Legal Counsel

Do you have solid experience in food and product safety law?Do you want to work in close partnership with technical and commercial colleagues to achieve business objectives?

As a Legal Counsel within the Development & Engineering platform of the corporate Legal and Tax function, you will be a member of our dynamic legal and intellectual property rights team.You will have the ability to perform a variety of matters in an international environment and to understand the business impact of competition law, food and product safety requirements and intellectual property rights decisions.

Legal and Tax consists of a team of in-house legal counsel, tax experts, patent and trademark attorneys closely integrated into the business.We operate globally with the support of external advisors.We provide broad legal support to the business unit Development & Engineering (D&E) in close cooperation with the legal teams supporting other parts of the business (commercial, sales, supply chain).

As Legal Counsel with a special focus on food and product safety, your responsibilities are: -Advising on food and product safety legal requirements for packaging systems, in close cooperation with technical and commercial colleagues, both on an event-driven and on a proactive basis.-Coordinating with a network of national and international legal counsels, and external advisors, to track national and international trends.-Advising on key issues and decisions in product creation and product life-cycle processes, providing broad legal advice to technical and commercial colleagues (covering intellectual property rights, contracts, confidentiality, competition law aspects, among others, in addition to food and product safety questions).-Drafting development and research contracts and assisting D&E in the negotiation, implementation and termination of such contracts.-Training and enabling D&E product safety officers in food and product safety law requirements.-Training and enabling D&E project managers in IPR, contracts and competition law issues, -Creating, improving and launching template agreements, checklists & other tools.-Supervising external legal counsel (for expert advice or litigation).-Close teamwork and coordination within D&E Legal &Tax

Kvalifikationer

To be successful in this role you are a qualified lawyer with at least 5 years experience either in-house in an international environment, or with a law firm in the above areas, with a strong experience in food and product safety laws and general contract law, preferably with some experience in intellectual property rights and competition law.You are an effective communicator, a good negotiator, and work comfortably and effectively at different levels and in diverse cultures.You are comfortable using informal authority and interpersonal skills when interacting both within and outside of your own unit.The candidate we are looking for possesses a very good command of English, both written and spoken.The ability to be a self-starter and to work proactively, in a team-oriented way, together with a service minded approach, will be very useful.Applications in English will help us to assess your capabilities best prior to interviews.

The position can be based either in Modena, Italy or in Lund, Sweden.