Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Ensure the legal interests of adidas AG in individual and collective employment-law.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide clear, business-minded, legal advice to HR, business-, function-, and project stakeholders in all individual and collective employment-law related matters
* Draft and review employment contract template/clauses and company agreements
* Implementation and improvement of standards and processes incl. template management
* Deliver expert opinions, identify best-practices and support implementation concepts
* Handle litigation cases and manage external counsel support
* Conduct internal employment law trainings
* Active support and close cooperation with other global legal team members
Key Relationships:
* Interacts and works with HR and Legal community
* Interacts with external legal counsels
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Business oriented mind-set with the ability to balance legal requirements against business needs
* Demonstrated problem solving capabilities and comfortable working in an environment, which demands high quality deliverables
* Ability to work well independently and on own initiative, maintaining customer-centricity while setting/shifting priorities
* Team player with strong interpersonal skills and can-do mentality
* Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
* Discrete, empathic and trustworthy personality
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
* Fully qualified lawyer (final grade of "fully satisfactory")
* Ideally, certified employment-law specialist (Fachanwalt in/für Arbeitsrecht)
* 2-3 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in an international company or in an international law firm
* Business-fluent English and German, both written and spoken
* Good MS-Office 365 skills