foodoras fast-paced operations in the Czech Republic by providing versatile pragmatic and business-focused legal guidance. This dedicated role is responsible for navigating the complex local commercial landscape as well as transforming our internal HR compliance processes. By collaborating closely with the local Business Operations Commercial and People departments we aim to drive commercial success operational excellence and foster a seamless experience for our partners riders and employees.

The ideal candidate is a versatile legal generalist with a strong focus on Czech employment law. You will act as a true business enabler handling day-to-day commercial legal operations while taking ownership of complex labor relations on the local market. This role requires a hands-on resilient professional with strong commercial acumen who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves to draft commercial agreements remediate legacy HR issues build robust structures and manage gig-economy compliance. As a Legal Counsel you will work as a strong gatekeeper and strategic partner proactively ensuring compliance with Czech legislation without compromising our fast-paced growth and operational agility.

• Acting as a versatile local legal business partner drafting reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts under Czech law (e.g. vendor partner restaurant marketing and service agreements)

• Serving as the go-to expert and proactive sparring partner for our local HR team helping to structure streamline and remediate internal processes to mitigate legal risks while supporting commercial objectives

• Providing hands-on practical and commercially viable legal guidance on gig-economy and platform worker topics specific to the Czech market

• Partnering directly with the local business operations to deeply understand their goals delivering legal solutions that enable rather than block innovation and market expansion in the CZ region

• Developing and managing standardized local templates for both commercial agreements and employment policies ensuring global guidelines are properly localized for the Czech legal framework

• Bridging the gap between strict legal requirements and fast-paced business needs by building pragmatic compliance strategies risk-assessments and smart workarounds

• Engaging in the resolution of commercial and labor disputes communicating with local authorities and managing potential litigation or settlement negotiations

• Providing firm guidance training and support to both business and HR team members translating complex legal jargon into clear actionable business advice

Qualifications :

• Masters degree in Law from a Czech university (Mgr.)

• At least 3 years of experience in a Legal Counsel or Attorney/Associate role ideally as a corporate generalist with a heavy focus on Czech Employment/Labor Law or an employment lawyer with strong commercial contract experience

• Full professional proficiency in Czech and English (both written and spoken) is a must

• Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of balancing legal risks with operational speed business goals and bottom-line results

• You are resilient and possess a proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations effectively guiding both business and HR teams toward operational excellence

• You love delivering solutions and think out of the box to solve legal obstacles with a track record of cleaning up legacy processes and implementing robust scalable frameworks

• You have deep expertise in navigating Czech labor regulations

• You work independently assertively and collaboratively in a fast-paced highly commercial and unstructured environment

• You are able to anticipate business needs push back when necessary and drive compliance initiatives forward without stifling innovation
   

Nice to have:

• Prior in-house experience in the food delivery e-commerce gig-economy or fast-moving logistics sector within the CEE region

• Experience with translating and implementing global corporate policies into local Czech operations

• Experience communicating with Czech regulatory bodies

Additional Information :

At foodora (part of Delivery Hero group) we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities religious beliefs color national origin gender identities or expressions sexual orientations age marital or disability statuses or any other aspect that makes you you. Just be yourself and we cant wait to see what value you bring to the role. Were as interested in your character as we are in your talent.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time