Legal Counsel

Vor 5 Tagen

Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland KWS SAAT SE Vollzeit

For our Global Legal & IP Team, we are seeking to recruit a (Senior) Legal Counsel – Business Partner Legal Commercial (m/f/d) for KWS Berlin GmbH. In this role, you will primarily be responsible for the legal matters of our globally active and rapidly expanding Business Unit Vegetables, providing high-quality, business-oriented legal advice. Acting as a proactive and pragmatic sparring partner, you will support the KWS business with an in-depth understanding of the seed industry and its market dynamics.

This is a permanent, full-time position based in Berlin or at our Headquarters in Einbeck.

Your Tasks:

  • Provide pragmatic, solution-oriented legal advice on a wide range of issues mainly relating to our global Business Unit Vegetables, focusing on licensing, distribution, service, supply, lease, purchase, confidentiality, marketing, and other commercial agreements
  • Manage and coordinate civil and administrative litigation matters
  • Act as a trusted sparring partner to the business, identifying new business opportunities, structuring marketing models, and ensuring legally sound solutions with a strong commercial focus
  • Provide legal support for mergers and acquisitions
  • Member and organization of Company Boards
  • Support the Expert Hub Legal by developing and implementing standard contracts, templates, model clauses, document management, and know-how/license management, as well as supporting overarching corporate matters
  • Manage and coordinate the work of external legal advisors

Your Profile:

  • Fully qualified lawyer or comparable degree
  • Extensive professional experience in commercial law within an international business environment
  • Broad knowledge of national and international law
  • Ability to provide legally sound yet pragmatic and business-focused advice
  • High degree of flexibility, mobility, and resilience
  • Excellent customer orientation combined with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Strong communication skills across diverse stakeholder groups and hierarchy levels
  • Team player with an independent, structured working style and strong social competence
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken); knowledge of Portuguese and/or Spanish is an advantage

We offer:

  • An exceptionally interesting and diverse job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas
  • Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies
  • Targeted professional and personal development opportunities
  • Flexible working hours with the possibility of hybrid work
  • Flexible choice of location between our headquarters in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and our "KWS Kontor" in Berlin
  • As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence; this culture is lived out in practice, creating an open and friendly working atmosphere.
  • True to our motto "Make yourself grow", we support employees' professional and personal development.
  • We offer excellent work equipment and sufficient parking spaces at the KWS location. 
  • We offer a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike. 

Seed your career by submitting your application today We are looking forward to your application using our online application system.

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