Legal & Compliance Counsel - Europe (m/f/d) - Alpen, Deutschland - Norgren

Beschreibung

IMI plc

We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world – creating lasting impact for everyone.

We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors: Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science and Fluid Control, and Transport.

Automation

Automation platform leverages deep automation technology and applications expertise to improve productivity, safety and sustainability for our customers. This is split into two sectors:

• Process Automation: Process Automation is a world leading provider of flow control solutions for critical applications across the Energy, Marine and Pharmaceutical markets.
• Industrial Automation: Industrial Automation operates across many important industry sectors and is a world leader in supporting customers with motion and fluid control technology.

Role Overview

Acting as a business partner to IMI Automation's businesses in the Europe region, the role is to support the General Counsel Europe in the provision of legal and compliance advice, to ensure that our European businesses manage contractual, legal, compliance and business risks appropriately and in accordance with applicable law and company policy. With a primary focus on commercial and compliance work, the nature of the businesses means that the work will be of an international and diverse nature.

Key Responsibilities

Generalist Legal Expertise & Guidance

• Supporting the General Counsel Europe to provide guidance on legal, compliance, commercial and business risks for IMI Automation's European businesses.
• Ensuring good corporate governance and assisting with statutory corporate changes.
• Identifying opportunities for and conducting training on all areas of legal and compliance policy and ensuring that full and adequate training records are kept.
• Identifying legal risks or concerns and ensure that significant issues are recognised and addressed.
• Supporting on disputes and assisting the General Counsel Europe with imminent or pending litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters.
• Liaising and collaborating effectively with other departments, including but not limited to, sales, purchasing, engineering, HR, and finance

Contractual Support & IP

• Promoting good practice in terms of contract management processes and intellectual property protection.
• Providing legal guidance and support on all types of commercial contracts and contracting matters, supporting the European businesses with completing quotation/contract approval requests in line with Divisional Standard Operating Procedures ("SOPs") and guidelines.
• Advise and assist with data protection issues and supporting with the roll-out of updated policies and procedures.

Compliance

• Providing legal guidance and support in relation to the compliance programme covering anti-bribery and corruption, trade compliance, data privacy and competition law.
• Assisting with the implementation, monitoring and auditing of IMI legal and compliance policies and SOPs.
• Advise and assist in relation to commercial property matters in conjunction with external legal support where necessary.
• Overseeing the instruction and management of external counsel in line with IMI SOPs.
• Engaging with other lawyers and compliance professionals across the IMI legal and compliance community, ensuring that such persons are well briefed, as appropriate, and that there is a good level of sharing of ideas and team working across the legal and compliance function.
• Supporting as required with the deployment and delivery in region of the annual compliance plan.

Critical Competencies for Success

• Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years work experience in a legal capacity, working in a commercial in-house legal environment (preferably in an engineering and/or manufacturing business).
• Fluent written and spoken German & English. Knowledge of other European languages would be an asset.
• Ability to work effectively independently and as a team member with excellent communication skills.
• The ability to establish, maintain and influence effective working relationships with the senior management team, other key stakeholders and with external customers.
• Good presentation skills and able to communicate effectively to large audiences as well as to senior company officers.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel in the region.