Group Legal Counsel

About the Role

AsGroupLegal Counsel at BDR Thermea Group you will be an integral part of ourGlobalLegalteamreporting intoElke (ourLegal Director)and working closely alongside Eline (Senior Legal Counsel).This is a hands-on high-impact role in which you will support the organisationwith a broad legal inhouse scope in general andacross4pillarsmore specifically:procurement contracting treasuryprivacyand trade compliance. You will be trusted to work independently engage proactively with internal stakeholders and bring the kind of commercial and risk-aware mindset that keeps a complex international business moving forward.

In this role you will own the legal support for our procurement organisation. You will lead the development and implementation of a new contract policy andfit for purposecontract templates and provide coaching and training toempower ourprocurement colleagues in their contracting activities.

This is a hybrid role based out of Apeldoorn the Netherlands. You are invited to work on-site at the office for a minimum oftwoday per week. We support your home office set-up travel costs and provide flexibility regarding hybrid work.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead the legal workstream for procurement: develop and implement a group-wide contract policy and new standard contract templates provide contract reviews and coach procurement teams to build their own contracting capabilitiesreducing dependency on legal over time.

• Act as the first point of legal contact for our Treasury department.

• Support the implementationof theTrade Compliance Policy

• Design and deliver legal training programmes for internal stakeholders across procurement and trade compliance topics building awareness and capability throughout the organisation.

• Engage as a proactive legal business partner: advise on risk exercise sound legal judgement on day-to-day matters and contribute to ad hoc projects across the Group Legal team as the business evolves.

What You Bring

• A masters degree in law

• At least5years of relevant legal experience

• Proven experience in commercial contracting: you are comfortable reviewing and negotiating complex commercial agreements identifying risk and advising stakeholders in plain language.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and a proactive teaching-oriented approach: you do not just provide answersyou build others capability to find them.

• Full professional proficiency in English

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with trade compliance topics

• Experience and/oraffinity with GDPRimplementation(privacy framework)in an international(EU) environment

• Exposure to M&A or treasury-related legal work

What We Offer

• Next to a solid monetary compensation receive a strong pension package.

• Benefit from a healthy work-life balance with 36 holiday days per year based on a full-time contract. 30 of these are for your own choosing 6 are office closure days.

• Take advantage of flexible home-working policies and a home-office budget.