Senior Legal Counsel It

Senior Legal Counsel IT

**Date**:Sep 16, 2024

**Location**: Levallois, Ile-de-France, FR

**Company**:OP Mobility

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution

Plastic Omnium is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €9.5 billion economic revenue in 2022, a global network of 150 plants and 43 R&D centers, Plastic Omnium relies on its 40,500 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

**Job Overview**

The Legal Counsel IT is a middle-level counsel and reports directly to a Group Legal Manager in the Group Legal Operations Team of Plastic Omnium.

Under the supervision of the Global Legal Corporate VP, the Legal Counsel IT:

- Assist Purchasing IS&IT and operational Digital & IS teams, in the drafting, revising, and negotiating contracts with software editors, IT services suppliers.
- Calls for tender: analysis of calls for tender, monitoring and management of legal negotiations, preparation of contractual documents, support for teams.
- Contribute to the synthesis of operational legal issues, commercial transactions, intellectual property and data that arise for Plastic Omnium.
- Assist in a way that Plastic Omnium always operates within the law.
- Facilitate business strategies development by providing options and clarity under the law
- Limit legal and contractual risk exposure (Pre-litigation and litigation : case management and monitoring)

**Primary Responsibilities and Activities**

Under the supervision of the VP Global Legal Corporate, the Legal Counsel IS/IT:

- Address in French and English legal and contractual risks, covering all the traditional areas of the function of a Legal Counsel:

- Contracts in French & English, Partnerships.
- Advise and recommendation on matters related to Competition/Commercial Law - Intellectual Property - Litigation & Dispute Resolution - Bankruptcy Laws
- Position yourself as a Business Partner of Digital & IS function in order to contribute to the strategic objectives and decisions, by providing high-quality, proactive, business-oriented legal support.
- Assist proactively in the implementation of the legal documentation, in monitoring internal policies and in the development of legal awareness within the Plastic Omnium Digital & IS function:

- Review and draft standard documents, templates & internal policies in French and English
- Define and conduct training in French and English in order to implement internal policies and develop legal awareness.
- Develop and continuously improve knowledge and expertise in key areas of law that are central to the achievement Digital&IS strategy.
- Be a team member and a project manager:

- Interact constantly as a team player with the reporting Group Legal Manager and the Legal Operations Team to be fully aligned with the Group Legal Department strategy.
- Analyse the tools at the disposal of the business stakeholders, propose updates, improvements, tools (templates, memos, trainings, archiving)

**Primary Work Arrangements**- This position is part of the Group Legal Group.-
- He/she reports directly to the Global Legal Corporate VP, based in Levallois-Perret (France, 92) and functionally to Director of Digital Transformation Office.

**Background and requiered skills**
- Master’s degree in IT Law or Business law (commercial, contract, international) from a reputed Law university
- A LL.M or a business school diploma is a plus.
- 5-7 years of experience in a law firm specialized in IT Law or in the legal department of an international company of their IT and digital Sector.
- Knowledge of Agile, SAFe methods and Cloud solutions
- Experience in France. Experience abroad is a plus.
- Fluency in English and French, verbally & in writing.
- Understanding and exposure to a multi-cultural working environment
- Organized, team spirit, high integrity & ethical values, excellent communication skills
- Acquisition of “Business” and strategic mindset and negotiator.