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 mobile work
* Flexible choice of location between our headquarters in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and our KWS office 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.
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