Job Description
KWS is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.5 billion in the fiscal year 2021/2022. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants' resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €285 million last fiscal year in research and development.For our global Legal & IP team at KWS SAAT SE & Co KGaA, we are looking for an Expert Legal Operations & Corporate Law (m/f/d) to start as soon as possible. The Expert Legal Operations & Corporate Law (m/f/d) is responsible for the implementation of state-of-the-art digital software solutions for the legal area as well as the standardization and optimization of the processes of the Legal & IP team including the development of standard contracts and other legal documents in the Expert Hub Legal. In addition, he acts as a reliable and competent expert for corporate law matters and overarching group law topics with regard to the global activities of the KWS Group. This position is permanent and full-time. The place of work is at the KWS location in Berlin or at our HQ in Einbeck / Southern Lower Saxony. Hybrid working is possible.
Your tasks:
- Implementation of state-of-the-art digital legal software solutions
- Optimization and continuous further development of the processes and IT structures of the KWS legal department
- Development and implementation of standard contracts/clauses and other overarching legal documents for the entire KWS Group in close cooperation with the KWS Legal Team
- Provision of high-quality legal advice for overarching corporate law matters of the KWS Group
- Ensuring appropriate and consistent corporate housekeeping for the KWS Group in accordance with applicable laws and in close cooperation with the Business Partners Legal responsible for the regions
- Responsibility for the development and processing of inter-company contracts and structures in close cooperation with the KWS legal team
- Coordination and processing of interface topics of the KWS Legal & IP department to the other KWS Global & Group Functions
- Monitoring of legal developments with potential overarching relevance for the KWS Group and initiating and coordinating the necessary respective internal legal framework
- Further development and implementation of Group-wide legal guidelines and processes.
- Fully qualified lawyer, Master of Laws, business lawyer or comparable, also foreign, degree
- Experience in legal operations and legal tech as well as a high affinity for IT
- Experience in corporate law in a global industry environment is an advantage
- Ability to provide legally sound and at the same time pragmatic legal advice
- Excellent customer orientation and entrepreneurial way of thinking and working
- Excellent communication skills with regard to different target groups and hierarchical levels
- Team player with a hands-on mentality and at the same time an independent, structured way of working
- Experience in project management an advantage
- Mobility and flexibility
- Fluent written and spoken English, good knowledge of German is an advantage
- An extremely interesting and varied job with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas.
- Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies.
- Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working.
- As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and foresight - a culture that is also lived out in practice, especially through an open and friendly working atmosphere.
- Following the motto: "Make yourself grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development.
- As a basis, we offer excellent working facilities and sufficient free parking spaces at the location.
- We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and holiday pay, childcare allowance, job bike.