Legal Counsel

At Axis, our people are crucial to our success - without them, we wouldn't be the global leader in network video surveillance. We are growing in terms of both revenue and employees, and we are offering an excellent opportunity to work in a great company, with a friendly team to support the growth and success of Axis. We are now looking for a Legal Counsel Sales and Finance that wants to join our fantastic Legal Team in Lund and contribute to our success journey forward!

WHO IS YOUR FUTURE TEAM?
The Legal Team consists of experienced legal advisors with a deep understanding of Axis' business. We work as an integral part of the daily business - with great impact and in close collaboration with our stakeholders. We support the Axis Group globally in cooperation with external legal advisors. Currently the Team includes legal counsels, senior legal counsels, trade compliance specialists and para legal. Our common goal is to support Axis' sustainable and successful growth through tailor-made, smart legal and strategical advice. The Axis Legal Team currently consists of 12 positive, driven, professional and including team members, all looking forward to meeting you!

WHAT YOU'LL DO HERE AS LEGAL COUNSEL
As Legal Counsel you will work both independently and in close collaboration with your team members, contract managers as well as other colleagues within the Axis Group. The job will offer you a wide and global contact net and a variety of challenging work tasks on a cross-functional basis. This position requires a high degree of accountability, professional motivation and drive, and the ability to develop relationships of trust and confidence both within and outside of Axis. Your main responsibility will be to support the business with legal advice within a wide range of legal matters related to international sales, distribution, IT law focusing on license agreements, but also compliance matters such as competition law and corporate governance. You will mainly support the Sales and Finance department, but will also provide legal advice to other departments such as IT. You will report to the Senior Legal Manager - Sales and Finance at HQ in Lund. Your work tasks will include to:

* Work proactively to assess and manage legal risks, and provide advice to business stakeholders on such risks;
* Draft, review, negotiate and provide advice on various legal agreements and documents, such as distribution agreements, NDA's, licensing agreement, intra-group agreements and collaboration agreements;
* Manage, coordinate, and oversee the work of outside counsel, consultants, and other advisors to facilitate the delivery of appropriate and cost efficient local legal advice to the Axis Group;
* Be part of the creation and communication of internal awareness education and trainings;
* Draft, implement and actively engage in the work with continuous improvements of template agreements, policies and other legal documents promoted by Axis Legal.

WHO ARE YOU?
We believe you are a highly skilled, driven, analytical, structured, efficient, and business oriented Legal Counsel that love working in an international environment with corporate commercial law questions. You can prioritize your work tasks and see the big pictures, and are able to communicate complex legal assessment and advice in a clear and simple way. As a person you are a self-starter who is motivated by working in a high-pace international organization where you can provide high-class service to our stakeholders. We value that you have integrity and respect for others, a sense of humor and that you enjoy being a team-player.

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

* A law degree (LL.M) from a Swedish University or equivalent
* At least 3 years' experience from working as in-house legal counsel or at a law firm.
* Good knowledge of and experience from working with corporate commercial law related matters, including but not limited to sales and distribution;
* Good knowledge of IT-agreement, specifically licensing agreements;
* Strong verbal and analytics skills; exceptional interpersonal skills; highly team-oriented; and
* Great communications skills and fluency in Swedish and English, both verbally and in writing.

WHAT CAN AXIS DO FOR YOU?
In addition to all the exciting things I've described above, we can offer you an innovative and global organization that takes great pride in delivering world-class, high quality products to our customers at a workplace where we truly care about our employees and their success. We are proud of our fantastic culture that is characterized by openness, curiosity, trust and honesty and that we always walk the talk.

READY TO ACT?
I hope this position has gotten you curios and I'm hoping to see your application. If you have any questions about Axis or this job, don't hesitate to contact Kirsten Wikkelsø, Senior Legal Manager - Sales and Finance, 046-272 37 37. We review applications continuously!