Commercial Legal Counsel France

About The Role
As Senior Legal Counsel, you'll be a key strategic partner to our French operations, reporting to the France, Spain & UK Cluster Lead Counsel. In this high-impact role, you'll provide both commercial and corporate legal expertise to support ABB E-Mobility's growth in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle charging market.

What You'll Do
Commercial & Contract Management

• Draft, review and negotiate complex domestic and international agreements including EV charger sales, maintenance contracts, SaaS services, frame agreements, consortium deals, and NDAs
• Navigate French public procurement processes and tender responses
• Provide pragmatic, business-focused legal guidance on commercial opportunities

Strategic Legal Leadership

• Deliver strategic legal counsel to business leaders across ABB E-Mobility France
• Manage legal resources and budgets to ensure efficient, high-quality operations
• Coordinate external legal support when needed, acting as the central point of contact
• Anticipate business needs and implement proactive legal processes and tools

Corporate & Compliance

• Provide corporate legal support suitable for our dynamic, growing entity
• Ensure product compliance meets all regulatory requirements
• Oversee HSE compliance and labor relations matters
• Lead government investigations and regulatory interactions
• Direct crisis management and incident response

What You Bring
Qualifications & Experience

• Juris Doctor with civil law qualification and/or LLM
• Admitted to practice law in France
• 10+ years post-qualification experience combining top-tier international law firm practice and in-house roles with global companies
• Excellent written and spoken English; additional European language a strong plus
• Deep expertise in international commercial law and preferably corporate law
• Working knowledge of key international conventions, public procurement, and antitrust law
• Proven success leading and developing high-performing legal teams

Your profile
We're looking for someone who is exceptionally self-motivated with uncompromising ethical standards. You don't accept mediocrity and consistently strive for excellence. You genuinely care about developing people and their well-being. You're a natural collaborator with strong stakeholder management skills, executive presence, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. You remain calm and solution-focused under pressure.

What's in it for you?
Work with the best specialists in their field, in a diverse environment with unparalleled global reach. Feel inspired by our fast-growth. You will have the accountability to own your part in enabling a future of sustainable and efficient mobility. You can also count on a competitive compensation package in line with your capabilities and experience. Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities are at the core of what we do. We celebrate different experiences and perspectives, and we aim to empower everyone in the creation of sustainable solutions for people all over the world. Our individual differences make us successful.

About ABB E-mobility
ABB E-mobility is a world leader in EV charging technology and a partner of choice for the world's biggest electric vehicle OEMs and nationwide EV charging network operators. With a strong R&D pipeline, our robust product portfolio of innovative holistic solutions – from grid to charge point and domestic installations to large fleet depots – means we are actively enabling the future of e-mobility, not just predicting it.