Hybrid Legal Counsel

at Essity

• Job title: Legal Counsel
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hamburg, Germany

About the role

• Legal Counsel for Health and Medical Solutions responsible for contracts and legal guidance at Essity. Offering hybrid work model with flexible hours and various employee benefits.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts in German and English for different aspects of the MedTech business, such as e.g. cooperation with material and product suppliers and with clinical, technical and regulatory service providers
• Providing legal guidance to the business in innovation projects, launch support and product and brand management
• Conducting legal analysis and legal risk analysis in multiple jurisdictions and facilitating appropriate coverage with a focus on marketing and advertising law and unfair competition law , both for own products and brands and for contentious matters with competition
• Converting legal analysis into legal opinions and ensuring deployment of conclusions within the necessary business processes
• Ensuring transparency and standard setting in the business by contributing to building and maintaining compliant internal processes and IT based routines
• Further developing the close cooperation with internal functions such as the IP, Sourcing, Quality, Clinical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs departments, as well as Product Management and Marketing

Requirements

• Successfully (above average; in case of Germany “vollbefriedigend”) completed legal studies in a major European jurisdiction
• Business fluent (written and spoken) in German and English, with mother tongue skills in German or English being a plus. Any other major European language is also a plus
• Specialization in (unfair) competition law and/or medical devices / medicinal products law
• 1-4 years of experience as an external counsel in an international business law firm or in an in-house legal department in the MedTech / Pharma sector
• Solution-oriented and cooperative mindset
• Eagerness to learn and grow
• Ability to navigate through a matrix organisation with multiple stakeholders

Benefits

• Compensation above tariff, yearly special payment, bonus, annual salary adjustment process, pension schemes, anniversary bonus, child allowance, Corporate Benefits & other employee benefits
• Hybrid working model, flexible working hours, overtime compensation, 39h week, 30 days of vacation plus additional balance days, lifetime working time account
• Structured onboarding, training opportunities such as digital learning platform, coaching & mentoring as possible part of individual development plan, participation in professional conferences and fairs
• Discounted fitness membership, Urban Sports Club, Lease-a-bike, health and well-being month, Walk-and-Talk Meetings, nilo.health & mindfulness courses, "PME Familienservice", employee surveys
• People culture, communities & networks, co-working spaces, leadership guidelines, canteen
• Public transport allowance, bicycle parking, free car parking, e-charging stations