Legal Counsel Kladno

Legal Counsel

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a company instrumental to the worldwide green agenda and in an in-house role closely connected to the business? This is your perfect opportunity. NKT is looking for a legal counsel with an international mindset and a commercial perspective. Based in Kladno (CZ) as part of our global Corporate Commercial, Compliance & M&A department your focus is to provide business oriented legal advisory services to senior management in NKT, sales and procurement managers across the world.
**Broad range of legal areas with focus on commercial contracts**
Your overall goal is to efficiently deliver best in class strategic advice to NKT business lines across multiple jurisdictions. With contracts as your primary focus area you will work across key customer agreements, supply agreements in connection with tender and public procurement processes, global real estate, cable repair and installation contracts, international financing agreements, procurement contracts, distribution agreements, NDA’s and other similar documents.
Your tasks include:
- Drafting, advising on and negotiations of contracts
- Dispute handling and negotiations
- Corporate tasks
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Engagement of external lawyers
- Training of managers and colleagues
To succeed, you will be required to establish a trustworthy relation to your internal clients across the business and provide advise with a distinct commercial perspective. You can expect 10-20 days of travel per year.
You will be based out of Kladno office, Czech, with the option to work from home for 1-2 days a week and work closely together with a team of local lawyers and other professionals. In Kladno, our Corporate Affairs team consists of approximately 6-8 members. You will report to the Head of Commercial Legal who is based at HQ in Denmark.
**Your background**
You possess the capacity to focus on your tasks while also collaborating effectively with others. You have solid analytical skills and the ability to handle and prioritize among multiple tasks and deadlines. Despite of your legal background you are first and foremost professionally interested in business - the use of law as leverage for achieving good business results. As advisor to senior managers, you can establish trust based on your professional behavior and business understanding.
You also have:
- A Master of Law degree
- Minimum 3-4 years of legal training from a law firm or a big-sized international company.
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, you understand and can communicate liability and risk profiles across different contract types. In addition, you can explain complex legal concepts to stakeholders without legal training.
- If you have litigation, M&A or other transactional experience it is beneficial an advantage but not a prerequisite.
- Proficiency in English. Proficiency in additional languages such as Czech, Polish, German, Swedish or Danish is a is beneficial, but not a prerequisite.
**Supercharge your career**
You can look forward to being part of Corporate Affairs, an engaged, skilled, and multinational department of approximately 25 professionals divided on legal, compliance, enterprise risk and insurance. The Corporate Commercial, Compliance & M&A department consists of nine legal, compliance, risk, and IP professionals. You will work in an open, international, and team-focused climate where your personal career development and preparation for future attractive positions in the group will be supported, e.g. via continuous training and regular feedback. We offer flexible working hours, possibility to work from home, employer′s pension contribution, meal vouchers and other benefits.
NKT is committed to fostering a diverse organization and a culture where people from different backgrounds can thrive and are inspired to perform at their best. We believe that a diverse organization enables sustainable performance, and that an inclusive and welcoming culture makes for a better place to work.
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**About NKT**:
- At NKT, we are all Connectors. We connect to develop leading technologies that enable the world’s transition to renewable energy - and we stay connected to grow as people and professionals. As a company, NKT connects a greener world with high-quality power cable technology and takes centre stage as the world moves towards green energy. NKT designs, manufactures and installs low-, medium

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