Senior Legal Counsel IS/IT

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.

Plastic Omnium Module division develops, assembles and delivers complex, just-in-sequence modules for mass production. World leader, HBPO, now 100% Plastic Omnium, specializes in highly integrated modules, including front-end & cockpit modules, center consoles and charge lid modules. Through new BEVs architectures, it constantly develops new modules with customized solutions.

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

Job Overview

 

The Legal Counsel IS/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 Group Legal Manager. The Legal Counsel IS/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 Group Legal Manager, 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 Group Legal Manager, 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.
• 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 & eth