Juriste acheteur au sein de la Direction Achats, exécutant la sécurité juridique et économiques des achats. Accompagner les services dans leurs projets d’achats et gérer les difficultés d’exécution.
About the role
- Legal Counsel managing end-to-end dispute resolution and compliance in Germany for a fast-growing digital bank. Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external parties while ensuring legal adherence.
Responsibilities
- Lead dispute resolution in Germany (end-to-end) : Manage pre-litigation claims, litigation, and regulatory disputes – driving timely, fair, and commercially sound outcomes.
- Set strategy, steer escalations, and manage external counsels : Assess risk/exposure, define resolution paths (settlement/remediation/defense), and oversee external counsels, proceedings, budgets, and documentation quality.
- Authorities and dispute bodies : Coordinate dispute-related communications and responses to supervisory inquiries, ensuring robust governance and an auditable record.
- Dispute prevention : Identify root causes and trends and partner with Operations/Product to reduce recurrence and improve customer outcomes.
- Regulatory & governance support : Advise on German/EU banking, consumer protection, and conduct requirements; contribute to policies and controls.
- Contracts & outsourcing : Draft/review key vendor and outsourcing agreements with appropriate risk allocation and compliance standards.
- Customer documentation : Review and improve customer-facing terms, disclosures, and complaint processes.
- Data protection (GDPR) : Support dispute-related data handling and rights requests in coordination with privacy stakeholders.
- Training & enablement: Deliver practical guidance and short trainings for product and customer support teams.
Requirements
- Education: Law degree from a recognized university; qualified lawyer in Germany (Volljurist/in (m/w/d)) or business lawyer (Wirtschaftsjurist/in, LL.B./LL.M. (m/w/d)) preferred.
- Experience: 3+ years’ relevant experience in an in-house and/or law firm role, ideally within dispute resolution, litigation, financial services, consumer law, or regulated environments.
- Legal knowledge: Familiarity with German civil procedure and dispute handling; strong understanding of consumer protection principles and regulatory expectations relevant to banking/financial services; working knowledge of GDPR.
- Skills: Strong legal analysis, clear drafting, confident stakeholder management, and pragmatic risk-based decision-making; ability to prioritize under time pressure and manage multiple active matters.
- Communication: Able to translate legal risk into actionable guidance for non-legal teams; calm and constructive approach in contentious situations.
- Languages: German and English language skills at professional working proficiency.
Benefits
- Pan-European Legal team: The opportunity to join our Szczecin legal team be part of the Group's legal department of lawyers based across Europe.
- Hybrid working model: A flexible setup combining time in our modern Szczecin office with working from home.
- People & culture in Szczecin: Be part of a collaborative, hands-on Szczecin team with short decision paths and a strong ownership culture.
- Modern ways of working: A pragmatic, fast-paced environment with efficient processes and a strong focus on automation and scalable solutions.
- Growth and development: Exposure to a broad range of banking/legal topics with room to expand your in-house toolkit.
- Scale-up opportunity for your career: Join a fast-growing bank where the legal function is evolving alongside the business – offering clear opportunities to take on broader responsibilities, lead initiatives, and grow your scope as we expand across products and European markets.
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